College of Arts and Law research awards In 'Arts and Law' College of Arts and LawNewsEventsKey people in the College of Arts and Law Bodo Winter awarded Future Leaders Fellowship of over £1million DescriptionDr Winter is a Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Linguistics. His research will involve the construction and analysis of large multimodal corpora to explore ways of combating innumeracy, the numerical equivalent of illiteracyDate:16/10/2020 School of English, Drama and Creative Studies wins prestigious British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship DescriptionDr Jack Quin will be joining the Department of English Literature for 3 years this October to research 'Dual Forms: Modernist poetry and the poetics of sculpture (1880-1940).'Date:13/07/2020 From the Mastodon to Extinction Rebellion: Grant secured for research into the history of extinction DescriptionA senior Lecturer in Modern History in the Department of History, has been awarded a £167,000 grant from The British Academy to write Vanished, a history of extinction for Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House.Date:30/06/2020 EU Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Funding Awarded to Project on Sustainable Public Procurement DescriptionBirmingham is part of the SAPIENS project which has been awarded a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Innovative Training Network (ITN) grant by the European Research Agency.Date:01/06/2020 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 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 initiative Language Acts and Worldmaking for the project 'Tackling the UK's languages crisis: a role for linguistics in schools'.Date:29/01/2020 Displaying 1 to 10 of 131 Previous 1 2 3 4 5 … Next