FBA for two King’s professors

FBA for two King’s professors - 23 Jul 2010, PR 162/10 Anke Ehlers, Professor of Experimental Psychopathology and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, and Shalom Lappin, Professor of Computational Linguistics in the Department of Philosophy, have been elected Fellows of the British Academy. The British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, inspires, recognises and supports excellence the humanities and social sciences throughout the UK and internationally. Each year up to 38 outstanding UK-based scholars are elected to the Fellowship. The prime criterion for election is academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication. Professor Ehlers trained as a clinical psychologist in Germany and the United States. Following research appointments in both countries and a chair in clinical psychology at the University of Göttingen, Germany, she came to the UK in 1993 as a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Oxford University Department of Psychiatry. She joined the Institute of Psychiatry in 2000 and is also is also the Research Director of the Maudsley Hospital's Centre for Anxiety Disorders and Trauma.