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Publish date:24 Mar 2026
The British Academy launches new Innovation Fellowships bringing sustainability expertise to Whitehall
The British Academy has announced a new cohort of Innovation Fellowships that will bring cutting‑edge social science and humanities (SHAPE) research expertise to the core of government policy making.
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Publish date:5 Jan 2026
Leading Humanities and Social Sciences scholars recognised in 2026 King’s New Year Honours
Two Fellows of the British Academy have been recognised in the King’s New Year’s Honours 2026.
The Age of Self?
12 Feb – 28 May 2026
Explore the meaning of identity in a rapidly changing world where individuality, belonging and connection is being reshaped by global shifts, digital life and social change. Join leading researchers, performers and creators as they examine how culture and technology shape our understanding of ourselves and others.
Talk and activity Free
Beyond barriers: disability through arts
8 Apr 2026, London
How can art, performance and creativity deepen understanding of the realities of disability, and create powerful ways to express lived experiences? Join us for an exhibition and discussion that explore disability stories and how we can challenge disability injustice.
In conversation Free
Masculinities on stage and screen
16 Apr 2026, London
What do the characters on our screens and stages reveal about masculinity today? And what stories should be told next? Examine the theme of masculinity in film, television, and theatre with our panel of leading researchers and creatives.
Lecture Free
Child soldiers: coming of age in atrocity
21 Apr 2026, Belfast
This lecture investigates how dominant portrayals may obscure the complex pressures, coercive environments, and constrained choices that shape children’s trajectories into armed groups and considers how a more refined understanding might strengthen prevention, reintegration, and justice processes for the harms child soldiers endure and at times bring upon others.
Talk and performance Free
How languages make us: explorations through performance
21 Apr 2026, London
How do languages shape our sense of self and our communities? Uncover the connections between language, identity, and society with a vibrant evening of talks, poetry, and songs performed in multiple languages.
Festival In conversation
Sick of It: The Global Fight for Women’s Health
23 Apr 2026, Cambridge
Join Sophie Harman to explore why this crisis persists, how women’s bodies have become political battlegrounds, and what governments – and all of us – can do to help fix it.
Festival In conversation
Russia’s Church from Pagans to Putin
24 Apr 2026, Cambridge
Join Lucy Ash as she exposes the underbelly of politics, state security and big money, and their unholy alliance with Orthodoxy in the dystopia of twenty-first-century Russia.
Lecture Free
Natural language and artificial intelligence
8 May 2026, London
Large Language Models have shown remarkable abilities in natural language processing, tempting many to speak of them as if they used and understood language as humans do. However, doing so overlooks the distinction between the structural systems that support meaning and reasoning and the mechanisms for predicting what will come next in a text on the basis of similar passages in the vast amount of training data that LLMs encode.
Conference Free
Voices of resilience: addressing the psychosocial needs of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK
12 – 13 May 2026, Cardiff
This multidisciplinary conference will examine the psychological and social challenges faced by asylum seekers and refugees across a range of areas including, destitution, poverty, detention, dispersal, accommodation, employment, education, mental health and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Source: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/
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