Research funding success for colleagues in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Comparative Literature\u00a0has resulted in grants of approximately \u00a3361,000 for academic research.<\/p>\n
Professor Jon Williamson<\/a>,\u00a0Professor of Reasoning, Inference and Scientific Method, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Project Grant for his project \u2018Evidential pluralism in the social sciences\u2019, which will receive \u00a3244,000 for work in the philosophy of the social sciences<\/p>\n Dr Anna Katharina Schaffner,<\/a> Reader in Comparative Literature and Medical Humanities, has been awarded a\u00a0Leverhulme Research Fellowship for Self-Improvement: A History<\/em>. Her award of \u00a348,000 will support the writing of a book charting the long history of the idea of the improvable self from antiquity to the present. The book is contracted for publication with Yale University Press.<\/p>\n Dr Katja Haustein<\/a>, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship totalling \u00a346,247 for her project,\u00a0Alone With Others: A Literary History of Tact in the Twentieth Century<\/em>.<\/p>\n Dr Graeme A Forbes<\/a>, Lecturer\u00a0in Philosophy, has been awarded a Mind Association Research Fellowship, securing \u00a323,000 for work on his monograph,\u00a0The times they are a-changin’<\/em>.<\/p>\n This announcement follows news that Professor Amalia Arvaniti in the Department of English Language and Linguistics\u00a0has been awarded a grant of almost \u20ac2.5m<\/a> to investigate the role of the tone of voice in communication and ways it might influence conversations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Research funding success for colleagues in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Comparative Literature\u00a0has resulted in grants of approximately \u00a3361,000 for academic research. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52167,"featured_media":9482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135860,18583,124,18570],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10466,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}