School academics elected to fellowships of the Learned Society of wales

The School has once again demonstrated the calibre of it staff in having six members elected to the inaugural round of fellowships of the Learned Society of Wales. This is in addition to Kenneth Dyson’s election as a Founding Fellow last year.

The New Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales are:

• Professor Jan Berendse
• Professor David Boucher
• Professor Alistair Cole
• Professor Hugh Compston
• Professor Alexis Nuselovici
• Professor Richard Wyn Jones

The election criteria required persons:
who have a demonstrable record of excellence and achievement in any of the academic disciplines or who, being members of the professions, the arts, industry, commerce or public service, have made a distinguished contribution to the world of learning;
and
who are resident in Wales, or who are persons of Welsh birth but are resident elsewhere, or who otherwise have a particular connection with Wales.

The Learned Society of Wales was formally launched on 25 May 2010. Its first President and Chair of Council is Sir John Cadogan CBE DSc FRSE FRSC PLSW FRS. The Society's establishment marks a very important development in the intellectual and cultural life of our nation. Wales is described as a small but clever country: the quality and breadth of our scholarship is evident in the list of Founding Fellows. But, until those Founding Fellows came together, in a wholly spontaneous and voluntary initiative, to establish the Society, Wales lacked an academy of learning of the kind that has long existed elsewhere in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Now, we have a learned society that, over time, can be expected to take its place among the great academies of London and Edinburgh, as well as those that flourish across Europe, in Northern America and beyond.