Promising researchers recognised

Four University researchers have been made fellows in a prestigious awards scheme that identifies and supports talented international academics at the early stages of their career.

The four early-career researchers are among 41 successful applicants of this year’s round of Newton International Fellowships.

The fellowships, awarded jointly by the British Academy and the Royal Society, are part of a £29 million pound government initiative to ensure that the UK engages with the world’s most promising academics.

Edinburgh awardees

The four Edinburgh recipients of the fellowships are:

• Olga Feher, ‘The effect of context biases on the cultural evolution of language”
• Alberto Godioli, ‘A grammar of laughter in the realist novel: The reception of English models from Balzac to Gadda’
• Annie Priyadarshini Louis, ‘Bringing structure and coherence to statistical machine translation’
• Yuliya Zabyelina, ‘Corruption and “negative peace” in post-conflict situations: the cases of Kosovo and Chechnya’.

The awardees receive support in the region of £100,000 each for a two-year fellowship in the UK.