Affiliates
The IAS administers the award of three annual Sir Derman Christopherson/Sir James Knott Foundation Fellowships on behalf of the University’s Research Committee.
These allow gifted Durham University researchers a term’s leave from teaching, with recipients automatically granted IAS Affiliate status.
Dr Simon J James English Studies
Expanding from his base as a literary critic, Simon J. James drew on perspectives from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience and other disciplines to theorise how narrative imagines its own possible futures. The focus of his study was Victorian fiction, in particular the first-person narratives of Charles Dickens. The Fellowship allowed Simon to develop the book, Maps Of Utopia: H. G. Wells, Modernity and the End of Culture, to organise a day conference, and to prepare papers for two conferences on Dickens.
Professor Holger Maehle Philosophy
Holger Maehle’s project ‘Historicizing Stem Cell Research: the emergence of the stem cell concept around 1900’ determined to consider how the field of stem cell research developed over time, a history which has remained virtually unexplored. Through examining original sources in Berlin’s State Library, Maehle explored how the origins of the modern, 'dual' research strands of embryonic and adult stem cell research unfolded between the 1870s and World War I, when the concept of stem cells was elaborated in studies of embryology, the blood-forming system, and in cancer research. The resulting paper on ‘Ambiguous Cells: The Emergence of the Stem Cell Concept in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries’ was published in the Notes & Records of the Royal Society.
Professor Yaoling Niu Earth Sciences
As an affiliated IAS Fellow of 2010-2011, Professor Yaoling Niu succeeded in collecting geological data in "testing the hypothesis of continental collision zones as primary sites for new crustal growth" with the initial results presented at the 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union. The comprehensive synthesis is currently being finalized. This represents a significant advance on one of the fundamental Earth problems. Yaoling has also published several important works related to crustal growth in the context of the origin and evolution of the Greater Tibetan Plateau and a wholly new understanding on Earth's mantle processes related to volcanic eruptions on volcanic islands throughout the world ocean basins.
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