Major Research Fellowships for UofG academics

Two leading University of Glasgow researchers have been awarded prestigious fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust. Professor Chris Philo, of the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, and Professor Jim Tomlinson, of the School of Social and Political Sciences, will take up Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowships from October 2021. The Fellowships aim to support well-established, distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research over the course of two to three years. The grant covers the cost of a replacement salary of the period of the research. Professor Philo's three-year project will focus on the anti-fascist geographical imagination, and investigate whether to think anti-fascistically is necessarily also to think geographically. Through close re-readings of texts by Theodor Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Edith Stein, Professor Philo proposes to trace the sources of a geographical anti-fascism. He said: "At a time when fascistic and authoritarian tendencies once more stalk our globe, tied to alarmingly intolerant populisms of various kinds, there is warrant for returning to radical currents of anti-fascist philosophy, social theory, historical and cultural inquiry from the last century, as fashioned in the shadows of 'the Hitler state' and its manifold abuses in and beyond mid-century Germany.