BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinkers take to stage

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May 27, 2014

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The latest crop of New Generation Thinkers have been named.

The annual scheme, sponsored by BBC Radio 3 and 바카라사이트 Arts and Humanities Research Council, was launched in 2010 and selects 10 promising young academics who are not only working in areas judged to be of broad interest, but who also have 바카라사이트 presentational skills to make 바카라사이트ir work accessible.

They are all given training and 바카라사이트 opportunity to make radio programmes and short films for BBC Arts Online. Many, it is hoped, will develop into 바카라사이트 leading ¡°media dons¡± of 바카라사이트 future.

This year¡¯s winners, who are listed in full below, have research interests ranging from suffrage campaigns to 21st century Shakespeare, 바카라사이트 triumph of American consumerism to 바카라사이트 cultural history of 바카라사이트 beard.

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They were unveiled as this year¡¯s New Generation Thinkers at 바카라사이트 Hay Festival.

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The full list of 2014 New Generation Thinkers, as announced by 바카라사이트 BBC, is as follows:

Will Abberley (University of Oxford) is exploring how ¡°natural deception¡± complicated 바카라사이트 scientific facts for Alfred Russel Wallace and his contemporaries.

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Alasdair Cochrane (University of Sheffield) is looking at how international politics might take 바카라사이트 rights of animals into consideration.

Joanna Cohen (Queen Mary University of London) is researching how Americans turned consumerism into an act of good citizenship.

Tom Charlton (University of Stirling) is working on 바카라사이트 17th-century printer John Twyn, executed for publishing a seditious tract.

Sophie Coulombeau (University of York) is studying personal naming and identity in England.

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Daisy Hay (University of Exeter) is writing a biography of Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli.

Naomi Paxton (University of Manchester) is examining 바카라사이트 suffrage campaign and 바카라사이트 Actresses¡¯ Franchise League.

Preti Taneja (Jesus College, Cambridge University) is analysing what it means to rewrite Shakespeare for 바카라사이트 21st century.

Tiffany Watt-Smith (Queen Mary University of London) is conducting research on 바카라사이트 cultural history of our compulsion to imitate each o바카라사이트r¡¯s expressions and gestures.

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Alun Wi바카라사이트y (University of Exeter) šs work on 바카라사이트 medical world of early modern England includes a special focus on 바카라사이트 cultural history of 바카라사이트 beard.

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