Double honour for academics

Two Edinburgh academics are among the 42 to be elected to the British Academy for 2013.

The new Fellows are David Fergusson, Professor of Divinity, and Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education Policy.

The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the promotion of the humanities and social sciences.

Highly distinguished

The Academy elected the new Fellows from 18 UK universities, each of them a highly distinguished academic, recognised for their outstanding research and work across the humanities and social sciences.

"Our new Fellows are world-class experts and can play a vital role in sustaining the Academy’s activities."

Wealth of experience

Professor Fergusson is the Principal of New College. Prior to his time at Edinburgh, he worked for several years as a parish minister in the Church of Scotland and was Professor of Systematic Theology in the University of Aberdeen.

Later this year, he will deliver the Birks Lectures at McGill University, Montreal, and the Hulsean sermon at the University of Cambridge.

Professor Paterson is a Professor of Education Policy in the School of Social and Political Science.

Since the late 1980s he has worked on topics in the fields of educational sociology, education policy and Scottish politics.

Established by Royal Charter in 1902, the British Academy is an independent, self-governing body of more than 900 Fellows.