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Learned Society of Wales Welcomes 45 New Fellows

The Learned Society of Wales is delighted to welcome a further 45 academics, researchers, and professionals to its Fellowship.

The new Fellows include academics from numerous Welsh and UK higher education institutions as well as individuals w... Read More

Professor Robin Stowell FLSW Awarded Prize for Music Encyclopedia

Robin Stowell, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Music, Cardiff University and one of the Society’s Fellows has won, along with his co-editor Colin Lawson, the C.B. Oldman prize, 2019, for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music (Cambridge Univers... Read More

Confronting Covid-19: UKRI seeks ideas

UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) has invited proposals for short-term projects to address the Covid-19 crisis.

Projects that address the health, social, economic and environmental impacts of the outbreak will all be considered for support.... Read More

POSTPONED: Through the Language Prism

We have today taken the difficult decision to postpone our bi / multilingualism symposium, ‘Through the Language Prism’.

This is in response to the Covid-19 outbreak.

We have worked for... Read More

Professor John Wyn Owen: Obituary

It was with great sadness that we reported the death last month of Professor John Wyn Owen CB FRSPH FLSW, a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

The following obituary has been written by Sir Emyr Jones Parry: