MSC researcher Ana Alacovska wins Sapere Aude grant!


12/02/2019

MSC researcher Ana Alacovska wins Sapere Aude grant!
Ana Alacovska, photo Independent Research Fund Denmark

Associate Professor Ana Alacovska has received a ‘Sapere Aude’ grant from Independent Research Fund Denmark.

 

One of 35 researchers to receive a Sapere Aude grant (of a total of 346 applicants), Ana Alacovska has received 6 million DKK to pursue her research project Operative fictions: how popular culture genres get-in-action in social life.

The project will explore the operative influence of popular culture genres on social life, examining how fiction accesses and merges with cognitive, symbolic and material aspects of professional working life in selected organisational domains. The project consists of three sub-projects which will study the role of:

 

  • crime fiction in police investigations
  • science fiction in the work of robotics and engineering
  • climate fiction in the organisation of radical climate change

Besides Ana Alacovska, the project research team will consist of two Postdocs.

 

The prestigious Sapere Aude research grants aim to provide ‘excellent younger researchers, i.e. researchers who have carried out top class research in their field, with the opportunity to develop and strengthen their research ideas’, thus targeting ‘top researchers who intend to gather a group of researchers and/or research students, to carry out a research project at a high, international level’ (read more on DFF’s website).

 

Read about the 2019 Sapere Aude grants in the DFF press release (in Danish). For more information about the project 'Operative Fictions: how popular culture genres get-in-action in social life', please contact Ana Alacovska, aa.msc@cbs.dk.

 

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