As we come towards the end of the first grant period of the PLURILINGMEDIA COST Action, several more grantees have been undertaking travel through our funding. This includes five Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSMs) during the month of September, taking our grantees to Bilbao, Dortmund, Warsaw, Tallinn and Poznan. Below, we detail the grantees and their research focus.
Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed: Working Group 1 Vice-Leader, based at Cardiff University
Enrique visited the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, under the supervision of WG2 Leader Miren Manias-Munoz and explored a ‘Wales-Basque Country collaboration’ between the two PLURILINGMEDIA leaders.
Mirela Alhasani: MC member for Albania, based at EPOKA University in Tirana
Mirela was hosted by MC member for Germany, Maggie Glass, at the Technische Universität Dortmund and on the topic ‘Building a Methodology to study the impact of Minority Languages in Online Media on the language policies of audience: Insights from Irish to Albanian’. Read more about her stay on her LinkedIn post.
Csilla Horvath: WG3 member, based at the University of Helsinki
Csilla visited the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, under the supervision of WG3 Leader, Nicole Dolowy-Rybinska on the topic of ‘The role of digitalisation and media practitioners in maintaining the ethnolinguistic vitality of minority languages without official status and literacy’. Read more about her stay on a LinkedIn post of the Institute for Slavic Studies.
Anna Tudela Isanta: WG1 member, based at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Anna visited Tallinn University to collaborate on a joint article related to ‘creating bridges between minority languages in Catalonia and Estonia’, alongside her host Guillem Castanar. The pair are specifically focusing on social media in the Catalan language.
Burcu Koç Ferraioli: WG member, based at Sakarya University.
Burcu visited the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan under the supervision of MC member for Poland, Karolina Rosiak. The two worked on the project ‘Media Practices of Migrants: Language Use, Identity, and Social Belonging among International Plurilinguals in Wales’. You can read more about her stay on her LinkedIn post.
PLURILINGMEDIA will again offer funding opportunities for short research stays in our second grant period, beginning from 1st November. We will distribute a full call for applications in due course.
