EHBEA award: Dr Thom Scott-Phillips

Dr Thom Scott-Phillips has been awarded the European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association’s New Investigator Award.

Dr Scott-Phillips is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow with the Language Evolution and Computation Research Unit at the University’s School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences.

The European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association is an interdisciplinary society that supports the activities of European researchers with an interest in evolutionary accounts of cognition, behaviour and society.

Winners of its New Investigator Award are offered a plenary slot at its annual conference in Gieben, Germany.

Dr Scott-Phillips’ general research interests cover the evolution of language.

He is specifically concerned with the evolution of pragmatics, and more generally the evolution of the capacity for inferential communication.

Between 2009 and 2010, Dr Scott-Phillips held an ESRC Early Career Fellowship.

In March 2008, he was a joint winner of the inaugural Hurford Prize for the best student presentation at the International Conference on the Evolution of Language.