Professor Barbara Borg has won the prestigious Getty Fellowship enabling her to advance her studies of art and archaeology of the Greeks and Romans and Dr Matthew Wright has been awarded the Blegen Research Fellow at Vassar College in the US.
After successfully completing the AHRC-funded project, De-placing Future Memory, Dr Elena Isayev has won follow-on funding from the AHRC for further exploration of the links between memory and place through an interdisciplinary project involving creative artists and scholars.
The long-term Galen project run by Professor Christopher Gill, Professor John Wilkins and Dr Julius Rocca, continues to attract funding from a wide variety of sources. The research covers ancient medicine, with particular reference to nutrition and preventative medicine, anatomy and psychology as well as translation and editing of Galen’s texts. Those involved are also publishing a number of books on the subject.