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We are proud to announce that Professor Asifa Majid has been made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2024 in recognition of her distinguished contributions to cognitive sciences.

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Professor Majid’s research focuses on the relationship between language, culture, and cognition, and aims to understand which aspects of our cognition are fundamentally shared between people, and which are dictated more by language and culture.

Professor Majid was one of nine academics from the University of Oxford honoured by the British Academy this year. The list of 86 new Fellows also included academics from across the globe, with 52 academics from universities in the UK, and another 30 world-wide, including from the US, Canada, South Africa, Japan, China, Australia, Taiwan, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey and Israel.

Professor Majid was the only Fellow to be elected from Oxford’s Medical Sciences Division this year!

In her welcome to the new fellows, President of the British Academy, Professor Julia Black said: “We are delighted to welcome this year’s cohort of Fellows, and I offer my warmest congratulations to each and every one. Since the Academy was created in 1902, our Fellows have been the lifeblood of the organisation, representing the very best of our disciplines – and we would not have the impact we have without their expertise, time and energy. I very much look forward to working closely with our new Fellows; the breadth and depth of their expertise adds so much to the Academy”.

Huge congratulations to Asifa!

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The British Academy welcomes 86 new Fellows in 2024

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