To further research collaboration between INU member universities, INU Council is pleased to announce that five Researcher Mobility Awards of up to £1,700 have been awarded to the following early career researchers to spend between 2-4 weeks at another INU member university with a research centre aligned with their research interests.

The awardees are announced below, alongside their host University and research area.

Awardee Sending University Host University Department / Area of Research
Dr Stephen Gerome James Madison University, USA Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Corpus based approaches to specialised translation in legal and financial contexts
Dr Jessica Eng Malmo University, Sweden Osnabruck University, Germany Education/Children’s rights – with a focus on participation rights, special education, gender and policy
Dr Cèlia Llurba Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Hiroshima University, Japan Pedagogy / Education Technology
Dr Lucas Bizzotto Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina Rovira i Virgili University, Spain Architecture – Estrangement in the bodily experience of architectural space,  / didactic scenes as a framework for critical thinking in design education. Dr. Genís Vinyals’s work on educational architecture and participatory practices involving children offers a complementary perspective.
Dr Lucas Erasmus University of the Free State, South Africa Hiroshima University, Japan Physics – To provide a new method for understanding photonic materials and to improve the strategy for optimising them for specific applications.

The awards are part of INU’s Researcher Mobility Program, which supports early career researchers (who have completed their PhD in the past 5 years) to develop initially bi-lateral research collaborations, with a long term view of developing these further into multilateral research collaborations between INU members.

Congratulations to the awardees!