Latest research awards In 'Funding and awards' Funding and awardsLatest research awardsWellcome ISSF Back to 'Research' European Research Council backs research into anti-slavery in Africa and sign languages DescriptionTwo researchers from the College of Arts and Law at the University of Birmingham have been awarded ERC Advanced Grants as part of €450 million (£400 million) funding for Europe's long-term frontier research.Date:31/03/2020 Funding success for Professor Lisa Bortolotti DescriptionProfessor Bortolotti will be co-investigator in a one-year project entitled, "Agency, Social Identity & Justice in Mental Health: A Collaboration with Young People, Clinicians & Academics"Date:06/03/2020 Dr Akira Murakami to launch a new project on research trends in second language acquisition DescriptionDr Murakami has received a Language Learning Early Career Research Grant for a new project on the quantitative examination of research trends in second language acquisition.Date:21/02/2020 Six new AHRC grant wins secure more than £1m funding DescriptionSix academics from across the College of Arts and Law have been awarded new AHRC funding totalling £1.1m.Date:17/02/2020 More than £1m funding to reconnect Birmingham with its Shakespeare heritage DescriptionA £1.7 million project to re-connect Birmingham's communities with the city's Shakespearean heritage launched today.Date:13/02/2020 LifeArc Philanthropic Funding awarded to Birmingham researchers DescriptionA LifeArc Philanthropic Fund project grant of £420,826 has been received by Dr Sovan Sarkar for translational research in rare diseases.Date:29/01/2020 Grant secured for collaborative project 'Tackling the UK's languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools' DescriptionDr Alice Corr and Dr Norma Schifano have been awarded £8,000 from the AHRC/OWRI inititiative Language Acts and Worldmaking for the project 'Tackling the UK's languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools'.Date:29/01/2020 New funding for research to support reading in a foreign language DescriptionDr Petar Milin and Professor Dagmar Divjak have been awarded the internal "High-risk, High-reward" grant for CAL for the project "Making the most of what meets the eye(s): Optimizing reading in a foreign language".Date:28/01/2020 ELAL project awarded AHRC-DFG grant DescriptionThe Department of English Language and Linguistics is delighted to announce that Dr Gerardo Ortega (ELAL) and Prof Pamela Perniss (University of Cologne) have successfully been awarded an AHRC-DFG grant for their projectDate:09/01/2020 Grant secured for research into urban terrorism in Europe DescriptionDr Katharina Karcher, Lecturer in German in the Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a €1.4m grant from the European Research Council.Date:17/09/2019 Displaying 1 to 10 of 201 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next