Our grants and research projects

International projects:

dr hab. Elżbieta Gajek – Evaluating and Upscaling Telecollaborative Teacher Education, Erasmus+ Key Action 3, 2018-2019
dr hab. Elżbieta Gajek – European Network for Combining Language Learning with Crowdsourcing Techniques, COST Action, 2017-2021
dr hab. Agnieszka Szarkowska, dr Wojciech Figiel i mgr Rafał Dutka – ILSA – Interlingual Live Subtitling, University of Vigo (Spain), with partners from Spain, Austria, Belgium and Poland, 2017-
dr hab. Łucja Biel – MUST – Multilingual Student Translation, Centre for English Corpus Linguistics, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2017-
dr hab. Przemysław Gębal – ENGaGE: Digital English and German task bank for 4th-8th class dyslexic learners, University of Miskolc (Hungary), with partners from Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland and the UK, 2017-2020
dr hab. Łucja Biel, dr Anna Jopek-Bosiacka, dr Agnieszka Biernacka – Training Action for Legal Practitioners: Linguistic Skills and Translation in EU Competition Law, DG for Competition, European Commission (action grant), 2016-2018
dr hab. Łucja Biel, dr Anna Jopek-Bosiacka – Understanding Justice, DG for Justice, European Commission (action grant), 2014-2016
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska – Empirical evaluation of audiovisual translation: A new integrated approach, University of Trieste Research Fund, 2014-2016
dr hab. Łucja Biel – Eurolect Observatory (Osservatorio sull’euroletto. Analisi interlinguistica e intralinguistica delle varietà giuridiche in contesto UE), Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma (Italy), 2013-2016
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska – Hybrid Broadcast Broadband for All, ICT Policy Support Programme, European Commission, 2013-2016
dr Elżbieta Gajek, dr Agnieszka Szarkowska – LLP ClipFlair Foreign Language Learning through Interactive Revoicing and Captioning of Clips, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (lifelong learning programme), 2011-2014
dr Łukasz Kumięga – Dispositive Turn? Forschende Verortungen des Dispositiv-Begriffs, Institute of Pedagogy of the University of Bielefeld, Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation, 2010-2013
prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Tryuk – European Masters in Conference Interpreting, grants awarded by the European Commission (2008-2009) and by the European Parliament (2010-2011, 2012-2013, 2014-2015)
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska – Digital Television for All, ICT Policy Support Programme, European Commission, 2008-2010

National projects led by our researchers:

dr hab. Janina Mołczanow (principal investigator) – Perceptual and acoustic correlates of rhythmic stress, National Science Centre grant (Opus 14 programme), 2018-2021
dr Karolina Broś (principal investigator) – Acoustic, perceptual and gestural correlates of (sub)phonemic distinctions: aperture in obstruents, National Science Centre grant (Sonata 13 programme), 2018-2020
dr hab. Michał Paradowski (principal investigator) – PEERLANG: How Peer Interaction Mediates Second and Third Language Acquisition (from a Social Network Perspective), National Science Centre grant (Sonata BIS 6 programme), 2017-2021
prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Gaszyńska-Magiera – National Programme for the Development of Humanities grant for publishing an English translation of the book entitled Recepcja przekładów literatury iberoamerykańskiej w Polsce w latach 1945-2005 z perspektywy komunikacji międzykulturowej, 2017
dr Katarzyna Stachowiak (principal investigator) – „Foreign language influence on native pronunciation in simultaneous interpreting”, National Science Centre grant (Preludium 10 programme), 2016-2018
dr hab. Łucja Biel (principal investigator) – The Eurolect: an EU variant of Polish and its impact on administrative Polish, National Science Centre grant (Sonata BIS 4 programme), 2015-2018
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska (principal investigator) – Respeaking – proces, kompetencje, jakość [Respeaking – process, competences, quality], National Science Centre grant (Opus 6 programme), 2014-2017
mgr Wojciech Figiel (principal investigator) – Warunki pracy tłumaczy z dysfunkcją wzroku [Working conditions of translators with visual impairments], National Science Centre grant (Preludium 5 programme), 2014-2017
dr hab. Piotr Twardzisz (principal investigator) – The semantics of the term ‘Eastern Europe’ and related terms in international media discourse, National Science Centre grant (Opus 6 programme), 2014-2016
prof. dr hab. Zygmunt Saloni (principal investigator) Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego on-line [An online dictionary of Polish grammar], National Science Centre grant (Opus 1 programme), 2011-2014
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska (principal investigator) Napisy dla niesłyszących w telewizji cyfrowej [Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing on digital TV], Iuventus Plus programme, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2011-2014
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska (principal investigator) Audiodeskrypcja do filmów zagranicznych [Audiodescription for foreign films], Iuventus Plus programme, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2010-2012
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska (principal investigator) Audiodeskrypcja z syntezą mowy [Audiodescription with speech synthesis], Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2010-2011

Other national projects:

dr Janina Mołczanow (investigator), The role of phonological features in phonotactics: A study in structure and learnability of consonant clusters in Slavic and Germanic languages, National Science Centre grant (Sonata BIS 5 programme), principal investigator: dr Paula Orzechowska, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, 2016-2019
dr Janina Mołczanow (investigator), Iterative and Bidirectional Stress Systems: Polish and Ukrainian, National Science Centre grant (Opus 9 programme), principal investigator: dr hab. Beata Łukaszewicz, University of Warsaw, 2016-2018
dr hab. Łucja Biel (investigator), Language of the multilingual European Union law: (de)culturisation and (de)hybridisation of the language of the law during the drafting and transposition of the European Union law, National Science Centre grant (Sonata 6 programme), principal investigator: dr A. Doczekalska, Kozminski University, 2014-2018
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska (investigator), Sztuka współczesna dla wszystkich [Contemporary art for everybody], Social Innovation programme, National Centre for Research and Development, 2013-2018
prof. dr hab. Anna Duszak (investigator) Komunikowanie publiczne w Polsce – ujęcie inter- i multidiscyplinarne [Public communication in Poland – an inter- and multidisciplinary approach], National Programme for the Development of Humanities, principal investigator: prof. M. Czyżewski, University of Lodz, Discourse Analysis Consortium, 2012-2017
dr Marta Kaźmierczak (investigator), The Senses in the Polish Culture. Representations of the Human Senses in Language, Literature, and Art from the Middle Ages to the Present, National Centre for Research and Development grant, project led by the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, principal investigator: Włodzimierz Bolecki, 2011-2012

Fellowships and research stays:

dr hab. Jarosław Pietrow – 1-year research stay at the University of Tokyo, project entitled Próba kontrastywnego opisu gramatykalizacji w systemie składniowym języka japońskiego i języka polskiego [An attempt at providing a contrastive description of grammaticalisation in Polish an Japanese syntax], Japanese Foundation, 2017-2018
dr Karolina Broś – Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, project entitled Perception of Stress shift by Speakers of Spanish – an ERP Study, University of Zurich, 2017-2018
prof. dr hab. Małgorzata Tryuk – research exchange, Rikkyo University, Tokyo (Japan), International Academic Research Exchange, 05-06.2017
Aleksandra Tomaszewska – diamond grant awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the project entitled Brukselizmy – mechanizmy powstawania, ewolucja, funkcje i asymilacja w polszczyźnie [Brusselisms – genesis, evolution, functions and assimilation in Polish], 2016-2019
dr Agnieszka Szarkowska –~~Marie Skłodowska Curie~~ Individual Fellowship, project entitled SURE – Exploring Subtitle Reading Process with Eyetracking Technology, Centre for Translation Studies, University College London, 2016-2018
dr Janina Mołczanow – Humboldt Foundation fellowship, Philipps-Universität Marburg, project entitled Prosodic processing in aphasic speakers, 2016
dr Michał Paradowski – teaching and research stay at Indiana University (USA), bilateral cooperation, 01-05.2016
Agnieszka Przybyła – diamond grant awarded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for the project entitled Wytyczne dla polskiego modelu tekstu łatwego do czytania (easy-to-read) [Guidelines for a Polish model of easy-to-read texts], 2014-2016
dr Anna Fornalczyk – research fellowship awarded by the Kosciuszko Foundation, University of Arizona, 2014-2015
dr Michał B. Paradowski – excellence scholarship for young researchers, awarded by Ministry of Science and Higher Education, 2013-2016
dr Janina Mołczanow – Humboldt Foundation return fellowship, Philipps-Universität Marburg, project entitled Lexical stress in Russian stem classes: evidence from acquired surface dyslexia, 2013-2014
dr Łukasz Kumięga – START scholarship for young researchers awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science, 2013
dr hab. Urszula Topczewska – DAAD scholarship, project entitled Prelokutionen, 2013
dr Janina Mołczanow – Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Philipps-Universität Marburg, project entitled Vowel Reduction in Germanic and Slavic, 2011-2012