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Professor David Wyn Jones (Cardiff University) is acting as advisor to the British Library for its Beethoven Exhibition in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth. The exhibition will run from December 2020 to April 2021. Professor Jones will also give a public lecture at the British Library... Read More

Professor Peter Excell, Professor Emeritus of Communications in the Faculty of Arts, Science & Technology, Wrexham Glyndŵr University and Maxine Penlington OBE join 41 other new Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales. Both Fellows have spoken about how honoured they are to join the Society’s Fellowship. ... Read More

The co-discover of the pulsar and a BBC Reith lecturer are among those admitted to the  Fellowship of the Learned Society of Wales (LSW), the national academy for arts and sciences. Physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars whilst a graduate student, and historian Professor Margaret MacMillan... Read More

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 who a play a significant role in Welsh public life. A full list of the n... Read More

It is with much regret that we report the death of Sir John Houghton, one of the founding Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales. Sir John, from Dyserth, played leading roles in the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group, the Hadley Centre for Climate Predictio... Read More

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 University Press, 2018). The prize is... Read More

Professor Roger Falconer, Emeritus Professor of Water Management School of Engineering, Cardiff University and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, was elected a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in the CAE's biennial election in November 2019. Roger was elected to the CAE in recogniti... Read More