Congratulations to Dr. Martyn Pickersgill (Newby Trust Fellow 2010-11) whose book, co-edited with Ira Van Keulen, Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences (Emerald, 2011) has been shortlisted for the British Sociological Association’s Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize 2012. Martyn is currently Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Biomedical Ethics at the Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh. In November 2011 he became one of the first members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy of Scotland.
