July 2013

Dr Martyn Pickersgill

July 24, 2013

Dr Martyn Pickersgill, former IASH Newby Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, has been awarded funds from the Leverhulme Trust for a new 2-year project on ‘Neuroscience and Family Life: The Brain in Policy and Practice’. Martyn is currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics in the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Dr. Marco Bernini

July 8, 2013

Following his Fellowship at IASH, Dr. Marco Bernini (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-12) has taken up a two-year Junior Research Fellowship in the English Studies Department at the University of Durham (2012-2014). His co-authored book on Literature and Cognitive Science has just been published (in italian) (original title: Letteratura e Scienze Cognitive) – see: