Dr. Lorna Burns (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-11) has recently been appointed to a lectureship in Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of St. Andrews. Many congratulations to her.

Dr. Peta Mitchell‘s book Contagious Metaphor will be published by Continuum in the autumn of 2012. Details at http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=157192&Subject2Id=1024. Peta was a Visiting Research Fellow at IASH in 2009.

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Day-O’Connell (Visiting Research Fellow, 2009 and 2010) who was awarded tenure at Knox College in Spring 2011

Professor Russell Goodman (Nominated Fellow, 2009) has sent news of his some of his recent/forthcoming publications:

• forthcoming papers on “Putnam and Pluralism” in Reading Putnam, ed. Maria Baghramian, Routledge, 2012.
• “Encountering Cavell: The Education of a Grownup” in Saito and Standish, Cavell and the Education of Grownups, Fordham UP 2012
• “Emerson and Non-western Thought” in Saito and Standish, Walden in Tokyo, forthcoming, Fordham UP

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.

Dr. Simon Macdonald (Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-12) has been appointed to a Teaching Fellowship in Early Modern European History at UCL for 2012-13