Three new grants for the linguistic research at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics

In the coming six months two new research projects and a network will be launched on the basis of grants to two Audiologopedics researchers and one researcher of Indo-European Studies:

A grant from the Danish Council for Independent Research to assoc. prof. Lise Randrup Jensen enables the founding of the research network ‘Supporting communicative participation of individuals with aphasia’ which gathers participants with interest in a new approach in rehabilitation, namely interlocutor training, that has shown promising results regarding the reduction of the consequences of aphasia for communicative participation. The network runs two years from September 2015 and with participants from University of Gothenburg (SE), Uppsala University (SE), University of Southern Denmark (DK), City University of London (UK), University of East Anglia (UK), Bournemouth University (UK), Southeastern Louisiana University (US). Further reading here.

Another grant from the Danish foundation TrygFonden is bestowed on assoc. prof. Anna Gellert’s project ‘Teaching and assessment of children with limited Danish vocabulary
– a study of the short- and long term effects of two approaches to vocabulary instruction and the predictive value of dynamic assessment of word learning’. Further reading here.

Finally a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation and the department permits assoc. prof. Thomas Olander to realize his planned dating and localization of the Indo-European languages’ original language under the project title ‘The Homeland: In the footprints of the early Indo-Europeans’. The project combines philological and archaeological methods and will be carried out by a PhD fellow, a postdoc fellow and grant receiver Thomas Olander. Further information at the project website.