Prof’s talk at prestige academy event
GEOFF Beattie, professor of psychology at Edge Hill University, has been invited to give a talk at the British Academy Summer Showcase on the evening of June 21.
The aim of the event is to allow the British Academy “to present the best new humanities and social sciences research to a wide public audience”’
The academy’s annual summer soirée will act as a private view of the showcase and will feature exclusive talks from fellows and friends of the academy.
The soirée is for an invited VIP audience including parliamentarians, directors of cultural institutions, press, funding bodies, vice-chancellors and British Academy Fellows.
Among the other speakers at the summer soirée are the economist Baron Nick Stern; the philosopher Baroness Onora O’Neill; Dame Lynne Brindley, Master of Pembroke College Oxford and former chief executive of the British Library; Darren Henley, chief executive of Arts Council England and broadcaster Melvin Bragg.
Prof Beattie’s talk will be on “Why aren’t climate change messages getting through?”
Prof Beattie also spoke at a dinner at the British Academy on May 16 to showcase its Small Research Grant scheme to potential major donors in order to increase provision for the scheme.
He spoke with three other former grant holders – a historian from Cambridge, a professor of international relations from SOAS and a philosopher from Liverpool – to highlight the breadth of research excellence funded by this particular scheme.
Prof Beattie said: “I am absolutely delighted to be invited to present my work at these distinguished gatherings and to represent Edge Hill University at these events.”
Prof Geoff Beattie is professor of psychology at Edge Hill. His research focuses primarily on embodied cognition/multi-modal communication and applied social psychology.
A collaborative event between The British Academy and Edge Hill University on June 12, will feature Fellow of the British Academy Prof Graham Wallas and Prof Anne Phillips discussing gender equality and modernity.
In addition, a British Academy Visiting Fellowship will bring human rights, social policy and criminology scholar Prof Witold Klaus, head of the department of criminology at the Polish Academy of Sciences, to Edge Hill University for three months this year to further his research work.
The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the UK’s national body for the humanities and social sciences – the study of peoples, cultures and societies, past, present and future.