British Academy Annual Report 2012/13

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BRITISH ACADEMYANNUAL REPORT 2012/13

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OVERVIEW

Foreword by the President 2Officers and Council Members 4Introduction by the Chief Executive and Secretary 6Purpose, Roles and Priorities 8Financial results at a glance 9

REVIEW OF THE YEAR

Research ProgrammesSmall Research Grants 11Research Posts 13Academy Research Projects 15Private Funds 16

International EngagementInternational Policy 19Research Funding and Facilitation 21British Academy Sponsored Institutes and Societies 22

Policy EngagementResearch and Higher Education Policy 25Languages and Quantitative Skills 26Public Policy 28

Communications and External RelationsMedia and Communications 31Public Events 32Prizes and Medals 34Publications 35

Fellowship Programmes 36Elections at the AGM 37

Philanthropic Support 39

Governance and Management 42

FINANCIAL REVIEW

Financial Review of the Year 2012/13 45Statement of Council’s Responsibilities 48Independent Auditor’s Report 49Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities 50Consolidated Balance Sheet 51Consolidated Cash Flow Statement 52Notes to the Accounts 53Income and Expenditure Account 66

Statutory Information 67



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FOREWORDBY THE PRESIDENT

This Annual Report shows evidence of the wide-ranging work carried out and supported by theBritish Academy on behalf of the humanities andsocial sciences. The Academy’s activities exist for thepublic benefit and it is pleasing to report on theways that they have steadily grown, with morepartners and with a wider range of external support,over the past year. Our annual turnover has againexceeded £30 million.

International academic mobility is of hugeimportance to the UK, and the Academy hasexpressed concerns over the effects of governmentimmigration policy on academics and students –concerns which are widely shared across the highereducation sector. The way in which this policy isapplied could adversely affect the ability ofuniversities to attract the staff and students that theyneed to maintain their competitiveness and theUK’s international standing. As regards students, theAcademy’s repeated call for student numbers to beexcluded from the official immigration statisticsreceived strong support when at the end of Januarythe chairs of five parliamentary committees wroteto the Prime Minister to urge that overseas studentsshould be removed from the official immigrationtargets. As regards staff, the Academy, along with theother national academies, is a ‘competent body’,which advises government on highly talentedacademics seeking permits for entry to, andcontinued stay in, the UK. None of this holds usback from criticising official policies and practicesin this area.

UK universities are major participants in Europeanresearch funding programmes, and plans for thenext round, ‘Horizon 2020’, are therefore of greatinterest. Following the event at which wewelcomed the EU Commissioner for Research tothe Academy in 2011, we have continued to makethe case for a sustained level of funding for researchwithin the European budget, including for work inthe humanities and social sciences.

The Academy is keeping a close eye on the impactof the rise in undergraduate tuition fees in Englandon levels of enrolment and participation. It is toosoon to be sure of major trends. There are areas ofconcern, particularly the study of foreign languages.On the other hand, humanities and social sciencesremain extremely popular, with some 40% ofundergraduate students pursuing a course in them.

Higher undergraduate fees also raise questionsabout access to postgraduate study, and theAcademy was among the first to raise concerns here.This remains a worry, especially since governmentfunding is constrained. But several broadly cost-neutral possibilities have been suggested and thesedeserve urgent consideration.

The development of open access publication has raised particular concerns for those working in humanities and social science research. TheAcademy has taken a lead in drawing attention tosome of the challenges and shortcomings ingovernment policy in this area, and what needs tobe done to ensure a stable transition. The Academyhas itself taken an open access approach to the newJournal of the British Academy and to the longstandingMemoirs of Fellows.

There has been rapid growth in engagement inpublic policy. Here the Academy does not seek toact as an advocate for any particular position (it iscertainly not a think-tank). It seeks to be a source of expert advice, drawing on its distinguishedFellowship and shedding impartial light on majorissues of the day. In the course of the year theAcademy has released studies on HumanEnhancement and Work (in partnership with the other national academies), on Human Rights and the Constitution, on League Tables in education, and on the constitutional future of the UK. Suchwork is a clear demonstration of the public value of the humanities and social sciences and thecommitment of scholars to contribute tostrengthening policy making.

Readers may be aware of recent debate over a BBC programme on North Korea. In a jointstatement with the President of the Royal Society, I expressed concerns over a cavalier approach to risk management and ethics, which raised seriousissues about the credibility and security of UKacademics working overseas when in highlysensitive circumstances. Their ability to work, studyand carry out research around the world is hugelydependent on trust and respect for their integrity,and it is vital that this trust is not undermined. Wehave followed up our joint statement throughmeetings with BBC officials, including the newDirector-General Lord Hall.

The Academy remains deeply concerned about thestate of foreign language learning in the UK and hasconducted a growing range of activities to supportand encourage language teaching, including newprizes for schools demonstrating innovativeapproaches. Two important reports were undertaken:State of the Nation (which attracted great attention)was the first of what is intended as a series ofreports identifying just where we stand in languagelearning in the UK; and the forthcoming Lost forWords is an enquiry into the use and importance oflanguages in meeting UK policy objectives ininternational relations and security.

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As I write, a major concern for the Academy ispreparation for the government spending review for2015/16. Here, research funding is the key issue forthe whole academic sector: the universities, researchcouncils and national academies. I believe that thebest strategy for us is a joint approach with oursister academies, and we have been working moreclosely than ever before with the Royal Society, theRoyal Academy of Engineering, and the Academyof Medical Sciences. In April the four academiespublished a joint statement, outlining theimportance of research for economic and socialwell-being and prosperity. We called for a stable ten-year investment framework, and for the UK to keeppace with the often much higher levels of researchinvestment of its leading competitors. It is beingfollowed by a series of meetings between thePresidents of the national academies and relevantgovernment ministers and other senior figures. TheAcademy is emphasising the importance of thehumanities and social sciences to prosperity in itsbroadest sense (social, economic and cultural),including the supply of skilled graduates, and thecontributions of these disciplines to majoreconomic sectors. While not forgetting the intrinsicvalue of research and education, it is understandablethat in the current context contributions toeconomic growth require particular emphasis.

During the year the Academy has been conductinga strategic review, examining its fundamentalpurpose, roles and strategic priorities for the nextfive years. The review has involved thoroughdiscussions within the Fellowship, led by theAcademy’s Council, and extensive consultationswith external bodies and individuals. I am grateful

to them all for their contributions. The review takes place at a difficult time. In the years ahead thecontext in which the Academy operates is certain toremain challenging, both for higher education andresearch – and also more generally.

In developing its new strategic framework, theAcademy therefore looks to provide leadership on behalf of the humanities and social sciences tohelp ensure their continued health and ability tocontribute to wider public benefit. The documentwill be presented to the Annual General Meeting of the Fellows in July.

The Academy is fortunate in receiving publicfunding, and is increasingly attracting philanthropicsupport to supplement this, for which it is verygrateful. As President, I am aware how much theAcademy relies on the work of Fellows and othersoutside the Fellowship, and particularly the electedOfficers, all of whom give often great amounts oftheir time pro bono. Their work is supported by thestaff of the Academy, led by the Directors and theChief Executive and Secretary. Having seen theirwork at first hand, I can testify to their initiative,dedication and professionalism. Without all theseforms of support, the Academy would not be thevital and successful body described in these pages.

PROFESSOR SIR ADAM ROBERTS KCMGPresident

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OFFICERS AND COUNCIL MEMBERSAS AT 31 MARCH 2013

President Professor Sir Adam Roberts KCMG *

Vice-Presidents Professor Michael Fulford CBE * Treasurer(ex-officio) Professor Dame Helen Wallace * Foreign Secretary

Professor Vicki Bruce OBE* Vice-President, Communications &External Relations

Professor Iain McLean* Vice-President, Public Policy Professor Martin Millett * Chair of BASIS Professor Nigel Vincent * Vice-President, Research & HE PolicyProfessor Chris Wickham * Publications Secretary

Vice-Presidents Professor Jonathan Bate CBE * Vice-President, Humanities(Bye-law 14) Professor Colin Crouch* Vice-President, Social Sciences

Ordinary Members Mr Robin BriggsProfessor Hugh Collins Professor Cairns Craig OBEProfessor Roy EllenProfessor Georgina Hermann OBEProfessor Carole Hillenbrand OBEProfessor Andrew LouthProfessor Linda McDowellProfessor Henrietta MooreProfessor Mary MorganProfessor Malcolm SchofieldProfessor Peter SimonsProfessor Patrick Sims-Williams Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill OBEProfessor Sarah Worthington QC

Chief Executive and Secretary Dr Robin Jackson *

Audit CommitteeChairman Professor Sir Ian Diamond

Ordinary Members Ms Jacqueline BurkeMr Ian CreaghProfessor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill OBEProfessor Sarah Worthington QC

Senior ManagementChief Executive and Secretary Dr Robin Jackson

Director of Communications & External Relations Mr Tim Brassell

Director of Finance & Corporate Services Mr Robert Hopwood

Director of Programmes Ms Vivienne Hurley

Interim Director of Development Mr Doug Thomson

Retirements during the yearThe following Officers and Council members retired in July 2012: Professor Sue Mendus (Vice-President,Social Sciences); Professor Albert Weale (Vice-President, Public Policy); Professor Timothy Besley, ProfessorSir Ian Diamond, Professor Marian Hobson, Professor John Sloboda and Professor Megan Vaughan(members of Council). Ms Jenny Mercer was Director of Development from July 2012 to January 2013.

* Member of the Management Advisory Committee

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Officers of the Academy (from top, left to right): Nigel Vincent, JonathanBate, Helen Wallace, Chris Wickham, Martin Millett, Michael Fulford, ColinCrouch, Iain McLean and Vicki Bruce.



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INTRODUCTIONBY THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE AND SECRETARY

The pages that follow reveal the rich scope of the work and activities supported by the BritishAcademy in the past year. It has been a full andvaried year, with significant achievements as well as challenges.

From the Academy’s annual turnover of some £30million, over £28 million was distributed tosupport excellence across the humanities and socialsciences. The Academy’s building, extended andrefurbished in 2011, is now better able to serveboth its own needs and those of its community, andis increasingly in demand for events organised byuniversities, learned societies and others.

The Small Research Grants scheme, happilyrestored, and now supported generously by theLeverhulme Trust, remained popular. These smalland flexible grants are clearly of great value toresearchers and can lead to disproportionatelysignificant achievements. The PostdoctoralFellowship scheme, the Academy’s flagshipprogramme, received a record number ofapplications. The standard of applicants remainsextremely high and it would be good to seeadditional resource available to support the bestyoung scholars in the UK. The third year of theMid-Career Fellowship scheme continued toattract many fascinating applications – the schemehas a distinctive emphasis on communication to abroad audience. And 50 kitemarked researchprojects continue to generate research materials ofgreat value to scholars working in a variety ofdisciplines.

These publicly funded schemes are complementedby support through a range of private funds,including the prestigious Wolfson ResearchProfessorships and Leverhulme Senior ResearchFellowships, and small awards made possible bypartners such as the Sino-British Fellowship Trust,the Sir Ernest Cassel Trust and, new this year, theSir John Cass’s Foundation. We are deeply gratefulfor their support.

International engagement has remained of highimportance within the Academy’s work. The newInternational Partnership and Mobility schemecame into operation this year, making awards toassist research collaboration between the UK andparts of the world where research links can benefit

from stimulus. The Newton InternationalFellowship scheme, now in its fifth year, remains apopular source of support, attracting applicationsfrom bright young scholars in 59 countries. A newInternational Forum series has facilitated analysis ofsalient international policy issues. Events were heldin partnership with the Chinese Academy of SocialSciences and the Australian Academy of theHumanities, together with a series of events onSouth Asian studies, and the ‘Nairobi Process’ keptup its work, including a workshop held in Ghana.Meanwhile the Academy continued to sponsor andsupport its unique network of overseas institutesthat carry out research and enable fieldwork by UKscholars across a wide range of disciplines. Some ofthem are working in very difficult locations andtheir sustained productivity is commendable.

The Academy’s work on behalf of higher educationand research in the humanities and social sciencescontinued vigorously over the year, with particularattention to postgraduate funding and open accesspublishing. In public policy there was a wideranging programme of engagement with currentissues, drawing on the expertise of Fellows andother academics. The Academy’s Policy Centrehosted a conference on developments inbehavioural economics and psychology, and lessonsfor public policy.

The Academy’s four-year programme in Languagesand Quantitative Skills continued to supportresearch and policy-related activities to address skillsneeds in these vital areas. In its second year, theprogramme featured reports on language learningand its importance, a new set of Schools LanguageAwards to reward innovation, and the first AcademyLanguage Week, bringing together events exploringand championing the learning and use of languagesin education and public life. The Academy is seekingto lead strategy to develop quantitative skills in theUK: in the course of the year it released a report,Society Counts, introduced new Quantitative SkillsAcquisition Awards and provided support forundergraduate summer schools.

More than 50 public events were organised duringthe year, including lectures, conferences, paneldiscussions and other talks, increasingly inpartnership with other bodies. They included thefirst Modern History Week, a focused series ofevents on changes in modern states, and the firstjoint Sir John Cass’s Foundation lecture inmanagement and business studies. The Academy’spublications programme continues to communicatenew findings and insights from research inhumanities and social sciences, with a particularinterest in supporting the work of early careerscholars. It included 12 new volumes in theProceedings of the British Academy series, themedvolumes that cover different humanities and socialscience topics from a range of perspectives.



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The Fellows of the Academy once again completedtheir rigorous search for qualified candidates forelection to the Fellowship and the 2012 AnnualGeneral Meeting elected 38 new Fellows and 15new Corresponding (i.e. overseas) Fellows. Twonew Honorary Fellows were also elected. TheAcademy regularly reviews the effectiveness withwhich elections to the Fellowship reflect theacademic community. In the course of the yearnew mechanisms were introduced to ensure thatthe achievements of scholars whose research is inthe three fields of management and business studies;cultural, communications, media and performancestudies; and education are duly considered. Themaximum number of UK resident Fellows electedannually rises from 38 to 42 in 2013.

The success of the Academy rests on the leadershipof the President and the elected Officers, and thecontributions of Fellows and many others involvedin its work. A set of highly skilled and committedstaff supports their efforts. It remains my privilegeto lead them.

DR ROBIN JACKSONChief Executive and Secretary

The Academy’s website has been redesigned, andincreasingly features video, making our eventsavailable around the country, and indeed the world.Increased use of social media is enabling theAcademy to reach wider and especially youngeraudiences. A new quarterly British AcademyNewsletter keeps friends and contacts abreast ofrecent developments.

One of the important ways in which the Academyrecognises and celebrates excellence in research andcontributions to its disciplines is through the awardof prizes and medals, often funded by supporterswithin and outside the Fellowship. This year theprestigious Leverhulme Prize and Medal foroutstanding work in the social sciences wasawarded to Dame Marilyn Strathern FBA. A newmedal to honour the work of recently deceasedProfessor Edward Ullendorff FBA was introduced,awarded to Professor Simon Hopkins FBA. BritishAcademy President’s Medals, which reward signalcontributions to the cause of the humanities andsocial sciences, were awarded to Professor WarwickGould, Lord Harries, Professor Lisa Jardine, and SirJohn Vickers FBA. In the near future we lookforward to the first award of the major new NayefAl-Rodhan Prize in Transcultural Understanding,generously funded by the Nestar Foundation.



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PURPOSE, ROLES AND PRIORITIES

In 2008 the British Academy agreed a StrategicFramework for the five year period to 2013 (a newStrategic Framework for the following five years,2013–18, is now in preparation). It sets out theAcademy’s fundamental purpose as being “to inspire,recognise and support excellence and highachievement in the humanities and social sciences,throughout the UK and internationally, and tochampion their role and value”.

ROLES

In fulfilling this fundamental purpose, the Academycombines several roles:

• A Fellowship composed of distinguished scholars elected by their peers, taking a lead inrepresenting the humanities and social sciences,facilitating international collaboration, providingan independent and authoritative source ofadvice, and contributing to public policy anddebate.

• A learned society seeking to foster and promote the full range of work that makes upthe humanities and social sciences, includinginter- and multi-disciplinary work.

• A funder supporting excellent ideas, individualsand intellectual resources, which enable UKresearchers to work with scholars and resourcesin other countries, sustain a British researchpresence in different parts of the world and helpattract overseas scholars to the UK.

• A national forum for the humanities and social sciences, supporting activities andpublications which aim to stimulate curiosity, toinspire and develop future generations ofscholars, and to encourage appreciation of thesocial, economic and cultural value of thesedisciplines.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES

In order to deliver its objectives, the Academy hasidentified four strategic priorities:

• Ideas, Individuals and Intellectual Resources: Advance the humanities and social sciences by providing distinct career and researchopportunities for outstanding scholars at all levels– including those at an early career stage. Supportlong-term scholarly infrastructural projects, whichcreate the resources on which future research canbe built.

• International Engagement: Promote UK humanities and social sciences internationally andbuild international collaboration; createopportunities for UK researchers overseas, andhelp attract outstanding international talent to theUK; support a British research presence overseasand facilitate dialogue and understanding acrosscultural and national boundaries.

• Communications and Advocacy: Increase the scope and impact of communications and policywork; create and support events and publicationsthat communicate new research and perspectives;encourage public debate and demonstrate thevalue of humanities and social science scholarshipto a wide range of audiences.

• Fellowship: Strengthen opportunities and structures by which Fellows can contribute theirexpertise to the intellectual life of the Academyand the country.

For further information about the Academy’s StrategicFramework please visit: www.britac.ac.uk/about/strat-fram.cfm

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FINANCIAL RESULTS AT A GLANCE

Othergrants£0.9m

Cost ofgenerating funds

£1.9m

Overheads£0.6m*

* includes governance costs of £185k and property overheads/depreciation of £444k

* see note 4 on page 55** not to scale

WHERE THE MONEY WENT WHERE THE MONEY CAME FROM

INCOME EXCLUDING GRANT INCOME 2008–2013

Other income The ADF is the Academy’s principal free reserveSubscriptionsInvestment incomePublications

Trading incomeDonationsFunds administeredOther grantsGrants returned

VALUE OF THE ACADEMY DEVELOPMENT FUND (ADF) 2008–2013

2,500

2,750

3,000

3,250

3,500

3,750

4,000

4,250

4,500

4,750

5,000

£000’s

2008/09

£2.7m

2009/10

£3.3m

2010/11

£3.1m

2011/12

£4.0m

2012/13

£5.1m

Languages &Quantitative

Skills programme£1.3m

0

500

1,000

1,500

0

3,500

4,000

4,500

2,000

2,500

3,000

£000’s

2008/09 2009/10 2010/11 2011/12 2012/13

Early careerfellowships£10.4m

Internationalengagement£7.0m

Mid-careerfellowships

£4.8m

Smallresearch grants

£2.1m

Public policy& engagement

£1.9m

Public policy& engagement

£1.9m

Department for Business, Innovation & Skills

Clio Enterprises Ltd

Other grants

Investment income

Grants returned

Publications

Donations, subscriptions etc

£0.3m

£0.3m

£0.3m

£0.4m

£1.4m

£1.6m*

£27m**

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REVIEW OF THE YEAR

The research team at the Notarial archives, Valletta, Malta, working on a project analysing letters from 16th century Muslim galley slaves,supported by a British Academy research grant. Credit: Dionisius A. Agius



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“Once again Academy-fundedresearch has sparkled with newresults and striking insights.These have served on the onehand to maintain the UK’senviable reputation as a font ofintellectual innovation and on

the other to inform policy and practice across arange of nationally and internationally sensitivetopics.”

Professor Nigel Vincent Vice-President, Research and Higher Education PolicyProfessor Emeritus of General & RomanceLinguistics, University of Manchester

SMALL RESEARCH GRANTSA major new collaboration with the LeverhulmeTrust enabled the Small Research Grants scheme tocontinue and gain stability. As a result twocompetitions were run during 2012/13 and of the1441 applications assessed, the Academy was able tooffer a total of 331 awards. The range of researchsupported continues to be broad and wide-reaching, with funded projects ranging from anexploration of representations of Capitalism inChinese television (Dr Qing Cao, Liverpool JohnMoores University) to an historical analysis of childand youth combatants in African conflicts since1900 (Dr Stacey Hynd, University of Exeter); andfrom an examination of adolescents’ experiences ofcyber victimisation and cyber bullying by Dr LucyBett (Nottingham Trent University) to a timelyinvestigation by Dr Sanjay Sharma (BrunelUniversity) of racial discourse on Twitter: ananalysis of the #thatsracist and #notracist hashtags.

In the first half of 2012, the Academy conducted adetailed survey of past award-holders and the resultsendorse the valuable role these awards play instrengthening UK research culture. These flexiblegrants enable researchers to apply for funding of upto £10,000 for a wide variety of research projects,international fieldwork or to pilot new areas ofresearch. It was pleasing to see the evidence of howa Small Research Grant can boost a researcher’s

career, and the outputs and outcomes theserelatively small funds can generate. 61% ofrecipients developed further projects stemmingfrom their Academy-funded research, with anaverage value of £208,413. The amount leveragedfrom a Small Research Grant was thereforeapproximately 28 times the value of the originalgrant (a maximum of £7,500 at that time).

A breakdown of the total outputs and outcomesfrom this period is illustrated overleaf on page 12.

The Academy is currently undertaking anothersurvey with the most recent award-holders, theresults of which will be available later in 2013. Theresponse in both surveys has been very positive,with many respondents remarking on howbeneficial the award has been to their researchcareer. Professor Jane Chapman (University ofLincoln) reported:

“The ESRC and AHRC grants would not have beenpossible without the initial British Academy funding.So you enabled me to develop a continuing trajectoryof original research in new areas of cultural history ...I now have a reputation as the world-leadingcomparative media historian, specialising in gender inFrance, India, Britain and Australia. The seeds werefirst sown when the [Academy] spotted the potentialfor research in these hitherto un-mined areas.”

Professor Chapman’s initial grant of £6,855, whichfunded a comparative study of Le Petit Journal andthe Daily Mail from the perspective of feminisinginfluences on mass circulation, has since generatedmore than £120,000 worth of further funding.

Small Research Grant recipients are also helping toshape government policy and provide guidance andadvice to a wide variety of public and privateorganisations. Research by Klaus Dodds (RoyalHolloway, University of London) into geopolitics,resource speculation and the polar regions led to aninvitation to participate in a Norwegiangovernment sponsoredstudy visit in 2012, aswell as consultationswith the Royal UnitedServices Institute, thePolar RegionsDepartment of theForeign andCommonwealth Officeand the Ministry ofDefence. Gerard McCormack (University of Leeds)explored the internationalisation of secured credit lawleading to regular correspondence with public bodieson law reform, such as BIS, the Insolvency Serviceand the European Commission. His research wasalso extensively referenced by the Scottish LawCommission in its discussion paper on securedtransactions, and he was invited to participate in aworkshop on their reform project.

RESEARCH GRANTS

£2.1mTOTAL SPEND

325GRANTS AWARDED



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Other successes by Small Research Grant recipientshave included contributing to major exhibitions,such as the West’s first major exhibition showcasingmore than 350 artefacts of Han China (206 BC–220 AD) at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge,and a public exhibition about slavery, race and theAmerican South as part of Norwich’s BlackHistory Month celebrations. Recipients have alsoengaged with emerging technologies and utilisedthese for the dissemination of their work. One isworking with Antenna International to create asmartphone and tablet ‘app’ that will introduceschoolchildren and other audiences to thefascinating world of medieval manuscripts; anotheris creating a website aimed at the high schoolsector commemorating the centenary of the GreatWar – providing insight into the Russianexperience of 1914–17 and its impact on Russia’ssubsequent revolutionary development up to theearly 1920s.

Films and theatre productions have also increased asa way of disseminating research to a wideraudience and engaging with a non-academicpublic. Research by Atreyee Sen (University ofManchester) into ethno-histories, custodian death,disappearances and state torture in India has led tocollaborations with French media companies toproduce two documentaries to be released later thisyear on women’s rights and on violence in India.Another Small Research Grant supported AshleyThompson (University of Leeds) to develop acollaborative Cambodian-French theatreproduction of Hélène Cixous’ play The Terrible butUnfinished Story of Norodom Sihanouk. Theproduction used the play to illustrate theinterlocking global and local factors that led to theKhmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia. Following asuccessful run in Cambodia, the production wasinvited to tour France and negotiations are nowunder way for performances of a sequel in France,Lisbon, Los Angeles and Edinburgh in 2014. Books published by recipients in 2012/13 includeStephen Royle’s Portrait of an Industrial City –

Clanging Belfast 1750 –1914, Melissa Percival’sFragonard and the Fantasy Figure: Painting theImagination, Trevor Stack’s Knowing History inMexico: An Ethnography of Citizenship and JasonDittmer’s Captain America and the NationalistSuperhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics. Alarge number of articles and reports have alsocontributed to debates and new research across thehumanities and social sciences.

20%Publications

31%Presentations

18%Academicnetworking

15%Non-academic

outreach

SMALL RESEARCH GRANTS: TOTAL OUTPUTS AND OUTCOMES

7% Further projects

4% Other collaboration

3% Electronic products

2% Any other outputs/outcomes

British Academy Mid-Career Fellow Dr Deborah Sugg Ryan (FalmouthUniversity) was named Ideal Home Show Historian for her historicalresearch on the ‘ideal home’.



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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

A record 923 applications were assessed for 2012Postdoctoral Fellowships, the Academy’s ‘flagship’programme based at universities around the UK.Forty-five Fellowships were awarded in 2012,meaning the overall success rate fell to just 4.9%.

Much of the research supported by theseFellowships will contribute to improving ourunderstanding of important areas of currentnational concern. Dr Nicola Horsburgh

(University of Oxford) isexploring what it meansto be a responsiblenuclear-armed state inthe global nuclear order,with a special focus oncontemporary China.The development ofprincipled guidelinesthat can determinewhether a care-recipienthas the mental capacityto refuse paternalisticinterventions is beingresearched by

Dr Camilla Kong (University of Essex), while Dr Gerbrand Tholen’s research (University ofOxford) aims to gain a better understanding of thepost-recession British graduate labour market,through in-depth investigation into three graduateoccupations that embody the major changestransforming that market.

Dr Ashok Malhotra (University of Warwick) isexamining British authors who resided in Indiaduring the 19th century and the extent to whichthey were pressured into depicting India in acertain fashion – producing stereotypes about thecountry and its inhabitants to satisfy commercialconsiderations. Dr Eva Urban (University ofCambridge) is looking into the contribution thatinternational intercultural theatre practice has hadon community engagement, conflict resolution andpluralist understanding.

Many of the British Academy’s PostdoctoralFellows (PDFs) have published books resultingfrom their research. In December, Victoria Averywon the prestigious Italian Salimbeni Award for Art

History and Criticism for her work Vulcan’s Forge inVenus’ City: The Story of Bronze in Venice, 1350–1650(published by the Academy). Other recentlypublished works include Scientific Freedom, edited byJohn Coggon (PDF), Simona Giordano and MarcoCappato, Animism in Rainforest and Tundra:Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things inContemporary Amazonia and Siberia, edited byVanessa Elisa Grotti (PDF), Marc Brightman andOlga Ulturgasheva, and Karina Croucher’s Deathand Dying in the Neolithic Near East.

Timothy Law, a Postdoctoral Fellow from 2009–12,recently launched Marginalia Review of Books, aproject that aims to rejuvenate book reviews in thehumanities (particularly history, theology andreligion), placing a premium on quality, creativity,and discoverability. Through a website and socialmedia, the project aims to foster an environmentwhere all readers can participate in a livelyexchange of ideas.

Following an enthusiastic response to the personaldevelopment workshops offered by the Academy in2011/12, these programmes have continued to bedeveloped. A communications skills and mediatraining workshop was held in November forPostdoctoral Fellows and Newton InternationalFellows (see page 21), and in March a two-daypolicy workshop, led by Westminster Explained andNatCen, was held for both groups of early careerFellows.

Despite the general downturn in permanentacademic posts being offered, a significant numberof Postdoctoral Fellows have secured positions inthe UK and abroad, including Oxford, Cambridge,Exeter, University College London, Swansea andSunderland. Dr Louise Lee was appointed lecturerin the Department of English and Creative Writingat Roehampton University. Others resigned theirFellowships early to take up posts, including DrBahador Bahrami, who was awarded a €1.5 millionstarting grant from the European Research Councilwhich secured his position as lecturer and enabledhim to establish his own research group at theInstitute of Cognitive Neuroscience at UniversityCollege London. Dr Paul Stock became a lecturerin the Department of International History at theLondon School of Economics and Dr LameenSouag accepted a permanent research post withLACITO (Langues et Civilisations à TraditionOrale) at the CNRS in Paris to continue his workon Berber languages.

RESEARCH POSTS

£15.2mTOTAL SPEND

45NEW POSTDOCTORAL

FELLOWS

187TOTAL PDF COHORT

47NEW MID-CAREER FELLOWS



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MID-CAREER FELLOWSHIPS

The Mid-Career Fellowships programme enteredits third year of competition by continuing toattract a notably high calibre of scholars andinteresting and timely projects. The scheme allowsestablished scholars the opportunity to takebetween six and twelve months away from theirnormal duties to concentrate on a major piece ofresearch. These Fellowships also place particularemphasis on communicating the results of theresearch to a broad audience and this year’s scholarshave excelled at raising awareness in this regard.

In 2012, 313 applications were assessed and 47Mid-Career Fellowships awarded.

Publications by Fellowship holders in 2012/13have included Richard Hobbs’ The MildenhallTreasure (Objects in Focus, British Museum), DavidGraeber’s The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis,A Movement and David Murphy’s Lamine Senghor,La Violation d’un pays et autres écrits anticolonialistes.Tom Lawson’s The Last Man: A British Genocide inTasmania, to be released in January 2014 andcurrently available for pre-order, has generatedsignificant interest.

Research by Dr Deborah Sugg Ryan (FalmouthUniversity) into the architecture, design anddecoration of the ‘ideal’ home, as well as her study

of the Ideal Home Show has led to herappointment as Ideal Home Show historian and toa knowledge exchange project with the owners,Media-10.

Dr Robert Perrett (Bradford University) is using amulti-method approach to identify how mentoringvoluntary female workplace representatives couldenable them to overcome barriers to careerdevelopment within unions and promote genderproportionality within public sector unions.

Professor Alan Powers (University of Greenwich) isexamining ideas about architecture, its imagery andits physical making that did not conform toModernism during the period 1930–1970. Thiswork has resulted in an exhibition at the RoyalAcademy, ‘Eros to the Ritz: 100 Years of StreetArchitecture’ and an accompanying lecture ‘As WeStroll Down Piccadilly’.

Research into how literature was packaged for andenjoyed in middle-class homes in the 18th and19th century by Dr Abigail Williams (University ofOxford) led to her participating in BBC Radio 4’sWord of Mouth programme. In it, she shared herresearch on reading aloud and her work withprimary school children on reading, which linkedto the London Evening Standard’s high profilecampaign to get more school children reading.

Image from the Royal Academy of Arts exhibition ‘Eros to the Ritz: 100Years of Street Architecture’ – part of a British Academy funded researchproject ‘Figurative Architecture in the Time of Modernism’. Credit: Marcus Leith © Royal Academy of Arts



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RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

ACADEMY RESEARCHPROJECTS

Support has continued for around 50 active long-term collaborative projects designated as BritishAcademy Research Projects. These majorinfrastructural projects and research facilities aim tomake fundamental research tools available to a widerange of scholars working in a variety ofdisciplines.

During the past year, 41 volumes or editions werepublished arising from the work of these projects,together with 49 articles and book chapters. Anincreasing number are also establishing a visibleweb presence to further the dissemination of their

research, with several newwebsites and onlinedatabases going live overthe past year. Theseinclude the IRIS lab’sonline database, www.iris-database.org, a free andpublicly available collectionof instruments, materialsand stimuli used to elicitdata for research into

second and foreign languages, which went live inAugust 2012. In the first three months, the site hadattracted more than 2,500 visits and over 500downloads. The Making of the Terracotta Armyproject launched a new project website,www.ucl.ac.uk/terracotta-army and also released a YouTube video,www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG6KBUH7Ri4,which has been viewed over 4,600 times. TheHearth Tax Online website, www.hearthtax.org.ukcontinues to generate interest and receives around1,000 unique visits per month. It was rated as thetwelfth most important website by the BBCpopular family history magazine, Who Do You ThinkYou Are? in 2011.

Research from a number of Academy ResearchProjects has also been disseminated at high profileconferences and seminars across the UK. To markthe completion and publication of 40 volumes ofthe Duke/Edinburgh edition of The Collected Lettersof Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle, the Carlyle LettersProject hosted an international conference inEdinburgh in July 2012. In autumn 2012, the IVFHistory project featured in the University ofCambridge Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar series.Presentations were made by researchers working on

the Projet Volterra, including Simon Corcoran’s‘Sense and Nonsense: Slave law in the SummaPerusina’, at a ‘Slavery and Law’ workshop at theUniversity of Edinburgh in June 2012.

Projects have also generated significant mediaattention during the year. The Archive for Chinaproject was featured in a BBC Radio 4 broadcast inJuly 2012, ‘Old Photographs Fever: The Search forChina’s Pictured Past’(www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kkntb) and againon Pick of the Week. This was accompanied by aBBC News online article and slideshow, ‘TheSearch for Photos of China’s Past’(www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18784990).Professor Alan Bowman was interviewed on NeilOliver’s BBC TV series, A History of Ancient Britain,on the Vindolanda tablets, together with ademonstration of RTI technology in use. A 55-minute audio podcast is available athttp://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/vindolanda-tablets-audio.The Making of the Terracotta Army project hasbeen featured in news reports in The Independent, i,El Comercio (Peru), El Mundo (Spain), The IrishTimes, on BBC World and many other media.

Other highlights of the past year have included thelaunch at the Financial Times’ offices of the Recordsof Social and Economic History volume byProfessor Roger Middleton, Inside the Department ofEconomic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the Diary of an‘Irregular’, 1964–66, attended by two formerChancellors of the Exchequer and other formerMinisters and leading civil servants.

Music from the Early English Church Musiceditions continues to reach wide audiences throughboth live performances and recordings. Mostrecently the Mass ‘Quem malignus spiritus’, firstmade available in a modern edition in EECM 22(1979), formed the centrepiece of aninternationally acclaimed CD recording, ‘Music forHenry V and the House of Lancaster’.

Kitemarking as a British Academy Research Projecthas enabled many to secure further substantialfunding from other sources. The Lexicon of GreekPersonal Names project was awarded an Arts andHumanities Research Council grant for £961,827to fund the project from 2012–16 and a furthergrant of £6,000 from the Academy of Athens. TheDictionary of Old English project receivedadditional funding of over $130,000 throughout2012 from US and Canadian organisations andprivate funds including the University of Toronto,the National Endowment for the Humanities andthe Andrew W Mellon Foundation..

RESEARCH PROJECTS

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PRIVATE FUNDS

WOLFSON RESEARCH PROFESSORSHIPS

Following the success of the British Academy/Wolfson Research Professorships, which each ranfor three years from 2009–12, the WolfsonFoundation renewed its support by granting afurther £600,000 to enable another fourprofessorships to be awarded for the period 2013–16. The purpose of these awards is to give anopportunity for extended research leave to a smallnumber of outstanding established scholars, withemphasis also placed on the importance of award-holders communicating their research findings andresults to a broad audience. These professorships area “career-transforming opportunity” that giveholders “a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for in-depth academic research” according to currentBritish Academy/Wolfson Research Professor MaryMorgan FBA (LSE). The Academy received 55applications during the new round of competitionand the four successful candidates will take up theirawards in the autumn of 2013.

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

The Leverhulme Trust has continued its support for seven Senior Research Fellowships. Theseenable mid-career scholars to have a year’s researchleave, by funding the costs of replacement teachingin order for scholars to concentrate on bringingsignificant research towards completion. 125applications were assessed for awards starting in the autumn of 2012.

The resulting work has included a monograph byProfessor Ananya Jahanara Kabir (University ofLeeds) on Partition’s Post-Amnesias: 1947, 1971 andModern South Asia, which explored the way theextreme violence and radical new cartographieswhich followed the 1947 creation of India andPakistan, and the 1971 emergence of Bangladesh,affected relationships to each other, to place and tothe past, and how this has been translated andrecounted through subsequent generations. Thiswork led to a public event dedicated to the region’spartitioned textile heritage and involved textileproducers in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

A similar award is the Thank-Offering to BritainFellowship, most recently held by Dr EugeneRogan (University of Oxford). His work on theMiddle East and North Africa in the First World

War, and how that war shaped the modern MiddleEast, led to his involvement in numerous paneldiscussions and briefings to parliamentarians aboutthe Arab Spring, within the UK and also in Egypt,Italy, and the US. He also agreed to serve ashistorical advisor to two museum exhibitionsrelated to the Great War in the Middle East: theEgliseum Foundation’s ‘North Africans in the GreatWar’ and Museums Without Borders’ ‘Europe andthe Middle East, 1815–2015’.

SINO-BRITISH FELLOWSHIP TRUST

The British Academy’s relationship with the Sino-British Fellowship Trust has continued through itsannual grant to help fund individual or collectiveprojects in Britain or China. The Trust hasmaintained its focus on applications that helpachieve sustainable development in relation toenvironmental issues and pollution. A new projectfunded under this scheme is led by Professor DavidGibbs (University of Hull) who is researching thedevelopment of the partnership between theEuropean Union and the People’s Republic ofChina in order to address climate change. He isexploring both EU and Chinese policy makers’views and attitudes towards this partnership, ratherthan focussing solely on Western perspectives.

SIR ERNEST CASSEL EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUND

2013 marks the 30th anniversary of the BritishAcademy’s partnership with the Sir Ernest CasselEducational Trust, which provides support to recentpostdoctoral scholars for travel abroad related toresearch funded under the Academy’s small grantsscheme. In 2012/13, the Fund enabled scholars tovisit a range of countries, including South Africa,Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Russia, India,Canada and the US.

THE SIR JOHN CASS’S FOUNDATION

The Academy signed a new agreement with the SirJohn Cass’s Foundation in 2012 to support smallresearch grants in the fields of business andmanagement studies and in education. Up to sixgrants will be awarded each year, jointly fundedthrough this public/private partnership to whichthe Foundation is contributing £30,000 a year.Among the first projects to be supported throughthis programme was research into ‘News Media asCorporate Governance Watchdogs’ by Dr DonaldNordberg (Bournemouth University)..



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Image from the websitehttp://experiencingmusic.com/ partof the research project byPostdoctoral Fellow Dr Ruth Herbert(University of Oxford) on ‘Youngpeople’s subjective experience ofmusic outside school’.

Book cover from a British Academy Small Research Grants project‘Ethnography of Bhopal campaigners for justice’.Credit: Word Power Books www.word-power.co.uk



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Image from the exhibition ‘Ashby e l’Abruzzo’ by the British School atRome, which went on show at the British Academy and other venuesacross Europe during 2012.



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leadership; probing the challenges facing theChinese economy with Academy CorrespondingFellow Professor Justin Lin (Peking University) andexamining the potential of the Good FridayAgreement as an international model for conflictresolution.

The Academy continued to engage with the UKgovernment on immigration policy in relation tostudents and academics, stressing the importance ofan unimpeded flow of academic interchange to theUK’s research strength and its global standing, andrestating concerns about the adverse impact ofcurrent policies on the UK’s higher educationsystem.

In October the Academy reinvigorated itslongstanding relationship with the ChineseAcademy of Social Sciences (CASS), whichstretches back over 30 years, with the signing of anew Memorandum of Understanding. The newagreement will see the two academies embark onstrengthened collaboration across a range ofimportant policy areas, as well as providing jointsupport to innovative research projects betweenUK and CASS scholars. To mark a new phase ofAcademy engagement with China, the Academy’sForeign Secretary gave talks at CASS, the ShanghaiAcademy of Social Sciences, Peking University andthe British Embassy as well as visiting a newAcademy Research Project in Xian.

The past year also saw the British Academy go‘down under’ to partner with the AustralianAcademy of the Humanities to exchange ideas andexperiences around three key themes prominent onthe higher education and research policy agenda inboth countries: research assessment and publicimpact; the public perception of the humanities,and endangered disciplines and threatened faculties.

The Academy continued to be a strong advocatefor the social sciences and humanities in the EU’sforthcoming multi-billion euro researchprogramme for 2014–2020, Horizon 2020, byengaging with the European institutions, Europeanacademies and national government. The Presidentand Foreign Secretary voiced the Academy’sconcerns over the EU’s commitment to a properlyfunded research budget in its overarching budgetnegotiations, the Multiannual Financial Frameworkfor 2014–20. The Academy also chaired the ALLEA(All-European Academies) Working Group onSocial Sciences and Humanities, comprising 11European academies, leading the production of anALLEA roadmap for embedding the disciplinesthrough Horizon 2020, as well as holding meetingson the subject at the European Commission andEuropean Parliament.

“Vigorous global engagementhas been of growing importanceto the Academy’s work this year.From flying the flag for thesocial sciences and humanitiesas the EU research programmegoes forward, to partnerships

with lead academies in China and Australia toaddress a range of global challenges, theAcademy has continued to prioritisecollaborative involvement across oceans andcontinents.”

Professor Dame Helen WallaceForeign SecretaryEmeritus Professor, European Institute, LondonSchool of Economics and Political Science

INTERNATIONAL POLICYIn October the Academy welcomed the Rt HonWilliam Hague MP, Secretary of State for Foreignand Commonwealth Affairs. He spoke to anaudience of leading academics and Foreign Officeofficials on the different kinds of expertisenecessary to maximise the UK’s diplomaticinfluence in the world, including the particularimportance of understanding the languages, history,culture and geography of other countries. At themeeting, he said:

“I am grateful to the British Academy for holding thisevent. It makes an enormous difference to us ingovernment to have such well-informed andconstructive critics and intellectual sparring-partners”.

The launch of a new International Forum Serieshas enabled the Academy to draw on leading socialscience and humanities scholarship to provide adeeper, more contextualised analysis of topicalinternational policy issues. The first three forumsbrought together senior academics, journalists,politicians, diplomats, policy makers, businessleaders, and civil society representatives to engagein frank, informed debate around a range ofimportant issues: going beyond the headlines of the18th Chinese Communist Party National Congressto analyse the domestic and internationalimplications of the recent changes in the Chinese



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The Rt Hon William Hague gave a speech on the importance of soft powerand diplomatic tradecraft at the British Academy in October 2012.

The post-PhD period is crucial for scholars whoare finding their research niche and acquiringcritical research tools and experience. The nextgeneration of researchers in sub-Saharan Africafaces particular challenges, including a frequent lackof resources and institutional barriers. TheAcademy’s continuing engagement with theNairobi Process continued with the launch of anenhanced Africa Desk portal and a training anddevelopment workshop held in Accra, Ghana, for40 West African early career researchers. Theworkshop advanced discussion on how best tosupport the next generation of African academics,and also provided practical training anddevelopment sessions on research methodologies,mentoring, networking, grants, communication andaccessing and publishing research. There was much

positive feedback including from Oludayo DavidTade of the University of Ibadan who said:

“The British Academy training and developmentworkshop … was illuminating, building my capacity aswell as shedding light on hitherto blurred vision aboutwriting for a global audience”.

A multidisciplinary initiative to interrogate themeaning and significance of South Asian studies inthe UK opened with a round table discussion inNovember. It was followed in February by a two-day international conference exploring space andspatiality in South Asia, with discussions rangingfrom cutting edge research on borders and border-making to disappearing bays and the meaning ofspace in architecture.



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RESEARCH FUNDING AND FACILITATION

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND MOBILITY SCHEME

Fifty-two inaugural awards were made under theAcademy’s new International Partnership andMobility scheme, which supports researchpartnerships between the UK and other areas ofthe world where research excellence would bestrengthened by new initiatives and links.

The awards spanned research partnerships with 26different countries in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, South Asia, andEast and South-East Asia. Three awards forUK/Taiwan collaborative research were co-fundedby the National Science Council of Taiwan, underthe Academy’s Memorandum of Understandingsigned last year.

NEWTON FELLOWSHIPS

The Newton International Fellowships, run jointlywith the Royal Society and now in their fifth year,remain popular. In 2012 the programme attractedapplications fromindividuals in 59different countries, withthe Academy making 13awards to enable thebest early careerresearchers in thehumanities and socialsciences to come to theUK for a two-yearperiod. Awards willcover research intosubjects such as thesocio-economic impacton women within Ghanaian oil communities, theschooling and identity of Eastern Europeanimmigrant pupils in England, and laughter in therealist novel. Those Newton Fellows who havecompleted their two years in the UK continued totake up the provision of follow-on funding in orderto maintain their links with the UK from theirnext posts around the globe, including in Europe,India, Pakistan, China, Nigeria, the USA, Canadaand Australia.


£4.6mSUPPORT FOR SCHOOLS

AND INSTITUTES

£2.4mINTERNATIONALFELLOWSHIPS,

EVENTS, GRANTS,PARTNERSHIPS

AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

In October 2012 British Academy Foreign Secretary, Dame Helen Wallace,signed a new Memorandum of Understanding between the ChineseAcademy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the British Academy.



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‘The Arab Spring’s Missing Dimension: Views fromthe Countryside, Peasants, Agriculture and PoliticalProtest,’ exploring the role of rural mobilisation inpromoting regime change.

During the year, a review of the British School atRome was undertaken, with the Academy reviewteam impressed by the strong and vibrant researchculture evident within the School. It delivered arich and ambitious programme of outreach eventsincluding the Abruzzo photographic exhibition inthe UK and Italy, which attracted 40,000 people,and contributed to two BBC televisiondocumentaries on Rome which aired inDecember.

The British School at Athens’ Fitch Laboratory forscience-based archaeology joined an internationalteam in 2012 investigating the largest collection ofearly Greek inscriptions yet found. Inscribedpottery from Methoni, the first Greek colony inthe northern Aegean, revealed that writing wasextensively used within an intensive trade network.

The British Institute in Eastern Africa held itsNairobi Annual Lecture in November 2012. JusticeAlbie Sachs, formerly of the South AfricanConstitutional Court, delivered a lecture entitled‘The Judge Who Cried: Enforcing Social andEconomic Rights’, which was attended by 300people and is available via the British Academy’swebsite.

Despite the continuing political difficulties withinLibya, the Society for Libyan Studies was able tocontinue excavations and survey work at HauaFteah in Cyrenaica. Among the Society’sprogramme of events held at the Academy was alecture by Channel 4 News journalist, LindseyHilsum, who described the challenges of reportingthe end of the Qaddafi regime.

The British Institute at Ankara held a paneldiscussion jointly organised with the Academy inJanuary 2013 titled ‘Turkey and the Challenges ofthe New Middle East’ to explore the revitalisedrelationship between Turkey and her MiddleEastern neighbours, and how regime change andpolitical unrest have challenged Turkey’s interestsand influence as a rising regional power.


BRITISH ACADEMYSPONSORED INSTITUTES AND SOCIETIES (BASIS)

“The Academy-sponsoredinstitutes have continued toexpand and diversify theirexciting range of research,support and outreach. This yearsaw a growing number of theinstitutes partnering with one

another on joint initiatives, such as the BritishSchool at Athens/British Institute at Ankara newBalkan Futures project.”

Professor Martin MillettChair of BASISLaurence Professor of Classical Archaeology,University of Cambridge

The Academy plays a central role in sponsoring,shaping and developing a network of Britishresearch institutes and societies that conduct andfacilitate international research and fieldwork byUK scholars across a wide range of humanities andsocial science disciplines.

In 2012/13, the Academy supported six instituteswith premises overseas:

British Institute at Ankara (BIAA)British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA) basedin NairobiBritish Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) basedin London and TehranBritish School at Athens (BSA)British School at Rome (BSR)Council for British Research in the Levant(CBRL) based in Amman and Jerusalem

It also supported a UK-based learned society, theSociety for Libyan Studies (SLS) and the Councilfor British Archaeology.

The Academy invited sponsored institutes tosubmit proposals to a new initiative – the ArabSpring – which supports new UK humanities andsocial science research in Libya, Tunisia and Egypt.Successful projects included a joint BSR/SLSinitiative, ‘Through Dido’s Eyes: The Arab Spring inLiterature and the Arts,’ exploring the culturalresonance of recent events, and ‘Constitutionalismand the Arab Uprisings,’ as well as a CBRL project,



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The Council for British Research in the Levant(CBRL) Institute in Amman continued to thrive,with active programmes in archaeology andcontemporary research, while at its KenyonInstitute the year started with a workshop on‘Jerusalem and Constantinople: Cities of Caesar,Cities of God’, and finished with a conference onthe ‘History and Material Culture of OttomanPalestine’. A key feature of its lecture programmewas the number of events held jointly with theInstitut Français du Proche-Orient.

The British Institute of Persian Studies had a busyyear, despite the challenges of working directly in

Image from The Council for British Research in the Levant projectexploring the role of rural and peasant opposition to the authoritarianregimes in Tunisia and Egypt. It also aims to support the development of‘Thimar’ a regional research collective on agriculture, environment andlabour in the Arab world.

Iran, with a number of books published whichdemonstrated the breadth of funded research.Publications ranged from Shi’i Islam and Identity:Religion, Politics and Change in the Global MuslimCommunity to Persia’s Imperial Power in LateAntiquity.

As a member of the European Consortium forAsian Field-Study (ECAF), the Academy continuedits support for a series of Visiting Fellowships toenable UK scholars to make research visits toECAF-operated field centres in South and South-East Asia.



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Winners drawn from all parts of the UK celebrate the British Academy’sfirst Schools Language Awards, held in November 2012.

Higher Education and Public Policy form the two major strands of policy engagement activitiesundertaken by the British Academy, with a shared underlying commitment to increase awareness of thevalue and impact generated by humanities and social science research. The Academy is also runninga four-year programme to champion and encourage greater use of languages and quantitative skillsacross the humanities and social sciences, and progress in developing this programme, now in itssecond year, is also reported here.



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“All too often in recent yearsnew policies for highereducation have been introducedwithout due reflection on whatthey mean for the full spread ofacademic disciplines.Postgraduate funding and open

access are cases in point, where the Academyhas sought to articulate the issues and defendthe needs of the humanities and social sciences.

“It has also been gratifying to see how theAcademy’s work in languages and quantitativeskills over the last year has engaged with alllevels of education and research, from theprimary school through to the postdoctoral level.Both, in their different ways, are fundamental tothe success of the UK in the modern world.”

Professor Nigel Vincent Vice-President, Research and Higher Education Policy

RESEARCH AND HIGHEREDUCATION POLICY Humanities and social science students make uparound 40% of the UK’s undergraduate andpostgraduate population. These enormously popularsubjects continue to attract large numbers ofstudents interested in understanding how they canhelp us make sense of our lives, of the world we livein and the choices we make for it.

At the research level, 50% of the active researchersin the UK are in the humanities and social sciences.Research and scholarship in these subject areas haveintrinsic value in themselves, as vital parts of humanknowledge and understanding. They also contributeto cultural enrichment and to an educated citizenry,and in a modern developed economy are vital forcompetitiveness and prosperity in its fullest sense.

The Academy focuses its higher education policyand advocacy activities on behalf of thesedisciplines, and their students and academics.Extensive changes in recent government highereducation policies have prompted much disquiet.The Academy is well placed to comment onnational policies and has offered challenge and

criticism where appropriate, representing the viewsof a wide range of academics.

A particular focus this year has been the Academy’scampaign for better funding opportunities forpostgraduates. The higher education reforms inEngland announced in 2010 meant that studentsentering undergraduate education from September2012 were charged up to £9000 per year fortuition. While students will be able to fund thisthrough tuition fee loans, little consideration hasbeen given to the reforms’ impact on subsequentparticipation in postgraduate education.

In July the Academy published Postgraduate Funding:The Neglected Dimension and, together with otherorganisations, has argued strongly that governmentneeds to do more to understand the issues andchallenges facing this crucial area of highereducation. Research has also been commissionedinto student attitudes to debt and its effect on takeup of postgraduate study. As economies becomemore competitive and demand higher level skills,and innovative research becomes ever more vital toeconomic growth and societal well being, it isessential for the UK to give higher priority toinvestment in postgraduate education, to ensure thatthe country has sufficient people with the relevantskills for its future.

Another important focus for the Academy – albeitone with a lower profile outside academiccommunities – has been the policies mandating thatfuture research findings be published on an openaccess basis. Developments in digital and onlinetechnology enable knowledge and information tobe shared more widely than was previously possible;it is impossible to deny the benefits that come fromthis. But, as so often with disruptive technologiesand policy changes, unintended consequences canhave unfortunate impacts. As a body representing amajor part of the higher education sector, theAcademy has sought to demonstrate some of thechallenges of implementing open access publishing,to lobby for research and funding bodies to takeproper account of these concerns, and to influencechanges in the national agenda – in order to providefor a sustainable transition.

UK STUDENT POPULATION BY CATEGORY 2011/12

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Medicine, dentistry, subjects allied to medicine

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LANGUAGES ANDQUANTITATIVE SKILLS

In 2011, the British Academy launched a four-yearprogramme targeting deficits in the UK’s languagesand quantitative skills. It reflects the Academy’slongstanding concerns about the way these deficitsaffect the humanities and social sciences, as well asin education and research more generally. Throughthe programme, the Academy funds new researchand seeks to influence policy both through high-level reports and activities, and through morespecific initiatives promoting best practice. Supportis targeted at all educational levels from school,through to undergraduate, postgraduate andresearch levels.

The second year of the programme saw anincreased focus on cross-sector engagement andworking in partnership with other key stakeholders,with the aim of deepening awareness of thechallenges which these serious skills deficits posefor different communities and sectors, therebyhelping to facilitate long-term change.

Highlights in 2012/13 are included below, withillustrative comments from some of theparticipants.

LANGUAGES

State of the NationIn February 2013, the Academy launched its firstState of the Nation report on the demand and supplyof language skills in all four parts of the UK. Usingnew research, the report warns that a weak supplyof language skills in the job market is pushingdown demand and creating a vicious circle ofmonolingualism. The report spells out the strategicneed to diversify further, rather than replace,existing language provision.

In response to a Parliamentary Question about thereport in the House of Lords in March 2013,Baroness Garden of Frognal, GovernmentSpokesperson for Higher Education and Skills, said:

“The government welcomes the report and iscommitted to the teaching of languages. The NationalCurriculum, to be statutory from September 2014,includes a foreign language at Key Stage 2 for the firsttime. In higher education, we have supported thecontinued availability of language study throughHEFCE’s strategically important and vulnerable subjectfunding. There is an increase in the number of

students opting to study abroad. We will reflect on thereport’s recommendations to ensure that we are doingall that we can to support growth.”

Lost for Words InquiryThe Academy launched an open consultation in2012 as part of an inquiry into the use andimportance of languages in meeting UK policyobjectives in international relations and security.Initial findings of the inquiry – overseen by anexpert steering group chaired by Dr Robin Niblett,Director of Chatham House – were discussed at aforum in November, bringing together seniorgovernment representatives, language providers, andnational and international academic experts.

British Academy Schools Language Awards

“We are delighted by this award from the BritishAcademy. Winning the award has put new wind in oursails. We are extremely grateful that we can nowrealise the dreams of our students.”

2012 Winner

Winners of the first Schools Language Awardscelebrated their achievements at a ceremonycompèred by Channel 4 News presenter CathyNewman. Prizes were presented by CBBC’s NaomiWilkinson and a representative from Arsenal FC.Fifteen schools were selected from 159 applicationsand rewarded for their innovative and motivatingteaching in a broad range of languages: French,German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Mandarin,Japanese, Arabic, Somali, Malayalam, Polish,Cantonese, Urdu and Punjabi. The competitionwill now be run annually.

“Wherever you are, you are always going to get a lotfurther by speaking to people in their own language.”

Cathy Newman, British Academy Schools LanguageAwards, November 2012

Language WeekIn November 2012, the Academy held its firstLanguage Week, bringing together a series of eventsexploring and championing the learning and use oflanguages in schools, universities, policy makingand public life. The week included a joint paneldiscussion with the Arts and Humanities ResearchCouncil on ‘Multilingualism and the Internet’; ajoint event with the Higher Education Academyon ‘Languages and Entrepreneurship’; and aconference with Cumberland Lodge on ‘Makingthe Most of Multilingual Britain’.

“I’m here to congratulate the British Academy for thiswonderful Language Week. Whatever languages youare learning, I promise you, it opens up your horizonand it will give you much more choice in your futurecareer.”

Mr Yang Sen, Minister Counsellor, Chinese Embassy

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QUANTITATIVE SKILLS

Society CountsWell-rounded graduates equipped with corequantitative skills are vital if the UK is to retain itsstatus as a world leader in research and highereducation, rebuild its economy, and provide citizenswith the means to understand and analyse data. InOctober 2012, the Academy published a positionstatement – together with a supporting statementfrom social science and humanities learned societies– calling for a national strategy for action. It arguesfor the need to change behaviour to ensure thatUK graduates are equipped with the skillsnecessary for competitiveness, professionaldevelopment and employability. The Academy,through activities such as the establishment of aHigh Level Strategy Group, is committed toleading a strategy for long-term change.

“The British Academy position paper highlights why itis so important that we work together – acrossgovernment, higher education, schools and industry –to address the need for greater proficiency inquantitative skills. We need to have a workforce, anda society, equipped with the skills to evaluate andanalyse the increasing amounts of complex data usedin public policy, the media and our everyday lives.”

Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister for Universities andScience, October 2012

Undergraduate Summer School ScholarshipsIn partnership with the University of Essex, theAcademy provided 50 half-scholarships forundergraduate students to participate in the 2012

Summer School in Social Science Data Analysis.Students were selected from 173 applicants across42 UK universities, seeking to improve their dataanalysis skills.

Skills Acquisition AwardsIn September 2012, the Academy launched a pilotscheme enabling early career researchers to developand enhance their quantitative skills by spendingtime with a mentor at a specialist centre. A total of20 awards have been made, benefiting theindividual researchers and encouraging thedevelopment of networks and future partnerships.Award winners included Dr Nick Malleson,mentored by Professor Chris Brunsdon at theUniversity of Liverpool, to develop an advancedmethod based on Multiple-Point Geostatistics thatwill identify crime ‘hotspots’; and Dr LotteMeteyard, who will be mentored by ProfessorHarald Baayen at Eberhard Karls University inTuebingen, developing advanced, mixed modellingto analyse the complex data sets needed toinvestigate the structure of the language system, andhow it changes with individual differences over thehuman life-span or following impairment.

Stand Out and Be CountedThe Academy published a new guide in February2013 for students in the social sciences andhumanities, signalling the importance of data-handling skills. Using personal stories fromjournalists, entrepreneurs, policy makers and others,the guide illustrates the steps that can be taken tolearn these skills and the careers which they haveled them to.



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published a report, written by Professor ColmO’Cinneide from University College London,which clarifies the workings of the UK humanrights law, and the nature of the relationshipbetween the European Court of Human Rightsand the UK courts and Parliament. The report’sfindings were fed into the government-appointedCommission on a Bill of Rights that reported inDecember 2012. Two members of the Commission,Baroness Helena Kennedy and Professor PhilippeSands (UCL), cited the Academy’s Human Rightsand the UK Constitution report in their minorityreport, and Sadiq Khan, Shadow Lord Chancellorand Shadow Secretary of State for Justicecommented in November 2012:

“Everyone across the country should know more abouthow the rights many take for granted are protected byour Human Rights Act. The executive summary of theBritish Academy’s Human rights and the UKConstitution should be essential reading for thoselearning about human rights in the UK”.

League Tables GuideTo coincide with the annual publication ofsecondary school league tables by the governmentin January 2013, the Policy Centre published ashort guide on school league tables for headteachers and governors. Written by ProfessorHarvey Goldstein FBA, Professor of Social Statisticsat the University of Bristol, it summarises whatacademic evidence tells us about some of theproblems associated with the use of school leaguetables. The guide was sent to over 5000 schools inthe UK. Head teachers and school governors canuse the guide to point out some of the drawbacksof school league tables and help avoid misleadinginterpretations by parents, the press and the widerpublic. The guide is based on the report MeasuringSuccess that was written by Professor Goldstein andBeth Foley and published by the Academy’s PolicyCentre in March 2012.

Enlightening the Constitutional DebateA report exploring Scotland’s past, present andfuture relationship with the rest of the UnitedKingdom, including complex issues such as tax andspending, the constitution and relations with theEuropean Union was published in September 2012by the British Academy and the Royal Society ofEdinburgh. Scotland and the United Kingdom recordsthe views expressed by speakers and attendees attwo conferences held by the Academy and Societyearlier in the year and it attracted press coverage inThe Times, The Herald, the Scottish Daily Mail andthe Edinburgh Evening News.

Following this success, the British Academy and theRoyal Society of Edinburgh launched a furtherseries of focused events which will run through toearly 2014 and look more deeply into the issuesthat will affect Scotland and the United Kingdom

PUBLIC POLICY

“During the year, I have beenvery pleased to see theAcademy’s public policy workbuild so firmly on thefoundations laid by the foundingVice-President for PublicPolicy, Albert Weale. Thanks to

a tiny but dedicated staff and enormous amountsof pro bono publico work by Fellows, theAcademy has had a substantial impact on publicpolicy making in the year under review. It haspreserved its reputation for authority andreliability.”

Professor Iain McLean Vice-President, Public PolicyProfessor of Politics, University of Oxford

During the past year the British Academy hascontinued to showcase the relevance of thehumanities and social sciences to public policy,producing a wide range of reports and fosteringcollaboration between leading academics andpolicy makers.

Highlights of the public policy programme ofwork during 2012/13 included the followingreports and activities:

Human Enhancement and the Future of WorkThe British Academy, the Academy of MedicalSciences, the Royal Academy of Engineering andthe Royal Society published a joint report inNovember 2012 that discussed technologicaladvancements that could dramatically change howpeople work over the next decade. It was launchedat the Science Media Centre with a paneldiscussion led by Professor Genevra RichardsonFBA, who also chaired the project. The reportreceived extensive media coverage including in TheGuardian, the Daily Mail, The Independent, BBCNews online, Reuters and The Daily Telegraph.Professor Richardson was also interviewed aboutthe report on the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme.

Human Rights and the UK ConstitutionThe UK human rights framework has been thesubject of considerable controversy over recentyears. In September 2012 the Policy Centre

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following the referendum on Scottishindependence. They will examine specific areas ofpolicy such as defence, education, tax and spending,and relations with the EU, and at how the variousconstitutional options will affect the ways thesepolicy areas are dealt with in the future.

Nudge and Beyond: Behavioural Science,Policy and Knowing What WorksThe Academy hosted a one day conference aboutbehavioural economics and psychology with theBehavioural Insights Team (BIT) from the CabinetOffice in June 2012. The event brought togethersenior academics, politicians and policy makers todiscuss developments in behaviour change policy

A selection of public policy reports produced in the past year by the British Academy Policy Centre.

and research since the publication of the influentialbook Nudge. The programme included high profilespeakers such as Professor Richard Thaler, one ofthe authors of Nudge, the former Cabinet SecretaryLord Gus O’Donnell, the journalist Ben Goldacreand senior advisors from 10 Downing Street.



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COMMUNICATIONSAND EXTERNALRELATIONS

A British Academy panel discussion in October 2012 explored why therewas still such low representation of women leaders in the workplace.



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“The British Academy has avital role to play, especially atthe present time, in publicisingand celebrating excellentresearch in the humanities andsocial sciences, andchampioning its value and

importance. The Academy’s communications andoutreach activities have been strengthened in anumber of very positive ways over the past yearto help us achieve these aims.”

Professor Vicki BruceVice-President, Communications and ExternalRelationsProfessor of Psychology, Newcastle University

MEDIA ANDCOMMUNICATIONSOver the past year the Academy’s communicationactivities have been reorganised with the aim ofstrengthening outreach to the wider public andbuilding improved working relationships withjournalists and media outlets. This has includedredesigning the website, making many more eventsavailable in video via the website and YouTube,making increased use of social media to reachwider and especially younger audiences, andlaunching a quarterly British Academy newsletterto a wide range of external stakeholders andpartner organisations, Fellows and interestedmembers of the public.

Thirteen Policy Centre reports attracted press andmedia coverage during 2012/13, together with arange of press statements, research funding stories,letters to editors, and features and news coverage ofAcademy events including the new SchoolsLanguage Awards. There was particularly prominentcoverage of the joint Academies report on HumanEnhancement, which received coverage on Radio 4’sToday Programme and in The Guardian, The Telegraph,Times Higher Education and in many other UK andinternational media outlets; and the State of theNation report on the plight of UK languagelearning, which potentially reached 36 millionpeople via press and online communication andwas downloaded from the Academy’s website inover 59 different countries.

COMMUNICATIONS AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS

Lord Stern reviewed the papers on Radio 4’sBroadcasting House, following the announcement ofhis election as the Academy’s next President.

The announcement of 38 newly elected Fellows inJuly and the first ever Schools Language Awardseach helped secure plentiful regional coverage, andthese two annual events are proving a useful way ofbuilding relationships with local media. Jointreports and events with the Royal Society ofEdinburgh in relation to potential Scottishdevolution secured media coverage across theScottish media. Several public events attractedfeatures and news coverage in BBC HistoryMagazine, The Independent, THE and the NewStatesman, amongst others.

Research projects funded by the Academy over thepast year were featured in The Guardian, BBCregional media and on BBC Radio 4’s Word ofMouth series.

This year also saw the Academy review itsmarketing and advertising activities, launching anewly designed public events booklet, outsourcingits advertising to gain far greater cost-effectiveness,and introducing e-flyers to help promote events towider audiences and increase the Academy’sexternal visibility. There has also been a positiveresponse to the introduction of a new straplineunder the Academy’s logo (“for the humanities andsocial sciences”) used on the website and inexternal advertising, to heighten recognition of theAcademy’s role in a more direct and succinct way.

The Academy secured its first four mediapartnerships this past year with BBC MusicMagazine, Current World Archaeology, a joint lectureseries with BBC History Magazine and the mostsubstantial media partnership to date with theTimes Literary Supplement. The partnership with theTLS has included five full-page adverts and 7000British Academy Literature Week leaflets being sentout to all TLS subscribers.

Social media interest in the Academy has rocketed,with Twitter followers increasing from 300 to over3500 in the past year. Twitter is proving itself to bean increasingly valuable route for the Academy toreach new and especially younger audiences, and tokeep journalists aware of our activities and outputs,beyond the conventional press release.


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Where Are All the Women?Following an Academy event in March 2012 whichcelebrated International Women’s Day, at which apanel of distinguished academics talked aboutwomen who have and who continue to inspirethem, a further panel discussion in October 2012explored why there was still such lowrepresentation of women directors and leaders inthe workplace. Organised in partnership with TheCulture Capital Exchange as part of the ‘InsideOut’ Festival, the discussion featured panellistsincluding Cressida Dick of the Metropolitan Police,consultant and broadcaster Deborah Mattinson andProfessor Vicki Bruce FBA. Among the questionsdebated were whether women across a range ofsectors were increasingly less likely to get top jobs,especially during an economic downturn, or werethey just less visible in these positions. And itquestioned what signals were being sent about theUK’s most powerful and influential institutions andindeed our culture as a whole.

The ‘Big Data’ DebateAs part of the 2012 Economic and Social ResearchCouncil (ESRC) Festival of Social Science, aspecial panel discussion was jointly organised bythe Academy and SAGE Publishers, and chaired byThe Guardian’s political and social commentatorPolly Toynbee. Professor Paul Boyle, ChiefExecutive of the ESRC, Professor HarveyGoldstein FBA (University of Bristol), Dr FaridaVis (University of Leicester) and Paul Woobey(Office of National Statistics) made up the panel.The debate focused on what opportunities ‘BigData’ offered to the social sciences and whatchallenges it created for researchers, governmentand wider society, and what skills, training andresources were needed. The wider implications inrelation to public scrutiny and individual freedomwere also considered.

PUBLIC EVENTS

The Academy’s main public events programme,spanning lectures, conferences, panel discussionsand other talks, attracted total audiences in excessof 5,300 people during 2012/13. In addition, anincreasing number of both invitation and openevents were organised under the auspices of theAcademy’s international and policy teams. The

year’s many highlightsincluded:

Mario Vargas LlosaThe Academy wasdelighted to host a jointevent with theUniversity of Warwickand one of the world’sgreatest contemporarynovelists and playwrightsand a leading public

intellectual in June 2012. Mario Vargas Llosa,winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010,discussed his career, and his latest novel The Dreamof the Celt in conversation with Professor EfraínKristal (UCLA) and a large audience of almost 300people. His novel deals with key moments in thelife of the Irish nationalist, Roger Casement. Aprivate reception was held afterwards at the kindinvitation of the Irish Ambassador to London.

PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT

90EVENTS HELD

8,655PEOPLE ATTENDED

(INCLUDES INTERNATIONALAND POLICY EVENTS)

Paul Woobey, Polly Toynbee and Professor Harvey Goldstein taking part ina 2012 debate on the importance of ‘Big Data’.



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Fundamentalism Under the MicroscopeThe 2013 British Academy Lecture was given thisyear by Professor Michael Cook (Princeton) andwas followed the next day by a conferenceexploring different aspects of Fundamentalism,historical and contemporary, across differentreligions, and asking what scale of threat these poseto the modern day world. An array of distinguishedspeakers included Professor James Dunn FBA,Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, the authors KarenArmstrong and Malise Ruthven, Ed Husa in fromthe US Council on Foreign Relations, andProfessor John Lennox, who spoke of the paralleldangers of scientific fundamentalism.

Modern History WeekThree of the Academy’s regular lecture series werecombined in November 2012 to create ‘ModernHistory Week’, a linked series of lectures exploringthe theme of ‘the making and breaking of states’spanning India, Greece and the USA. ProfessorJudith Brown’s lecture ‘The End of Empire in IndiaRevisited’ examined the end of British Imperialrule in the subcontinent in 1947 and helpedinvestigate issues around the dynamics of otherphases of turbulence in the structures and nature ofstates. This lecture was then repeated at theUniversity of Leeds. Professor Mark Mazower’stheme was ‘The Greek War of Independence in a

Global Era’ – exploring how Greece emerged asthe first nation-state in Europe, giving insights intothe Ottoman response to the Greek rebellion andhow the conflict created a new global character ofinternational politics. In the final lecture, ProfessorArne Westad spoke on ‘Ronald Reagan and theRe-Constitution of American Hegemony’ – usingrecently opened archival material to explorechanges in international interpretations of thedecade including the personal power of Reagan asPresident, changes in US alliance patterns andglobal ideological re-ordering.

Language, Community, IdentityThe British Academy hosted the first in a series ofannual events co-sponsored by the PhilologicalSociety in May 2012. A panel discussion chaired byProfessor Peter Trudgill FBA (Agder University)explored issues of language and individual andgroup identity. Recent research findings werereviewed and debated by a panel of distinguishedsociolinguists including Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Professor Jenny Cheshire FBA, DrDevyani Sharma and Professor Dennis Preston. TheAcademy’s and the Society’s mutual interest inlanguage issues means that annual events will nowbe jointly organised, alternating between a lectureand panel discussion.

Nobel Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa visited the Academy in June 2012 for anevent jointly hosted with the University of Warwick.



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PRIZES AND MEDALS

2012 saw the presentation of the inaugural EdwardUllendorff medal for outstanding achievement inthe field of Semitic Languages and EthiopianStudies, donated by Mrs Dina Ullendorff in honourof her late husband. It was also the third year of theBritish Academy President’s Medals, awarded tothose who have performed ‘signal service’ to thecause of the humanities and social sciences.

The following prizes and medals were presented atthe Academy’s annual Awards Ceremony inNovember 2012.

LEVERHULME PRIZE AND MEDALDAME MARILYN STRATHERN FBAUniversity of Cambridge

BRITISH ACADEMY PRESIDENT’S MEDALSPROFESSOR WARWICK GOULDInstitute of English Studies, University of London

THE RT REVEREND PROFESSOR LORDHARRIES OF PENTREGARTH

PROFESSOR LISA JARDINE CBEUniversity College London

PROFESSOR SIR JOHN VICKERS FBAUniversity of Oxford

DEREK ALLEN PRIZE FOR CELTIC STUDIESPROFESSOR FERGUS KELLYSchool of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

BURKITT MEDAL FOR BIBLICAL STUDIESPROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER TUCKETTUniversity of Oxford

GRAHAME CLARK MEDAL FOR PREHISTORICARCHAEOLOGYPROFESSOR CHARLES HIGHAM, FBA, FRSNZUniversity of Otago

ROSE MARY CRAWSHAY PRIZE FOR ENGLISHLITERATUREPROFESSOR JULIE SANDERSUniversity of NottinghamFor The Cultural Geography of Early Modern Drama1620 –1650 (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

SERENA MEDAL FOR ITALIAN STUDIESPROFESSOR RICHARD BELLAMYUniversity College London

EDWARD ULLENDORFF MEDALPROFESSOR SIMON HOPKINS FBAHebrew University, Jerusalem

WILEY PRIZE IN PSYCHOLOGYDR YULIA KOVASGoldsmiths, University of London

Prize winners and medallists at the Academy’s annual Awards Ceremonyheld in November 2012.




PUBLICATIONS

“The British Academy selectsonly the best scholarship forinclusion in the Proceedings ofthe British Academy series,making each volume a landmarkin its field. Maintaining a stronginternational dimension will

always be key to the strength of this series.”

Professor Chris WickhamPublications SecretaryChichele Professor of Medieval History,University of Oxford

The British Academy’s publications programmeplays an important role in communicating newinsights from humanities and social science research.In 2012/13, 33 new titles were published, themajority through the Academy’s longstandingpartnership with Oxford University Press.

For over a hundred years, the Proceedings of theBritish Academy series has published some of themost important essays in the humanities and socialsciences. Twelve new volumes in this flagship serieswere published during 2012/13.

The Proceedings series nowseeks to publish themedvolumes that drivescholarship within theBritish Academy’sdisciplines. These volumesare not justmultidisciplinary; thesubject coverage and theauthorship of the papershave always beenmultinational. The newProceedings volumes have

particularly strong international perspectives. Theirsubjects range widely: an archaeological andlinguistic exploration of the prehistory of theAndes; the study of epigraphical evidence fromEurope and the Middle East; war memorials, fromclassical times to the Vietnam War; how Jerusalemwas portrayed in medieval Europe; the ‘musicroom’ in early modern France and Italy; the French

Revolution; precolonial western Africa and tradeacross the Atlantic; racism in the Portuguese-speaking world; identity and citizenship registrationacross the world; and obesity in the world’s affluentsocieties. The authorship of these volumes includescontributors from continental Europe, North andSouth America, Africa, and Australia.

The British Academy also publishes researchresources arising from its longstanding Academyresearch projects. The appearance of a further fourtitles has brought the total number of volumes thathave now appeared in the Records of Social andEconomic History, New Series to 50. These scholarlyeditions are drawn from the wealth of records thatdocument Britain’s social and economic historyfrom medieval to modern times.

Since its earliest years, the British Academy haspublished extended obituaries (memoirs) ofdeceased Fellows. Collectively the biographicalmemoirs of the British Academy make up a chapterin the intellectual history of Britain, and are used asa source by biographers and historians. From 2012,the new memoirs published each year are beingmade available online as an open access resource –allowing a wider readership to understand both thescholarly contribution of these Fellows and theirmore personal stories.

PUBLICATIONS

33NEW PUBLICATIONS

PRODUCED

14DIFFERENT SERIES

PRODUCED

£290kSALES INCOME RECEIVED

The latest title in the British Academy series Records of Social andEconomic History.

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FELLOWSHIPPROGRAMMES

“Each year the Academy electsnew Fellows from across thehumanities and social sciences.Bye-Laws limit the number ofelections that can be made inany year, and rigorousprocesses are followed by the disciplinary Sections andGroups, supported byindependent internationalevaluation, to ensure that themost outstanding scholars are selected.”

Professor Jonathan BateVice-President, Humanities Provost, Worcester College, Oxford

Professor Colin CrouchVice-President, Social SciencesProfessor of Governance and PublicManagement, University of Warwick

The Fellowship of the British Academy is organisedinto two Groups (one for humanities and one forsocial sciences) and 18 Sections by academicdiscipline and subject. Each of the Sectionsappoints a Standing Committee, to prepare businessand act for the Section where appropriate. Sectionsalso appoint officers to lead on contributing to theAcademy’s grant-giving activities.

Section meetings took place in October 2012 andMarch 2013, to discuss current issues and considercandidates for election (the March meetings areinformed by ballots of Section members held inFebruary). Lectures and discussions on topical issuesare arranged to complement Section meetings, andalso include the annual New Fellows AdmissionCeremony in October, which involves discussionby newly elected Fellows about their work. InMarch, the President held a reception for Fellowsand guests.

The category of Emeritus Fellowship wasintroduced in 2010 for those over the age of 70who wish to retire from actively contributing tothe business of the Academy. It has continued togrow and there are now 128 Emeritus Fellows,about 15% of the total Fellowship.

The two Groups, consisting of representatives fromeach of the humanities and social science Sections,met twice in the year. They perform electoral andother functions, make recommendations toCouncil regarding elections to the Fellowship andadvise on other matters affecting the particularinterests of scholarship in their disciplinary areas.

The Fellowship and Structures Committee (FSC)met twice in the year: to consider any structuralchanges appropriate for the Fellowship; to monitorthe process of election to the Fellowship; and toconsider the claims of scholars whose work doesnot sufficiently fall within the purview of any oneSection. During the year a Review Group set upby the FSC examined how effectively the currentSectional organisation of the Fellowship coveredthe fields of study in the humanities and socialsciences. As a result Council set up three new‘Ginger Groups’, to strengthen scrutiny of scholarswhose research is in the fields of management andbusiness studies; cultural, communications, mediaand performance studies; and education. Themaximum number of UK resident Fellows electedannually was also raised, from 38 to 42. Changes tothe Academy’s Bye-Laws to enable thesedevelopments were duly approved by the PrivyCouncil in November 2012.



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ELECTIONS AT THE AGMJULY 2012

At the July 2012 Annual General Meeting, 38candidates were elected to the Fellowship, 15 to theCorresponding Fellowship (for those residentoutside the UK) and two to Honorary Fellowshipof the Academy. These elections brought the totalnumber of Fellows to 936, together with 305Corresponding Fellows and 21 Honorary Fellows.

FELLOWSHIP

PROFESSOR PETER BILLER Professor of History, University of

York

PROFESSOR JULIAN BIRKINSHAW Professor of Strategic and

International Management, London Business School

PROFESSOR OLIVER BRADDICK FMedSci Emeritus Professor of

Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

PROFESSOR CHRIS BREWIN Professor of Clinical Psychology,

UCL

PROFESSOR CHRIS CAREY Professor of Greek, UCL

PROFESSOR NICK CHATER Professor of Behavioural Science,

University of Warwick

PROFESSOR GILLIAN CLARK Professor Emerita and Senior

Research Fellow, University of Bristol

PROFESSOR HARRY COLLINS Distinguished Research

Professor, Cardiff University

PROFESSOR VINCENT CRAWFORD Drummond Professor of

Political Economy, University of Oxford

PROFESSOR JOHN DARWIN Beit Lecturer in the History of the

Commonwealth, University of Oxford

PROFESSOR ROBIN DENNELL Professor Emeritus, University of

Sheffield; Visiting Research Fellow, Chinese Academy of

Sciences

PROFESSOR RICHARD DYER Professor of Film Studies, King’s

College London; Professorial Fellow in Film Studies,

University of St Andrews

PROFESSOR SIMON FRANKLIN Professor of Slavonic Studies,

University of Cambridge

PROFESSOR KNUD HAAKONSSEN Emeritus Professor of

Intellectual History, University of Sussex

PROFESSOR JULIAN HOPPIT Astor Professor of British History,

UCL

PROFESSOR JANE HUMPHRIES Professor of Economic History,

University of Oxford

PROFESSOR PETER JACKSON Emeritus Professor of Medieval

History, Keele University

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PROFESSOR MICHAEL KEATING Professor of Politics,

University of Aberdeen

PROFESSOR HUGH KENNEDY Professor of Arabic, School of

Oriental and African Studies

PROFESSOR KATHLEEN KIERNAN OBE Professor of Social

Policy and Demography, University of York

PROFESSOR ROBERT LAYTON Emeritus Professor of

Anthropology, University of Durham

PROFESSOR JULIAN LE GRAND Richard Titmuss Professor of

Social Policy, London School of Economics

PROFESSOR NIGEL LEASK Regius Professor of English

Language and Literature, University of Glasgow

PROFESSOR PETER MACK Director of the Warburg Institute

PROFESSOR MILES OGBORN Professor of Geography,

University of London

PROFESSOR DAVID PARKER Edward Cadbury Professor of

Theology, University of Birmingham

PROFESSOR HUW PRICE Bertrand Russell Professor of

Philosophy, University of Cambridge

PROFESSOR SIMON SCHAFFER Professor of History of

Science, University of Cambridge

PROFESSOR DAVID SOLKIN Walter H Annenberg Professor of

History of Art, University of London

PROFESSOR MARTIN STOKES Professor of Music, University of

Oxford

PROFESSOR CHARLES TRIPP Professor of Politics with

reference to Middle East, SOAS

PROFESSOR CLAUDIO VITA-FINZI Research Associate, Natural

History Museum

PROFESSOR NEIL WALKER Regius Professor of Public Law

and the Law of Nature and Nations, University of Edinburgh

PROFESSOR HELEN WATANABE-O’KELLY Professor of German

Literature, University of Oxford

PROFESSOR PAUL WHITELEY Professor of Government,

University of Essex

PROFESSOR BENCIE WOLL Professor of Sign Language and

Deaf Studies, UCL

PROFESSOR NEIL WRIGLEY Professor of Geography, University

of Southampton

PROFESSOR LUCIA ZEDNER Professor of Criminal Justice,


CORRESPONDING FELLOWSHIP

PROFESSOR MICHAEL ALLEN Distinguished Professor

Emeritus, UCLA

PROFESSOR MARY CARRUTHERS Erich Maria Remarque

Professor of Literature, NYU

PROFESSOR ALAIN DE LIBERA Full Professor of History of

Medieval Philosophy, University of Geneva

PROFESSOR ELHANAN HELPMAN Galen L Stone Professor of

International Trade, Harvard University

PROFESSOR MICHEL JEANNERET Professeur Honoraire,

University of Geneva

PROFESSOR JOHN LANGBEIN Sterling Professor of Law and

Legal History, Yale University

PROFESSOR JEAN-PIERRE MAHÉ Directeur d’études à L’École

Practique des Hautes Études

PROFESSOR W J T MITCHELL Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished

Service Professor of English and Art History, University of

Chicago

PROFESSOR IAN MORRIS Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor

of Classics, Stanford University

PROFESSOR TORSTEN PERSSON Torsten and Ragnar

Soderberg Chair in Economic Sciences, Stockholm

University

PROFESSOR DENISE PUMAIN Professor in Geography,

University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne

PROFESSOR JOHN SCHEID Professor of Religion, Institutions

and Society in Ancient Rome, Collège de France

PROFESSOR MICHAEL STORPER Professor of Regional and

International Development, UCLA

PROFESSOR GERALD TOOMER Professor Emeritus of the

History of Mathematics, Brown University

PROFESSOR BERNARD WASSERSTEIN Harriet and Ulrich E

Meyer Professor of Modern European Jewish History,

University of Chicago

HONORARY FELLOWSHIP

LORD REES OF LUDLOW OM, FRS Master, Trinity College

Cambridge; Former President, the Royal Society

DAME FIONA REYNOLDS DBE Master of Emmanuel College,

Cambridge; Former Chief Executive, the National Trust

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PHILANTHROPICSUPPORT

“The Academy continued to benefit this year fromgenerous philanthropic supportfrom its Fellows and manyothers. We are grateful to allwho contributed. Philanthropicsupport will be increasingly

important in the years ahead.”

Professor Sarah WorthingtonChair of Fundraising GroupDowning Professor of the Laws of England,University of Cambridge

The Academy has been fortunate over the past yearto receive generous support from a number ofresearch councils, trusts and foundations, companiesand individuals, in addition to its core grant fromthe Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.This additional funding has enabled new initiatives,strengthened existing programmes, and enrichedlife at the Academy.

Fellows gave generously to the Academy this year.242 Fellows now contribute a regular sum by directdebit, which adds valuable income to the AcademyDevelopment Fund (ADF) and the research fund(ARF). The majority of Fellows who turned 70during the year agreed to continue to contribute thevalue of their subscription to the Academy. Supportfrom Fellows is invaluable as the Academy seeks toexpand its fundraising efforts to those outside itsimmediate circle of supporters and friends.

In 2012/13 the Academy was delighted to be ableto renew its agreement with the WolfsonFoundation to support a further four researchprofessorships over the next three years. TheWolfson Foundation has been a firm supporter fora number of years. It was also fortunate to be ableto establish a new international prize. The al-Rodhan Prize in Transcultural Understanding willbe awarded for the first time at a ceremony in2013. The prize, funded by the Nestar Foundation,and worth £25,000 annually, goes to KarenArmstrong for her books, The Great Transformation:The Beginning of our Religious Traditions (2006) andJerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (1996).

The Neil and Saras Smith Medal for Linguisticswill be awarded for the first time in 2014. The

prize will recognise lifetime achievement in thestudy of linguistics, and has been established by aninitial donation of £10,000 from Professor Smith(a distinguished theoretical linguist) and his wife,Saras. They have made further provision in theirWills to endow the medal in perpetuity.

A number of new legacy pledges have beenreceived in 2012/13, and a first ‘Legacy Lunch’ washeld at the Academy in September 2012. Theoccasion, to which all legators and their guests wereinvited, was a great success and it is intended tohold a similar event annually from now on. A first‘President’s Lunch’ also took place, to recognise themost generous supporters since the Academyrenewed its fundraising efforts in 2010.

As the Small Research Grants programmecelebrates its 50th Anniversary in 2012/13, theAcademy also celebrated 30 years’ support from theSir Ernest Cassel Educational Trust for the travelelement of the grants. We were also very grateful toreceive a further £500,000 from the LeverhulmeTrust towards the scheme. In early 2013 six furtherSmall Research Grants in the fields of educationand business and management were also awarded,thanks to a generous £200,000 commitment fromthe Sir John Cass’s Foundation, which is alsosupporting an annual lecture for the next five years.The inaugural lecture was given in April 2013 byProfessor Andrew Pettigrew FBA.

An appeal was launched in November 2012 toenhance the ‘Thank Offering to Britain Fund’,which was given to the British Academy in 1965by members of the Association of Jewish Refugees(AJR) in recognition of the support given byBritain to academic refugees from Hitler in the1930s. This is one of the Academy’s mostestablished partnerships and it is proud to beworking with the AJR community on this project.So far over £21,000 has been raised, and ambitiousplans are being developed for the next two years.

All of this work is supported by a FundraisingGroup, established in 2010, and the Academy ismost grateful to members of the group for theirpractical and philanthropic support.

Sir John Cass’s Foundation is generously supporting Small ResearchGrants and a new annual lecture series spanning education and business and management.



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Professor Geoffrey HoskingProfessor Deborah HowardProfessor Sir Michael HowardProfessor Christopher HoweProfessor Anne HudsonDame Olwen HuftonProfessor Jonathan IsraelProfessor Mary JacobusProfessor Gustav JahodaProfessor Ron JohnstonProfessor Emrys Jones †Professor Robert JonesProfessor Gabriel JosipoviciProfessor Sanford KadishProfessor Michael KauffmannProfessor Martin KempProfessor Ruth KempsonSir Anthony KennyProfessor Sir Ian KershawProfessor John KillenProfessor Anthony KingProfessor Paul KlempererProfessor Michael KnibbProfessor Adam KuperProfessor Nicola LaceyProfessor Aditi LahiriProfessor Michael LapidgeProfessor John LaverProfessor Geoffrey LeechProfessor Giulio LepschyProfessor Bernard LewisProfessor Ioan LewisProfessor Wolfgang LiebeschuetzProfessor Michael LiptonProfessor Baroness Ruth Lister ofBurtersettProfessor Richard LittleSir Geoffrey LloydProfessor Brian LoasbyProfessor David LockwoodProfessor Roger LonsdaleMr John LucasProfessor David LuscombeProfessor Diarmaid MacCulloch KtDr John MaddicottProfessor Herwig MaehlerProfessor Ivana MarkováProfessor Shula MarksProfessor David MarquandProfessor Peter MarshallProfessor Peter MathiasProfessor Peter MatthewsProfessor Henry Mayr-HartingProfessor Richard McCabeProfessor Christopher McCruddenProfessor Margaret McGowanDr Ross McKibbinProfessor Iain McLeanProfessor April McMahonProfessor David McMullenProfessor Sir Paul MellarsProfessor Sue MendusProfessor Toby MilsomLord Kenneth MorganProfessor Colin MorrisProfessor Laura MulveyLord Michael MustillSir Roger Mynors †*Dame Janet NelsonRevd Professor Ernest Nicholson

Thanks are owed to all donors fortheir generous support during2012/13

FellowsProfessor Robert AdamsProfessor Jonathan AlexanderProfessor Robin AlexanderProfessor Michael AllenProfessor Michael AndersonProfessor Sydney AngloProfessor Isobel ArmstrongProfessor Kenneth ArrowDr Margaret AstonProfessor Sir Tony AtkinsonProfessor Bernard BailynDr Alan BakerProfessor Stephen BannMr Nicolas BarkerProfessor Alan BarnardProfessor Timothy BarnesProfessor Anne BartonProfessor Charles BawdenProfessor James BeckfordDame Gillian BeerProfessor Emeritus Michael BellDr Margaret BentProfessor David BevingtonProfessor Kenneth BinmoreDr James BinnsDr Bonnie BlackburnProfessor Margaret BodenProfessor James BoultonProfessor Patrick BoydeProfessor Nick BoyleProfessor David BradingProfessor Richard BrealeyMr Robin BriggsLord Asa Briggs of LewesProfessor Richard BritnellProfessor Sarah BroadieDr Sebastian BrockProfessor Nicholas BrooksProfessor Archie BrownRevd Professor David BrownProfessor George BrownProfessor Peter BrownProfessor Malcolm BuddProfessor Charles BurnettProfessor Bruce CampbellSir Raymond CarrProfessor Richard CarwardineProfessor Terence CaveProfessor Stuart ClarkProfessor Peter ClarkeProfessor John ClelandProfessor Craig ClunasProfessor Bryony ColesProfessor John ColesProfessor Linda ColleyThe Rt Hon Lord Collins of MapesburyProfessor Michael CookRevd Professor Charles CranfieldSir Ross CranstonProfessor Michael CrawfordDr Stephen CretneyProfessor Trevor DadsonProfessor Sir Partha Dasgupta

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PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT

Professor Robin NisbetProfessor Patrick O’BrienProfessor Avner OfferProfessor Dawn OliverBaroness Onora O’NeillProfessor Timothy O’RiordanProfessor Lord Bhikhu ParekhProfessor Peter ParsonsProfessor David PhillipsonProfessor Richard PortesProfessor Brian PullanDr John ReaProfessor Jim ReasonProfessor Stephen Reckert †Professor Michael RedheadProfessor Jim ReedProfessor Francis ReynoldsMr Graham ReynoldsMiss Joyce ReynoldsProfessor Peter RhodesSir Rex RichardsProfessor Genevra RichardsonProfessor Sir Christopher RicksProfessor Sir Adam RobertsProfessor Ian RobertsProfessor Nicholas RoundProfessor Martin RudwickProfessor Alan RyanProfessor Emilie Savage-SmithProfessor Malcolm SchofieldDr Roger SchofieldProfessor Dana ScottProfessor Geoffrey SearleProfessor Christopher ShackleDr Elinor ShafferProfessor John ShepherdsonProfessor Sydney ShoemakerProfessor Ian SimmonsProfessor Quentin SkinnerProfessor Gerald SmithProfessor Neil SmithProfessor Anthony SnodgrassProfessor Richard SorabjiProfessor Jon StallworthyDr Ian SteadProfessor Mark SteedmanProfessor Peter SteinProfessor Hillel SteinerProfessor Alfred StepanLord Ian StewartbyDr Gerald StoneLord Stewart SutherlandProfessor Martin SwalesProfessor Richard SwinburneProfessor Charles TaylorProfessor Patricia ThaneProfessor Anthony ThiseltonProfessor David ThomasSir Keith ThomasProfessor Michael ThompsonProfessor Robert ThomsonProfessor Sir Guenter TreitelProfessor Yi-Fu TuanDr Richard TuckProfessor Nigel VincentProfessor Kenneth WallisProfessor Alex WalshamProfessor Peter WarrenProfessor Donald Cameron WattProfessor Lord Wedderburn of Charlton †

Professor John WellsSir Christopher WhiteProfessor John WilkesProfessor Hugh WilliamsonSir David WilsonProfessor Deirdre WilsonMr Nigel WilsonProfessor Donald WinchProfessor Peter WisemanProfessor Charles WithersProfessor Sarah WorthingtonSir Tony WrigleyProfessor Frances YoungAnonymous (11)

OthersMr Peter BrownMiss Jennifer HawtonDr Robin JacksonDr Tamara KolakowskaDr Anna MarmodoroAnonymous (1)

Donors to Association of JewishRefugees/British Academy AppealMr Henry AuskerinDr J BennetL F BierMr P BlockProfessor Leslie BrentMs Rozel CannanMiss Bettina CohnDr Henry CohnMrs Hanna CooperMr A CurtisMrs Stella CurzonMr Francis DeutschMr W DienemanProfessor Walter ElkanMrs Ilse EtonMrs Dora FlemingMr Ernst FraenkelMrs Alice FrankMiss Margot FraserMrs Ingeborg GassmanMr F GluecksmannMrs Hanna GoldschmidtDr H GoldsmithMr H J GoldsmithMrs Susanne GrahamMr Frederic HaasMr D HackelDr Peter HallgartenMr Peter HeldMr D HermanMs Susan HirtensteinMr A H IngramMr Cedric IsaacMr Gerald JarvisMrs Marietta JenkinsMr Peter JordanMr Vernon KatzMr Alan KayeMrs Thena KendallMs Hana KleinerMrs Josephine KnightMr Henry KuttnerMr M LandauMrs Phyllis LavyMr Stephen Lawson

Mrs Anita LeighMr Gerhard LeviMr Ludwig LevyMr Robin ListonEve and George LobleMr F LustigMr Nicholas MartonMrs Anne MarxMr Rolf Werner Mattes Ms Gerda MayerMs Rachel MendelMr S MendelssonMrs Alice MollerMrs Doris MoritzMr Peter NattMr G NewtonMs Beate PlanskoyMr E PlautMr G RaynardMrs Helen RobertsonMiss Edith RothschildMr Stephen SchickMr Steven SchrierMr G H SiglerMr H SipperMrs Lily SmithMrs Bronia SnowMr K G SpeyerDr F StarerMrs H SterneMr Max SulzbacherMr George SummerfieldProfessor Sir Guenter TreitelMs Ruth WalterMr A WaxmanMr Richard WolfeRichard and Susan WolffHenry and Ingrid WugaMs Ruth YoungAnonymous (38)

† indicates a person now deceased* indicates a donation from the estate of the deceased

OrganisationsAcademy of AthensThe Paul Balint Charitable TrustThe Briess Family Charitable TrustThe Sir Ernest Cassel Educational TrustThe Sir John Cass’s FoundationThe Sybilla and Leo Friedler Charitable TrustThe Leverhulme TrustModern Humanities Research Association(MHRA)Fondation NestarSage Publishing The Sino-British Fellowship TrustWiley-BlackwellThe Wolfson Foundation



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GOVERNANCEANDMANAGEMENTAS AT 31 MARCH 2013

The British Academy is a charity, registered withthe Charity Commission for England and Walesunder number 233176. The Officers and CouncilMembers, the Audit Committee and SeniorExecutives are listed on page 4. The principal placeof business (the registered office at 10–11 CarltonHouse Terrace) and professional advisors of thecharity are listed on page 67.

The British Academy is an independentcorporation, established in 1902 by a RoyalCharter from which it derives its legal status. ItsObjects were redefined in a Supplemental Chartergranted in its centenary year as: “the promotion ofthe study of the humanities and the socialsciences”. The Academy is thus the UK’s nationalcounterpart of the Royal Society, the UK’s nationalacademy for science. Its objectives, powers andframework of governance are set out in theCharter and its supporting Bye-Laws, as approvedby the Privy Council.

The Academy is a self-governing body, composedof more than 900 Fellows elected in recognition oftheir distinction as scholars and researchers in abranch of the humanities or social sciences. Up to38 new Fellows are elected each year (increasing to42 from 2013/14). Including Corresponding (i.e.overseas) and Honorary Fellows, there are morethan 1,200 Fellows of the British Academy.

The Academy endeavours to conduct its businessin accordance with the seven principles identifiedby the Committee on Standards in Public Life andwith the Guidance on Codes of Practice for BoardMembers of Public Bodies, issued by the CabinetOffice (Office of Public Service).

For many years the Academy has received supportfrom public funds. This comes from the Scienceand Research budget allocated by a grant from theDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Under the terms of the founding Charter, “TheGovernment of the Academy shall be vested in theCouncil and in the Fellows assembled in GeneralMeeting”. Council is the governing bodyresponsible for the finance, property, investmentsand general business of the Academy, and forsetting its strategic direction. It is chaired by the

President and composed of nine other HonoraryOfficers, elected annually at the General Meetingof Fellows, and 15 Ordinary Members, of whomfive are elected each year to serve for a three-yearterm. A Nominations Committee oversees thenomination of these Ordinary Members. None ofthe Officers or Members of Council receive anypayment apart from the reimbursement of expensesfor the work that they do for the Academy. Councilis responsible, through the Chief Executive andSecretary, for the administration and managementof the affairs of the Academy and is required topresent audited financial statements for eachfinancial year. New members of Council receive abriefing on their responsibilities as Charity Trusteesand guidance on good practice for board membersof public bodies.

The Council meets at least five times in eachacademic year. It is assisted by the ManagementAdvisory Committee, which provides a forum fordiscussion of all matters to do with the strategy,direction, organisation and financial management ofthe Academy, and advises the Treasurer and theChief Executive and Secretary on the conduct andmanagement of the Academy’s administrative andfinancial business. The Treasurer is the HonoraryOfficer principally responsible for the Academy’sfinancial affairs. The Chief Executive and Secretary,as principal Executive Officer of the Academy, isresponsible, in conjunction with the Treasurer, forconducting and managing the Academy’s businessin accordance with the policies and proceduresprescribed by Council.

Specialist committees, usually chaired by an electedVice-President, oversee each of the areas ofprincipal activity, mapped to the Academy’sobjectives and strategic priorities:

• Research Programmes and Higher Education policy, coordinated by the Research and HECommittee with separate components forresearch awards and research projects

• International Engagement, overseen by the International Engagement Committee (IEC)and the Committee for British Academy-Sponsored Institutes and Societies (BASIS)

• Communications and External Relations, overseen by the Strategic CommunicationsCommittee (SCC), the PublicationsCommittee, and the Events and PrizesCommittee (EPC)

• Fellowship Programmes, supervised and shaped by the Fellowship and Structures Committee,the 18 Sections of the Academy (representingthe different disciplines) and the two Groups ofHumanities and Social Sciences

• Public Policy engagement, overseen by thePublic Policy Fellows Group and advised by thePolicy Centre Advisory Group



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GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT

In addition, there is an Audit Committee, made upof three Fellows and two external members, and anInvestment Management Committee, whichsupplies advice on investment strategy andmanagement. A Fundraising Group exploresopportunities for private funds.

PUBLIC BENEFIT REPORTING

The Council, as formal Trustees of the Academy,operates in accordance with the Charities Act 2011and this Annual Report meets the requirement inthe Act to set out the public benefits of theAcademy’s work. The Council is also satisfied that ithas complied with the duties set out in Section 17of the Act to have due regard to the public benefitguidance published by the Charity Commission.

RISK MANAGEMENT

The Council has identified and reviewed the majorrisks to which the British Academy is exposed andis satisfied that systems are in place to mitigatethem. A risk register is monitored by seniormanagement and the Audit Committee, andreviewed and formally adopted by the Councilannually. The review of risk management isincluded in the terms of reference of the AuditCommittee.

GRANT MAKING POLICY

The Academy’s grant making policy and proceduresare set out in its Code of Practice forConsideration of Research Proposals. The Academyissues guidelines on the information to be suppliedby applicants, details of the criteria against whichapplications are assessed, and the process andtimescale for the assessment of applications.Applications are judged on their academic meritthrough a stringent process of peer review byappropriately qualified experts.

Recommendations are passed to the relevantcommittee for the final decision on awards. Allapplications receive careful scrutiny by assessors,who are normally drawn from subject-specificexperts within the Academy’s Fellowship. Appealsmay not be made against the academic judgementof the Academy’s assessors, panels, or committees.An appeal may be made on the sole ground ofimproper procedure. Assessors are required todeclare actual or potential conflicts of interest.Fellows who wish to apply for a grant during theperiod in which they are serving in any capacity asan assessor must abstain from any involvement inthe competition to which they are applying. TheCode of Practice is reviewed annually.

British Academy staff outside Carlton House Terrace.



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FINANCIALREVIEW

Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman presenting one of the Academy’s 2012 Schools Language Awards to students from the Manchester Chinese Centre.



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FINANCIALREVIEW OF THEYEAR 2012/13

“The Academy’s overallfinancial position has improvedmarkedly over the past twoyears, with significantinvestment in the AcademyDevelopment Fund (ADF). Thishas been achieved during a

time of challenging financial stringency andrising demand for both resource and activity.”

Professor Michael Fulford Honorary TreasurerProfessor of Archaeology, University of Reading

RESULTS FOR THE YEAR

The financial statements for 2012/13 reflect theAcademy’s success in fulfilling its charitable objectsand meeting financial targets during a challengingyear. Total income amounted to £31.3m. Some£27m, the largest part of the gross income, came inthe form of government grant from theDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills(BIS) and was fully invested in research andscholarship across the humanities and social sciences.Returned grants were also fully reinvested. £30.9mwas expended in total, leaving a net inflow of fundsof nearly £0.4m for the year. Net investment gainsof £1.1m for the year took the overall net additionsto £1.5m. Total funds therefore amounted to£16.3m at 31 March 2013, up from £14.8m.

Trading activity conducted through the Academy’swholly owned subsidiary, Clio Enterprises Ltd(‘Clio’), generated a welcome surplus of £650k inits second year, largely through commercial successachieved during the London Olympics. This sumwas in turn donated, and allocated to the ADF insupport of the Academy’s charitable objectives.Timely additions during the year to investmentcapital played a significant part too. They ensuredthe Academy benefited well from an upturn in assetvalues and the resulting ADF investment gain(£0.4m) takes the value of the ADF to nearly£5.1m, a £1.1m increase in total. This represents asubstantial rise in those funds over whose use theAcademy has unfettered discretion and increasesthe Academy’s financial independence, identified asa key – and continuing – long-term strategicfinancial objective. In two years the ADF’s value hasincreased from £3.1m to £5.1m, a 65% increase.

Moreover, the added capital generates more incomefrom which the Academy may draw. It does so tocover further investment in its fundraising activity.The ADF thus supports another of the Academy’sstrategic aims, the diversification of its income viafundraising.

Following the expansion into 11 Carlton HouseTerrace, it was even more important to identifyongoing costs of repairs and maintenance. A rollingprogramme was established in 2011/12, with asignificant rise in expenditure for the second yearrunning. Staffing costs also increased, largely as aresult of the Academy’s strategic decision to placegreater emphasis on its fundraising and incomegeneration activity. New financial systems wereimplemented during the year, greatly improvingthe clarity of management information andfinancial planning and control. The Academy alsoprovided overseas BASIS institutes with the same.

Another important aspect of Clio Enterprises isthat, as well as generating much needed income, inthe face of challenging economic conditions, it alsohelps the Academy deliver its mission of supportingits disciplines. It provides a framework throughwhich conferences and events can be organised byuniversities, learned societies, think tanks andcharities, as well as the Academy being open tobookings from corporates and private individuals.Furthermore, income from Clio trading activityalleviates the cut in BIS operating grant byprivately subsidising certain expenditure which afull grant would otherwise cover. The cut inoperating grant continues to bite ever more deeply,making a substantive and increasing subsidy fromprivate resources inevitable, given the Academy’shigh fixed costs. The net addition to privateresource in such circumstances is therefore all themore noteworthy.

STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES

The financial statements are presented in theformat required by the Charity Commission’srevised Statement of Recommended Practice(SORP 2005). The Statement of FinancialActivities shows the gross income from all sourcesand the split of activity between restricted andunrestricted funds. These are described in greaterdetail below.

INCOMING RESOURCES

BIS again provided the majority of the Academy’sincome (down from 91% to 86% this year as aproportion of total income) via grant, whichamounted to £27m (also £27m in 2011/12).Notable increases in income came from grants fromother bodies such as the Leverhulme Trust, frominvestment income, and from trading activity.Income from trading activity, already noted above,increased sharply. Clio Enterprises Ltd took £2.2min its second year of trading (up from £1.4m).



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RESOURCES EXPENDED

Charitable ActivitiesAcademy resources were, in accordance with theterms of the BIS grant, chiefly expended ondelivering a wide range of support and funding forresearch and researchers, alongside policy andpublic engagement activity. In 2012/13 totalcharitable activity expenditure rose to £29.1mfrom £28.7m last year.

The principal strands of charitable expenditurewere as follows:

Research ProgrammesSpending on research (including small grants) andresearch posts amounted to £16.8m.

International and Institutional ProgrammesAcademy funding for international programmes,which includes activity focused on overseasresearch and support for Academy-sponsoredSchools, Institutes and Societies, came to £7m.

Excellence and Engagement ActivitiesThe Academy also resources an annual programmeof public engagement activities, delivering lectures,symposia and other events contributing to greaterpublic understanding of the humanities and socialsciences, together with a programme of highereducation and public policy activity. Expenditurehere amounted to £1.9m.

Languages and Quantitative Skills£1.3m was expended on supporting languages andthe use of quantitative methods in the humanitiesand social sciences.

Other ActivitiesAs well as the funds provided by government, theAcademy administers funds on other organisations’behalf. These amounted to £1.4m, compared to£1m in 2011/12.

Property CostsProperty costs relating to maintenance, repair anddepreciation amounted to £444k.

Governance CostsFurther charitable activity costs, in the form ofgovernance costs, stood at £186k for the year, 0.6%of total resources expended.

Costs of Generating FundsActivity here encompasses investment management,publications, the rent and hire of rooms and Academydevelopment. These costs rose from £1.2m to £1.9mlargely as a result of costs from increased fundraisingactivity and the Olympic period.

Costs AllocationDirect and indirect costs are attributed to activitieson a consistent and suitable basis. Staff costs for theyear increased to £1.9m, up from £1.7m in2011/12. The Academy allocated more staffingresource to fundraising.

BALANCE SHEET

The Academy’s total net assets rose from £14.8mto £16.3m, largely as a result of investment gainsand surplus generated from trading activity. TheAcademy again reviewed the balance of its holdingsof cash and securities during the year and invested afurther £1m in its investment portfolio. Netcurrent assets of the Academy remain broadly as lastyear at some £2.7m (2011/12: £3.5m) withliquidity remaining sound.

FUNDS AND RESERVES

General FundsAs already noted, Clio Enterprises Ltd now handlesthe Academy’s trading activity including incomegenerated from room hire, office rent and fees andcertain bank interest. After the transfer of thesurplus from Clio and certain historicalaccumulated surpluses, the balance on the GeneralFund now stands at £200k.

DESIGNATED FUNDS

Academy Development FundChief among designated funds is the AcademyDevelopment Fund (ADF). The intention increating the Fund was to enable the Academy totake new initiatives at its unfettered discretion.Proposals for the use of the Fund are reviewedannually by Council. The ADF is funded byFellows’ subscriptions and donations along withinvestment income generated from capital and, forthe second year running, by surplus from theAcademy’s trading company, Clio Enterprises Ltd.Expenditure charged to this fund includes costs forfundraising, Fellows’ events, library support and thePictures, Portraits and Decorations programme. Thefund currently stands at £5.1m, a marked increaseon the previous year.

PublicationsOther designated funds include the Academy’sPublications Fund. Annual direct production costsare charged to it and are funded by the incomegenerated by Academy publications. The fund nowstands at £275k, the intention being to hold theequivalent of a year’s direct production expenditurein reserve.

Other FundsOther designated funds include building relatedreserves to provide funds for significantredecoration and repairs. Such funds total some£352k. There are also funds to assist withorganisational and IT development, the latter toassist in funding the Fellows database, OnlineGrants and development of IT systems. Thesedevelopment funds total some £153k.

FINANCIAL REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2012/13



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RESTRICTED FUNDS

The largest fund to note here is the Carlton HouseTerrace property fund, standing at some £2.4m.The decrease of some £228k is due to thedepreciation charge on the expanded property.

There are a number of restricted investment andincome funds totalling some £6.9m. These providefunds for certain restricted purposes, the detail ofwhich may be found in the notes to the accounts.

Balances of £174k remained at the year end,principally pertaining to the Lexicon of GreekPersonal Names Fund and the Wolfson ResearchFellowships Fund.

ENDOWMENT FUNDS

There are two permanent endowment funds, thelarger of which is the Webster Fund. It now standsat £366k. The Rose Mary Crawshay Prize forEnglish Literature stands at £28k.

POLICIES

Reserves PolicyUnrestricted Funds (General and DesignatedFunds) have a combined balance at 31 March 2013of £6.4m, up from £5.5m last year. The largestDesignated Fund, the Academy Development Fund(ADF), was established in 1991. The Academy isfree to devote the income of the ADF to whateverobject it deems fit. Council views the long-termgrowth of the fund as key to strengthening theAcademy’s financial independence. As stated above,the ADF has grown from £4m last year (excludingsums invested in tangible fixed assets) to £5.1m, anincrease of some 28%. Taking General Funds andthe ADF to be the Academy’s free reserves (againexcluding any investment in tangible fixed assets),these free reserves have grown from £4.3m lastyear to £5.3m as at 31 March 2013, an increase of23%.

InvestmentsThe Academy’s primary investment objective is toachieve long-term capital growth and an annualincome set by Council. To achieve this, the Academyapplies a proportion of its funds in equity and/orequity-related investments balanced by an elementof lower risk, fixed income generating investments.Since asset valuations are constantly affected byfactors such as changing discount rates, liquidity andconfidence levels, achievement of the Academy’sinvestment objectives is assessed over the longerterm. Council is advised on investment matters byan Investment Management Committee chaired bythe Treasurer and attended by at least one externalmember with professional fund managementexperience. £10.4m of the total of £11m invested isheld in several tracker funds managed by BlackRockAdvisors (UK) Ltd. BlackRock funds provided areturn of 16% for the year. In addition to these

investments, the Marc Fitch Fund (£0.6m), isseparately managed and invested by Lombard Odier;funds are also invested in bank and money marketaccounts, providing liquidity and additionalinvestment income.

VOLUNTEERS

The Academy is critically dependent on thevoluntary services of its Fellows who, whether asOfficers, Chairmen or members of the Sections,Committees and Sub-committees, or as referees andassessors, perform a wide and crucial range of tasksfor which they are wholly unremunerated outsidethe recovery of their direct expenses. The Academyalso consults external academic experts and reliesextensively on the services and goodwill ofnumerous referees and assessors outside itsFellowship and external members of the InvestmentManagement and Audit Committees. All thisconstitutes an unquantifiable voluntary contributionwithout which the Academy would be unable tofulfil its objectives.

AUDITORS

A resolution for the appointment of BDO LLP forthe ensuing year will be proposed at the AnnualGeneral Meeting.

Approved by Council on 18 June 2013

PROFESSOR MICHAEL FULFORDTreasurer



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STATEMENT OF COUNCIL’SRESPONSIBILITIES

Council is responsible, through the Chief Executiveand Secretary, for the administration andmanagement of the affairs of the Academy and isrequired to present audited financial statements foreach financial year.

Council is responsible for keeping properaccounting records which disclose with reasonableaccuracy at any time the financial position of theAcademy and enable it to ensure that the financialstatements are prepared in accordance with theStatement of Recommended Practice ‘Accountingand Reporting by Charities’ (revised 2005)(‘SORP’) and other relevant accounting standards.

In addition, within the terms and conditions of aFinancial Memorandum agreed between theDepartment for Business, Innovation and Skills andthe Council of the Academy, Council is required,through the Chief Executive and Secretary asAccounting Officer, to prepare financial statementsfor each financial year which give a true and fairview of the state of affairs of the Academy and ofthe surplus or deficit and cash flows for that year.

In causing the financial statements to be prepared,Council has ensured that:

• suitable accounting policies have beenselected and applied consistently

• judgements and estimates are made that arereasonable and prudent

• applicable accounting standards have beenfollowed, subject to any material departuresdisclosed and explained in the financial statements

• financial statements are prepared on thegoing concern basis

Council has taken steps to:

• ensure that funds from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) are usedonly for the purposes for which they have beengiven and in accordance with the FinancialMemorandum with BIS and any otherconditions which it may from time to timeprescribe

• ensure that there are appropriate financialand management controls in place tosafeguard public funds and funds from othersources

• safeguard the assets of the Academy and prevent and detect fraud

• secure the economical, efficient andeffective management of the Academy’s resources and expenditure



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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’SREPORT TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY

We have audited the financial statements of theBritish Academy for the year ended 31 March 2013which comprise the consolidated statement offinancial activities, the consolidated and parentbalance sheets, the consolidated cash flow statementand the related notes. The financial reportingframework that has been applied in theirpreparation is applicable law and United KingdomAccounting Standards (United Kingdom GenerallyAccepted Accounting Practice).

This report is made solely to the charity’s trustees,as a body, in accordance with the Charities Act2011. Our audit work has been undertaken so thatwe might state to the charity’s trustees thosematters we are required to state to them in anauditor’s report and for no other purpose. To thefullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept orassume responsibility to anyone other than thecharity and the charity’s trustees as a body, for ouraudit work, for this report, or for the opinions wehave formed.

RESPECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES AND AUDITOR

As explained more fully in the Statement ofTrustees’ Responsibilities, the trustees areresponsible for the preparation of the financialstatements and for being satisfied that they give atrue and fair view.

We have been appointed as auditors under section144 of the Charities Act 2011 and report inaccordance with regulations made under section154 of that Act. Our responsibility is to audit andexpress an opinion on the financial statements inaccordance with applicable law and InternationalStandards on Auditing (UK and Ireland). Thosestandards require us to comply with the AuditingPractices Board’s Ethical Standards for Auditors.

SCOPE OF THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

A description of the scope of an audit of financialstatements is provided on the Financial ReportingCouncil’s website atwww.frc.org.uk/auditscopeukprivate.

OPINION ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

In our opinion the financial statements:

• give a true and fair view of the state of the group’s and the parent charity’s affairs as at 31March 2013 and of the group’s incomingresources and application of resources for theyear then ended;

• have been properly prepared in accordance with United Kingdom Generally AcceptedAccounting Practice; and

• have been prepared in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011.

OPINION ON OTHER MATTER AS REQUIRED BY BIS GRANT LETTER

In our opinion, in all material aspects, the grantpayments received from the Department forBusiness, Innovation and Skills (BIS) have beenapplied for the purposes set out in the Grant Letterand in accordance with the terms and conditions of the grant.

MATTERS ON WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT BY EXCEPTION

We have nothing to report in respect of thefollowing matters where the Charities Act 2011requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

• the information given in the Trustees’ AnnualReport is inconsistent in any material respect with the financial statements; or

• sufficient accounting records have not beenkept; or

• the parent charity financial statements are not inagreement with the accounting records and returns; or

• we have not received all the information and explanations we require for our audit.

BDO LLPStatutory auditor London, United KingdomDate: 24 June 2013

BDO LLP is eligible to act as an auditor in termsof section 1212 of the Companies Act 2006.

BDO LLP is a limited liability partnershipregistered in England and Wales (with registerednumber OC305127).



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Incoming resources

Incoming resources from generated

funds

Voluntary income – donations

Activities for generating funds

Conferences/events

Investment income

Other

Incoming resources from charitable

activities

Grants receivable

Other incoming resources

Total incoming resources

Resources expendedCost of generating funds

Investment management fees

Other

Total cost of generating funds

Total incoming resources availablefor charitable application

Charitable activities

Grants and awards

Governance costs

Total charitable activities

Total resources expended

Net incoming/(outgoing) resourcesbefore transfersNet transfers between funds

Net incoming/(outgoing) resources before other recognised gains and losses

Other recognised gains and losses

Net gains/(losses) on investments

Net movement in funds

Fund balances brought forward

at 1 April 2012

TOTAL FUNDS CARRIEDFORWARD AT 31 MARCH 2013

Notes

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

9

10

9

18

14

18

DesignatedFunds

£

66,306

-98,017

290,512

-123,299

578,134

4,093 443,327

447,420

130,714

350,280 -

350,280

797,700

(219,566)731,344

511,778

389,329

901,107

5,269,877

6,170,984

RestrictedFunds

£

17,566

-215,632

1,175

28,734,235 65,013

29,033,621

12,360 408,126

420,486

28,613,135

28,538,895 182,994

28,721,889

29,142,375

(108,754)-

(108,754)

699,641

590,887

8,939,962

9,530,849

EndowmentFunds

£

-

---

--

-

--

-

-

--

-

-

--

-

43,562

43,562

350,971

394,533

2013Funds

£

83,872

1,637,722 339,329 291,687

28,734,235 188,312

31,275,157

16,453 1,836,375

1,852,828

29,422,329

28,889,175 185,794

29,074,969

30,927,797

347,360-

347,360

1,132,532

1,479,892

14,816,474

16,296,366

2012Funds

£

61,512

909,274

314,336

270,870

28,073,919

153,344

29,783,255

14,543

1,150,072

1,164,615

28,618,640

28,565,869

172,490

28,738,359

29,902,974

(119,719)

-

(119,719)

(195,179)

(314,898)

15,131,372

14,816,474

GeneralFunds

£

-

1,637,72225,680

0

--

1,663,402

-984,922

984,922

678,480

-2,800

2,800

987,722

675,680 (731,344)

(55,664)

-

(55,664)

255,664

200,000

All of the above results are derived from continuing activities. There are no other recognised gains or losses other than those stated above.

YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES




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FIXED ASSETSTangible assets

Investments

CURRENT ASSETSDebtors

Cash at bank and in hand

CREDITORSAmounts falling due within one year

NET CURRENT ASSETS

CREDITORSAmounts falling due after more than one year

NET ASSETS

Represented by:

General fundsDesignated fundsRestricted fundsEndowment funds

Notes

13

14

15

16

17

18

Group

2012

£

2,891,675

8,827,735

11,719,410

631,671

4,553,067

5,184,738

(1,726,912)

3,457,826

(360,762)

14,816,474

255,664

5,269,877

8,939,962

350,971

14,816,474

Group2013

£

2,837,13410,959,790

13,796,924

347,5626,994,298

7,341,860

(4,594,093)

2,747,767

(248,325)

16,296,366

200,0006,170,9849,530,849

394,533

16,296,366

Academy2013

£

2,837,13410,959,800

13,796,934

675,2236,602,483

7,277,706

(4,529,949)

2,747,757

(248,325)

16,296,366

200,0006,170,9849,530,849

394,533

16,296,366

The Financial Statements on pages 50–65 were approved and authorised for issue on 18 June 2013 and signed by:

Professor Michael Fulford Dr Robin JacksonTreasurer Chief Executive and Secretary

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETAS AT 31 MARCH 2013

Academy

2012

£

2,891,675

8,827,745

11,719,420

1,157,738

4,218,139

5,375,877

(1,918,061)

3,457,816

(360,762)

14,816,474

255,664

5,269,877

8,939,962

351,971

14,817,474



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Reconciliation of operating surplus to net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities

Operating surplus/(deficit) for the yearInvestment incomeFinancial investmentDepreciation chargesDepreciation charge relating to revaluationLoss on disposalDecrease/(increase) in debtorsIncrease in creditors

Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities

Cash flow statement

Net cash inflow/(outflow) from operating activities

Returns on investments Capital expenditure and financial investmentCapital lease payments

Increase/(decrease) in cash and liquid resources

Reconciliation of net cash inflow/(outflow)to movement in net funds

Change in cash and liquid resources

Cash and liquid resources at 1 April 2012

Cash and liquid resources at 31 March 2013

Notes to cash flow statement

Note (i) Gross cash flowsReturns on investments

Investment income

Capital expenditure and financial investment

Payments to acquire tangible fixed assets and leasehold improvements in 2013Financial investment/receiptsPayments to acquire investments Receipts from sales of investments

Note (ii) Analysis of change in net funds

Cash in hand, at bankCash held with investment managers

CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOW STATEMENT

2013£

347,360(339,329)

(1,030,000)282,440

-15,010

284,109 2,710,274

2,269,864

2,269,864

339,329(167,469)(25,856)

2,415,868

2,415,868

4,729,114

7,144,982

339,329

(172,583)1,030,000

(1,306,665)281,779

(167,469)

Cashflows

£

2,441,231(25,363)

2,415,868

2012£

(119,719)(314,336)

-299,968

563-

(13,146)81,381

(65,289)

(65,289)

314,336(417,177)(15,846)

(183,976)

(183,976)

4,913,090

4,729,114

314,336

(42,689)150,381

(780,382)255,513

(417,177)

At 31 March2013

£

6,994,298150,684

7,144,982


At 1 April2012

£

4,553,067176,047

4,729,114



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NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

NOTES TO THE ACCOUNTS

1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES

a. Basis of Preparation of the AccountsThe Annual Report, incorporating the financialstatements for the year ended 31 March 2013,has been prepared in accordance with theAcademy’s Royal Charter, and in compliancewith the Charities Act 2011, the Statement ofRecommended Practice ‘Accounting andReporting by Charities’ (‘SORP 2005’), andwith applicable accounting standards.

b. Historical Cost ConventionThe financial statements have been preparedunder the historical cost convention, asmodified for the inclusion of investment assets.

c. Group Financial StatementsThe financial statements consolidate the resultsof the charity and its wholly owned subsidiaryClio Enterprises Ltd on a line-by-line basis. Aseparate Statement of Financial Activities forthe charity itself is not presented because thecharity has taken advantage of the exemptionsafforded by paragraph 397 of the SORP.

d. Incoming ResourcesThe specific bases for accounting for incomeare described below. In general terms, income isaccounted for on a receivable basis, gross ofrelated expenditure. Income is only recognisedwhere there is evidence of entitlement, where itis virtually certain that income will be received,and there is reasonable certainty of the amount.

• Voluntary income includes donations whichare accounted for in the year in which theyare received.

• Activities for generating funds include income receivable from the rent and hire ofrooms.

• Investment income is included in the Statement of Financial Activities in the yearin which it is receivable.

• Grants receivable are recognised when entitlement to the grant is confirmed, andalso include returned grants which areaccounted for on receipt.

• Other incoming resources consist of subscriptions, including income taxrecoverable.

• Capital grants are recognised in the year inwhich they are received and are accounted for in a separate fund.

e. Resources ExpendedExpenditure is recognised on an accruals basis,gross of any related income. Where costs cannotbe directly attributed to particular categoriesthey have been allocated to activities on aheadcount basis.

• Costs of generating funds include expenditure directly incurred in generatingincome from the publications programme,subsidiary activity, fundraising andinvestments.

• Grants are charged to the Statement of Financial Activities when a constructiveobligation exists not withstanding that theymay be paid in future periods.

• Governance costs include those associatedwith the management of the Academy’sassets and with constitutional and statutoryrequirements.

f. Operating LeasesRental costs under operating leases are chargedto the Statement of Financial Activities, as thecharges are incurred, over the lease periods.

g. Tangible Fixed AssetsDepreciation is provided on all tangible fixedassets at rates calculated to write off the cost ofeach asset over its expected useful life, asfollows:

• Furniture and equipment at cost of up to£2,000 are fully written off within the yearof purchase

• Furniture and equipment - over 5 years• Leasehold improvements - 5%• Items which are fully depreciated are treated

as disposals• Items under finance leases are capitalised

and written off over the term of the lease

h. InvestmentsListed investments are included in the financialstatements at market value at the balance sheetdate.

Gains/losses on disposal of investments andrevaluation of investments are recognised in theyear of gain or loss and are allocated to thefunds to which the investments relate inaccordance with their percentage share of theinvestments.




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i. Stocks of PublicationsCosts of publications are written off in theStatement of Financial Activities when incurred.Stocks of books donated to the Academy for itslibrary are not valued within the accounts.

At 31 March 2013 the estimated value of stocksof publications not included in the balancesheet was £136,149 (2012: £105,341), beingthe lower of cost and net realisable value.

j. PensionsThe Academy participates in the Super-annuation Arrangements of the University ofLondon (‘SAUL’), which is a funded definedbenefit scheme. The scheme is contracted-outof the Second State Pension. The scheme isvalued formally every three years byprofessionally qualified and independentactuaries using the Projected Unit method.Informal reviews of the scheme’s position arecarried out between formal valuations.

k. Liquid ResourcesLiquid Resources are represented by Trackerdeposits.

l. FundsGeneral Funds are those which are available foruse at the Council’s discretion in the furtheranceof the Academy’s objects.

Designated Funds are unrestricted funds setaside for unrestricted purposes and which wouldotherwise form part of General Funds. Details ofthe nature and purpose of each designated fundare set out in note 18.

Restricted Funds are funds that are subject torestrictions imposed by donors and are appliedin accordance with these restrictions. Details ofthe nature and purpose of each restricted fundare set out in note 18.

Endowment funds represent those assets whichmust be held permanently by the Academy.Income arising from Endowment funds isallocated to the corresponding named individual restricted funds in accordance withtheir percentage share of the investments andapplied for the purposes for which they wereoriginally given.

m. TaxationThe Academy is exempt from income tax, corporation tax or capital gains tax on incomederived from its primary purpose trading orcharitable activities.

Clio Enterprises Ltd donates its profits to theAcademy.

n. Heritage AssetsIn accordance with FRS15 and FRS30, heritage assets acquired before April 2009 havenot been capitalised, since reliable estimates ofcost or value are not available on a basis thatwould justify the costs of establishing them. Thethreshold for capitalising such assets is anyamount greater than 1% of total assets. Heritageassets are not depreciated since their longeconomic life and high residual value mean thatany depreciation would not be material.Donated assets are accounted for at theirvaluation at the time of donation.



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2. FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF THE CHARITYThe consolidated statement of financial activities includes the results of the charity’s wholly owned subsidiary, Clio Enterprises Ltd.

The summary financial performance of the charity alone is:

Incoming resourcesGift aid from subsidiary company

Cost of generating fundsCharitable activitiesGovernance costs

Net incoming/(outgoing) resources

Net gain/(loss) on investment

Net movement in fundsFund balances brought forward at 1 April 2012

Total funds carried forward at 31 March 2013

3. VOLUNTARY INCOME

Donations

4. ACTIVITIES FOR GENERATING FUNDSThe wholly owned trading subsidiary Clio Enterprises Ltd was incorporated in the United Kingdom on 7 April 2011 andhandles the conferences and events activity of the Academy. It donates all of its profits to the charity by gift aid, as suchno corporation tax is payable. The charity owns the entire share capital of £10. A summary of the trading results is shownbelow.

The summary financial performance of the subsidiary alone is:

TurnoverCost of sales and administration costsInterest receivable

Net profitAmount gift aided to the charity

Retained in subsidiary

The assets and liabilites of the subsidiary were:

Current assetsCurrent liabilities

Shareholder’s funds/total net assets

2013£

29,637,435 650,000

30,287,435

867,906 28,889,175

182,994

29,940,075

347,360

1,132,532

1,479,89214,816,474

16,296,366

2013£

83,872

2013£

2,152,652 (1,503,052)

400

650,000 (650,000)

-

463,555 (463,545)

10

2012

£

28,873,981

493,257

29,367,238

751,353

28,565,869

169,735

29,486,957

(119,719)

(195,179)

(314,898)

15,131,372

14,816,474

2012

£

61,512

2012

£

1,397,093

(903,879)

43

493,257

(493,257)

-

656,807

(656,797)

10



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5. INVESTMENT INCOME

Investment incomeBank interest

UKBondsEquitiesCashBank and deposit interest

OverseasEquitiesBonds

6. OTHER ACTIVITIES

PublicationsOther

7. GRANTS RECEIVABLE

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Main GrantGrants returned awarded in prior years

Other grants

Grants for funds administered by the Academy

8. OTHER INCOMING RESOURCES

SubscriptionsSundry income and recharges

2013£

300,49038,839

339,329

49,566124,410

-38,839

212,815

126,514-

126,514

339,329

2013£

291,687-

291,687

2013£

27,005,000332,287

196,373

27,533,6601,200,575

28,734,235

2013£

95,16893,144

188,312

2012

£

264,315

50,021

314,336

6,361

87,418

78,526

50,021

222,326

89,599

2,411

92,010

314,336

2012

£

230,114

40,756

270,870

2012

£

27,001,000

213,234

202,745

27,416,979

656,940

28,073,919

2012

£

84,313

69,031

153,344



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9. TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED

Costs of generating fundsInvestment managers’ feesOther:Conferences/eventsPublicationsAcademy developmentOther

Total cost of generating funds

Charitable activitiesGrants, awards and activitiesResearch programmes

Early career fellowshipsMid-career fellowships

International engagementBASISIPC

Excellence and engagementLanguage and quantitative skills

Grants and prizesRestricted fundsFunds administeredProperty

Total grants, awards and activities

Governance costs

Total charitable activities

Total resources expended

Grants/awards/

activities£

-

840,090

-

-

-

840,090

10,184,000

6,211,222

4,302,379

2,150,335

937,897

1,177,136

139,781

1,185,625

-

26,288,375

-

26,288,375

27,128,465

Staff costs

£

-

144,832

145,506

185,632

-

475,970

133,421

133,380

157,007

182,255

607,936

103,721

-

22,802

-

1,340,522

100,779

1,441,301

1,917,271

Depreciation£

-

-

1,906

2,694

-

4,600

2,043

2,042

2,323

2,623

8,492

1,288

-

610

257,322

276,743

1,097

277,840

282,440

Otherdirectcosts

£

16,453

-

256,552

70,354

-

343,359

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

186,740

186,740

38,932

225,672

569,031

Supportcosts

£

-

-

78,290

110,519

-

188,809

83,835

83,770

95,305

107,596

348,389

52,846

-

25,054

-

796,795

44,986

841,781

1,030,590

Total2013

£

16,453

984,922 482,254 369,199

-

1,852,828

10,403,2996,430,414

4,557,014 2,442,809

1,902,7141,334,991

139,7811,234,091

444,062

28,889,175

185,794

29,074,969

30,927,797

Total

2012

£

14,543

413,262

483,983

234,327

18,500

1,164,615

10,068,984

7,476,137

4,726,538

2,150,683

1,862,942

916,571

262,429

732,140

369,445

28,565,869

172,490

28,738,359

29,902,974



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INSTITUTION


University of Cambridge

British School at Rome

University College London

University of Edinburgh

King’s College London

British School at Athens

Council for British Research in the Levant

University of Bristol

British Institute at Ankara

London School of Economics

University of Warwick

British Institute in Eastern Africa

School of Oriental and African Studies

University of York

University of Manchester

Royal Holloway, University of London

University of Southampton

University of Essex

University of Leeds

Queen’s University of Belfast

University of Leicester

University of Birmingham

University of Sheffield

University of Bradford

University of Liverpool

Loughborough University

Goldsmiths, University of London

University of Glasgow

Council for British Archaeology

University of Kent

University of Exeter

University of St Andrews

Durham University

University of Nottingham

University of Reading

Birkbeck, University of London

British Institute for Persian Studies

Bangor University

Lancaster University

Cardiff University

Medical Research Council

Queen Mary, University of London

Economic and Social Research Council

University of Surrey

Oxford Brookes University

Swansea University

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

University of Sussex

Society for Libyan Studies

£

3,636,730

1,920,833

1,291,430

1,203,608

1,004,456

792,042

780,244

718,326

607,145

559,880

534,595

488,059

437,842

425,662

408,880

400,860

346,825

336,524

321,194

302,334

277,551

275,952

268,171

255,833

251,668

249,077

241,256

226,388

220,046

218,292

209,662

203,426

200,607

186,071

177,171

173,830

172,450

169,028

139,195

130,764

129,363

127,702

113,435

112,942

111,113

110,244

108,565

104,208

101,764

84,640

9. TOTAL RESOURCES EXPENDED (CONTINUED)

GRANTS PAID TO INSTITUTIONS

The 50 largest total grants payable toinstitutions in 2012/13 were as follows:



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10. GOVERNANCE COSTS

External auditInternal auditCouncil and AGM travelStaff costsSupport costsDepreciation

11. STAFF COSTS

Staff costs:SalariesSocial security costsPension costs – SAULOther staff costs

The average number of full-time equivalent permanent employees (all administrative staff) during the year was 44.10 (2012:40.12).

Remuneration of higher paid staff greater than £60,000 is:

£60,001– £70,000£70,001 – £80,000£110,001– £120,000£120,001– £130,000

Total employer pension contributions for the higher paid staff above were £42,661 compared to £32,359 in 2011/12.

No members of the Council received any remuneration from the Academy for the year ended 31 March 2013(2012:£Nil). Council members are reimbursed in respect of travel and other expenses necessarily incurred bythem in the furtherance of the Academy’s activities. During the year ended 31 March 2013 suchreimbursement to 26 Council members (2012: 26) for Council and AGM meetings amounted to £9,605 (2012: £8,752).

12. NET INCOMING/(OUTGOING) RESOURCES ARE AFTER CHARGING:

Auditors – remuneration– other services

Investment management feesOperating leases

– land and buildingsHire of equipment

2013£

19,32710,0009,605

100,77944,9861,097

185,794

2013£

1,589,004140,452158,04830,948

1,917,271

2013

2101

2013£

18,5001,450

16,453

565,00014,971

2012

£

18,165

24,613

8,752

79,201

39,803

1,956

172,490

2012

£

1,353,859

143,120

174,108

8,671

1,679,757

2012

2

0

1

0

2012

£

18,165

770

14,543

565,000

46,760



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13. TANGIBLE FIXED ASSETS – GROUP AND CHARITY

CostAt 1 April 2012 AdditionsDisposals

At 31 March 2013

DepreciationAt 1 April 2012Charge for the yearDisposals

At 31 March 2013

Net book valueAt 31 March 2013

At 31 March 2012

The fixed assets are used to promote the direct charitable activities of the Academy. .

14. INVESTMENTS – GROUP AND CHARITY

At 1 April 2012AdditionsDisposals Net gain/(loss) in market value

Bank balances

At 31 March 2013

Fixed interest and equities at cost

Comprising:CommoditiesBondsEquitiesOther

Single investments representing more than 5% of the Academy’s portfolio were: Charitrak UK Equity Fund 29.8%, BlackRock UK Corporate Bond 20.3%, BLK Europe Ex-UK ISF 16.6%, BLK N.American ISF 16.6%, BLK Pacific Rim ISF 8.2%and Black Rock Japan ISF 7.8%.

The Academy has invested £10 in the share capital of its wholly owned subsidiary.

Furniture andequipment

£

354,087

16,000

(104,496)

265,591

175,466

52,251

(104,496)

123,221

142,370

178,621

Overseas

£

33,840

-

5,326,786

47,453

5,408,079

Leased assets

£

74,463

70,326

(74,463)

70,326

51,266

8,187

(59,453)

-

70,326

23,197

2013£

8,651,6881,306,665 (281,779)

1,132,532

10,809,106150,684

10,959,790

8,312,592

Total 2013£

33,8402,211,5808,488,277

75,409

10,809,106

Total£

4,712,028

242,909

(178,959)

4,775,978

1,820,353

282,440

(163,949)

1,938,844

2,837,134

2,891,675

2012

£

8,321,998

780,382

(255,513)

(195,179)

8,651,688

176,047

8,827,735

7,222,380

Total 2012

£

66,965

1,884,927

6,640,303

59,493

8,651,688

Leaseholdimprovements

£

4,283,478

156,583

-

4,440,061

1,593,621

222,002

-

1,815,623

2,624,438

2,689,857

UK

£

-

2,211,580

3,161,491

27,956

5,401,027



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15. DEBTORS

DebtorsAmount due from subsidiaryPrepayment and accrued incomeRecoverable VAT

16. CREDITORS: Amounts falling due within one year

Other creditorsAmount due to subsidiaryGrants and awards (see below)AccrualsDeferred income

Lease obligation included in creditors

Grants and awards included within creditors

Grants and awards allocated, not yet paid comprise:

Mid-career fellowshipsEarly career fellowshipsInternational engagementExcellence kitemarkOther grants

Deferred income

At 1 April 2012Taken to income in the yearTaken to deferred income in the year

At 31 March 2013

Deferred income is split as below:Amount falling due within one year (see above)Amount falling due after one year

17. CREDITORS: Amounts falling due after more than one year

Lease obligation Deferred income

Total amount falling due after more than one year

Academy 2013£

44,970399,401225,767

5,085

675,223

Academy 2013£

243,562-

3,903,20936,191

346,987

4,529,949

12,383

2,432,3201,101,552

345,5618,776

15,000

3,903,209

587,663(229,162)160,877

519,378

346,987172,391

519,378

Academy 2013£

75,934172,391

248,325

Academy 2012

£

20,466

613,804

519,505

3,963

1,157,738

Academy 2012

£

71,140

234,143

1,112,705

255,648

244,425

1,918,061

8,332

1,001,730

95,975

15,000

-

-

1,112,705

234,884

(42,756)

395,535

587,663

244,425

343,238

587,663

Academy 2012

£

17,524

343,238

360,762

Group 2012

£

107,601

-

520,107

3,963

631,671

Group 2012

£

71,140

-

1,112,705

255,648

287,419

1,726,912

8,332

234,884

(42,756)

438,529

630,657

287,419

343,238

630,762

Group 2012

£

17,524

343,238

360,762

Group 2013£

113,949-

228,5285,085

347,562

Group 2013£

246,562-

3,903,20938,991

405,331

4,594,093

12,383

630,657(272,156)219,221

577,722

405,331172,391

577,722

Group 2013£

75,934172,391

248,325



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Unrestricted fundsGeneral funds

Designated fundsAcademy Development FundProperty Fund – ADFResearch FundPublicationsRepairs and maintenanceWebsite developmentExternal redecorationOrganisational developmentIT developmentBASIS

Total designated funds

Total unrestricted funds

Restricted fundsBIS grant Grants from previous years not taken upESRC – Policy CentreAHRC – Policy CentreIDEAS projectCHT property Other

Funds administeredLexicon of Greek Personal NamesLeverhulme Senior ResearchMedieval Latin Dictionary – PackardWolfson Research FellowshipOther funds administered

Restricted investment/income fundsElisabeth Barker incomeBrowning incomeCaton Thompson incomeNeil KerLeopold SchweichWebsterStentonAlbert ReckittStein ArnoldThank Offering to BritainS T LeeMarc FitchOther

Total restricted funds

Endowment fundsRose Mary CrawshayWebster

TOTAL FUNDS

Balance31 March

2013£

200,000

5,065,682306,67918,860

275,000210,397

-141,65552,73799,974

-

6,170,984

6,370,984

43,530--

10,0708,611

2,416,600-

2,478,811

101,1696,1221,189

73,836(8,422)

173,894

392,807166,707159,814412,361274,77381,960

486,8251,872,851

212,7591,071,684

254,322558,485932,796

6,878,144

9,530,849

27,957366,576

394,533

16,296,366

Incomingresources

£

1,663,402

269,270-

9,785290,512

--

8,567---

578,134

2,241,536

27,005,000332,28771,38040,00044,593

-79,804

27,573,064

7,657846,256192,120

-154,542

1,200,575

14,4345,1025,091

12,5089,328

11,75915,72558,9216,496

49,8917,544

10,87452,309

259,982

29,033,621

--

-

31,275,157

Resourcesexpended

£

(987,722)

(227,227)(29,228)(3,500)

(256,552)(157,382)

--

(2,334)(35,503)(85,974)

(797,700)

(1,785,422)

(27,041,132)(332,287)(71,380)(40,508)(8,504)

(228,094)(79,804)

(27,801,709)

(25,863)(840,134)(191,790)(25,000)

(109,951)

(1,192,738)

(10,704)(1,659)(4,298)(5,858)

(698)(22,232)(16,337)(23,674)(3,051)(7,150)

(510)(11,414)(40,343)

(147,928)

(29,142,375)

--

-

(30,927,797)

Transfers£

(731,344)

634,310168,585

-(71,551)144,000(10,000)

--

10,000(144,000)

731,344

-

-------

-

-----

-

-------------

-

-

--

-

-

Net realised/

unrealisedgains/losses

£

-

389,329---------

389,329

389,329

-------

-

-----

-

43,05817,56917,52943,06928,073

-52,048

202,87522,369

111,30225,97638,95796,816

699,641

699,641

3,07240,490

43,562

1,132,532

Balance1April2012

£

255,664

4,000,000167,32212,575

312,591223,77910,000

133,08855,071

125,477229,974

5,269,877

5,525,541

79,662--

10,578(27,478)

2,644,694-

2,707,456

119,375-

85998,836

(53,013)

166,057

346,019145,695141,492362,642238,07092,433

435,3891,634,729

186,945917,641221,312520,068824,014

6,066,449

8,939,962

24,885326,086

350,971

14,816,474

18. NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS



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18. NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS (CONTINUED)

DESIGNATED FUNDS

Designated funds have been set aside for thefollowing purposes.

Academy Development Fund: Anydonations received, unless otherwise specified,are added to this Fund established in 1991, ofwhich a significant proportion was donated byFellows themselves. This is the only fund whoseincome the Academy is free to devote towhatever object it deems fit. All the otherprivate funds must be directed to specific ends.Council decided at the outset, and hascontinued to allow the Fund to accumulate. Itsintention in creating it was to enable theAcademy to take new initiatives at its unfettereddiscretion. Proposals for the use of the Fund arereviewed annually.

Academy Development Fund – Property: This fund reflects the contribution that theAcademy Development Fund made towards theexpansion and refurbishment of the Academy.

Research Fund: To assist the revival of theAcademy’s Small Research Grants scheme.

Publications: This fund covers the estimateddirect costs of work in progress for one year, totake into account the uncertainties of theincome stream, and make no call on publicfunds for direct costs.

Repairs and Maintenance Fund: To coverunforeseen capital repairs relating to thebuilding which will be reviewed annually.

External Redecoration Fund: To set asidesufficient public funds to enable the Academyto comply with its obligation, under the leasewith the Crown Estate, to redecorate theexterior of its building every four years.

Web Development Fund: To cover the costof redesigning and updating the website, thisyear incorporated in the IT Development Fund.

Organisational Development Fund: Todevelop a new human resource strategy, andrelated policies and procedures; to updatecorporate working practices; and to deliver theorganisational staff development programme(three years). Reviewed annually.

IT Development Fund: To fund major ITdevelopment projects.

BASIS Transition Fund: Any additionalsupport to Academy sponsored institutes is nolonger provided through this designated fund.

RESTRICTED FUNDS

BIS Fund balance represents the net bookvalue of assets bought over the years.

In addition to its BIS grant, the Academyreceived grants from other organisations to fundjoint interest activities:

The Economic and Social ResearchCouncil (ESRC) contributing towards: theESRC/British Academy China Exchangeprogramme; the CO-REACH Social ScienceCall and the British Academy Policy Centre.

The Arts and Humanities ResearchCouncil (AHRC) contributing towards theCO-REACH Social Science Call and theBritish Academy Policy Centre.

European Commission funding theimplementation of the project for Integratingand Developing European Asian Studies(IDEAS).

CHT Property: The Academy received capitalgrants from BIS and the Wolfson Foundation tofund the expansion and refurbishment of theAcademy.

The Academy also has at its disposal privatefunds arising from gifts and legacies, fromcontributions made by the Academy’s Fellows,and from grants made by research foundations.These funds are applied for the followingrestricted purposes. Amounts included inrestricted investment funds are the amounts setaside and invested from these contributions togenerate income:

Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Funds aproject to provide researchers in all fields ofclassical studies with a comprehensive andauthoritative compilation of ancient Greekpersonal names.

Leverhulme Trust: Funds seven awards whichallow established scholars to undertake orcomplete programmes of sustained research forthe duration of one year and supports smallresearch grants in the humanities and socialsciences.

Medieval Latin Dictionary – Packard:Funds a project to compile a dictionaryrecording the usage of Latin during themedieval period in the British Isles and chartsthe medieval developments of the language.

Wolfson Research Professorship: Funds fourResearch Professorship awards over a three-yearperiod.



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Elisabeth Barker Fund: Supports studies inrecent European history, particularly the historyof central and eastern Europe.

Browning Fund: Funds original research, orits publication, in the field of British history inthe early modern period with particularreference to the seventeenth century.

Caton Thompson Fund: For the furtheranceof archaeological research, whether in the fieldor in publication, by scholars selected preferablybut not necessarily from the Fellows of theAcademy.

Neil Ker Fund: Supports the promotion of thestudy of Western medieval manuscripts, inparticular those of British interest.

Leopold Schweich Fund: Funds lectures, andtheir publication, on subjects relating to thearchaeology, art, history, languages and literatureof Ancient Civilisation with reference toBiblical Study.

Stenton Fund: Supports three undertakings:Syllogue of Coins of the British Isles, theSeldon Society, and the Pipe Roll Society.

Albert Reckitt Fund: Funds annual awards forthe exploration and excavation of ancient sitesand the preservation and exhibition of objectsdiscovered, and the publication of results.

Stein Arnold Fund: Funds research on theantiquities, historical geography, early history orarts in parts of Asia.

18. NET MOVEMENT IN FUNDS (CONTINUED)

Fixed assets£

-

306,678

2,530,456

-

2,837,134

Investments£

-

4,067,639

6,497,618

394,533

10,959,790

Net currentassets

£

200,000

1,796,666

751,101

-

2,747,767

Long-termliabilities

£

-

-

(248,325)

-

(248,325)

Total assets£

200,000

6,170,984

9,530,849

394,533

16,296,366

19. NET ASSET FUNDS

General

Designated

Restricted

Endowment

Thank Offering to Britain Fund: Funds theequivalent of a Senior Research Fellowship.

Marc Fitch Fund: Funds a fellowship allowingpostdoctoral scholars to have three years towork on a major programme of research andgain teaching experience.

S T Lee Fund: Funds a visiting fellowship on atopic related to the humanities or socialsciences.

Other funds administered: Four funds tosupport a few small awards for research,publication and education related to thepromotion of the humanities and socialsciences.

Other restricted funds: 24 funds to supportawards for, and lectures on, scholarly research inthe humanities and social sciences.

ENDOWMENT FUNDS

The endowment funds shown represent assetswhich must be permanently held by theAcademy. The purposes for which the incomegenerating from these funds is to be applied isshown below.

Rose Mary Crawshay: For historical orcritical work of sufficient value on any subjectconnected with English Literature.

Webster Fund: For entertaining andrepresentation overseas, and the betteradministration of the Academy.



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31 March 2011

Discount rate – pre-retirement 6.80% p.a.– post-retirement 4.70% p.a.

General* salary increases 3.75% p.a. until 31 March 2014, 4.50% p.a. thereafter

Retail Prices Index inflation (‘RPI’) 3.50% p.a.

Consumer Price Index inflation 2.80% p.a.(‘CPI’)

Pension increases in payment 2.80% p.a.(excess over GMP)

Mortality-base table SAPS normal (year of birth) tables with anage rating of +0.5 years for males and -0.4 years for females

Mortality-future improvements Future improvements in line with CMI 2010 projections with a long-term trend rate of 1.25% p.a.

*an additional allowance is made for promotional salary increases

20. PENSION SCHEME

The Academy participates in a centraliseddefined benefit scheme for all qualifiedemployees with the assets held in separateTrustee-administered funds. The Academy hasnow adopted FRS17 for accounting forpension costs. It is not possible to identify theAcademy’s share of the underlying assets andliabilities of SAUL. Therefore contributions areaccounted for as if SAUL were a definedcontribution scheme and pension costs arebased on the amounts actually paid (i.e. cashamounts) in accordance with paragraphs 8–12of FRS17.

SAUL is subject to triennial valuation byprofessionally qualified and independentactuaries. The last available valuation wascarried out as at 31 March 2011, using theprojected unit credit method in which theactuarial liability makes allowance for projectedearnings. The main assumptions used to assessthe technical provisions were:

The actuarial valuation applies to SAUL as awhole and does not identify surpluses ordeficits applicable to individual employers. As awhole, the market value of SAUL’s assets was£1,506m representing 95% of the liability forbenefits after allowing for expected futureincreases in salaries.

Based on the strength of the Employer covenantand the Trustee’s long-term investment strategy,the Trustee and Employer agreed to maintainEmployer and Member contribution at 13% ofsalaries and 6% of salaries respectively followingthe valuation. The above rates will be reviewedwhen the results of the next formal valuation (asat 31 March 2014) are known.

A comparison of SAUL’s assets and liabilitiescalculated using assumptions consistent withFRS17 reveals SAUL to be in deficit at the lastformal valuation date (31 March 2011). As partof this valuation, the Trustee and Employer haveagreed that no additional contributions will berequired to eliminate the current shortfall.

The more material changes (the introduction of a Career Average Revalued Earnings, or‘CARE’, benefit structure) to SAUL’s benefitstructure applied from 1 July 2012. As aconsequence, the cost of benefit accrual isexpected to fall as existing final salary membersare replaced by new members joining theCARE structure. This will allow an increasingproportion of the expected asset return to beused to eliminate the funding shortfall. Basedon conditions as at 31 March 2011, the shortfallis expected to be eliminated by 31 March 2021,which is 10 years from the valuation date.

The pension cost relating to this schemecharged to the Statement of Financial Activities(page 50) for the year was £158,048 (2012:£174,108).

21. LEASES AND OTHER COMMITMENTS

The Academy has an annual commitment of£565,000 (2012: £565,000) under operatingleases in respect of land and buildings, whichexpire in a period greater than five years.

The Academy has commitments totalling£163,858 (2012: £239,534) in respect of workin progress on publications.

The Academy has a finance lease commitmentof £88,317 in respect of photocopiers. Thelease expires in 2018.



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IncomeCore grant income

BIS grantGrants returned in yearOther grants

Grants received for funds administered by the charity

Donations

Trading income

Publications income

Investment income including bank interest

Subscriptions

Other income

Total income

Expenditure

Grants, awards and charitable activities

Staff costs

Depreciation

Other operating expenses

Total expenditure

Net income before gain/(loss) on investments

Net recognised gain/(loss)on investment

Result for the year

Group2013

£

27,533,660

1,200,575

83,872

1,637,722

291,687

339,329

95,168

93,144

31,275,157

27,128,465

1,917,271

282,441

1,599,620

30,927,797

347,360

1,132,532

1,479,892

£

27,001,000

213,234

202,745

Group

2012

£

27,416,979

656,940

61,512

909,274

230,114

314,336

84,313

109,787

29,783,255

26,297,126

1,679,757

299,968

1,626,123

29,902,974

(119,719)

(195,179)

(314,898)

£

27,005,000332,287196,373

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNTYEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013

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STATUTORY INFORMATION

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Bank:The Royal Bank of Scotland plcWestern Branch60 Conduit StreetLondon W1R 9FD

Solicitors:Macfarlanes10 Norwich StreetLondon EC4A 1BD

Investment Fund Manager:BlackRock Advisors (UK) Ltd40 Torphichen StreetEdinburgh EH3 8JB



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British Academy Annual Report 2012/13