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Going for a walk with your children may be one of the best ways of getting them to talk with you. This article from the National Geographic features a contribution from Professor Merideth Gattis FSLW. Regardless of where you’re talking to your child, good conversations begin with strong connections. “Thereâ€... Read More

Routledge has just published this book which features a contribution from one of our Fellows, Professor Terry Threadgold FLSW: Women in Social Semiotics and SFL: Making a Difference. 'This book showcases interviews with nine women who have made pioneering contributions to social semiotics and systemic functiona... Read More

Professor Geraint F. Lewis FLSW has recently published this book, co-written with Chris Ferrie: 'Where Did the Universe Come From? And Other Cosmic Questions: Our Universe, from the Quantum to the Cosmos' This is a book for non-scientists about both cosmology (the study of the origin and eventual fate of the uni... Read More

Seventy Years Of Struggle And Achievement: Life Stories Of Ethnic Minority Women Living In Wales, co-edited by Professor Meena Upadhyaya, is published in October and available now for pre-order. It tells the life stories of forty Black Asian Minority Ethnic women who were finalists for or winners of the Ethnic Mi... Read More

Congratulations to Professor Ralph A. Griffiths FLSW, one of our Fellows. Professor Ralph A. Griffiths is awarded the 2021 Derek Allen Prize for his outstanding contribution to the field of the late medieval history of Wales and England. Ralph A. Griffiths is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History at Swansea Un... Read More

Sir Stephen O’Rahilly, one of our Fellows, is a co-winner of the Royal Society’s Croonian Medal and Lecture 2022 for his work on the control of human body weight. The Croonian Medal and Lecture 2022 is awarded to Sir Stephen O'Rahilly FMedSci FRS and Professor Sadaf Farooqi FMedSci FRS ... Read More

Congratulations to Dame Jocelyn Burnell, one of our Honorary Fellows, who has been awarded the Copley Medal 2021 by the Royal Society for her work on the discovery of pulsars. Dame Jocelyn said: “I am delighted to be the recipient of this year’s Copley Medal, a prize which has been awarded to so many incre... Read More