Humanities Scholars Receive Funding for Publishing Monographs

19:09, May 25, 2020

Three projects will be supported by Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research

Humanities scholars of the Ural Federal University have received support from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research according to the results of the second stage of the project competition 2020 for the publication of scientific works in the humanities and social sciences.

Funding for publishing the monographs will be received for projects of three scientific groups from the Ural Institute of Humanities of UrFU. The projects concerned are: «Soviet Man: Pros and Cons / Homo soveticus: pro et contra» led by Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russia Yulia Rusina, «Valuable Content of Spoken Dialogue» led by Professor of the Department of Russian Language, General Linguistics and Verbal Communication Irina Shalina and «Naive Linguistics and Dialectal Linguistic Consciousness» run by Elena Bondarenko, Senior Lecturer, Department of Russian Language and Stylistics.

In total, in the sector of Humanities and Social Sciences, 336 projects were admitted to expert studies, of which 116 were recommended as eligible for financial support. The implementation of the projects will last until May 15, 2021.

"Congratulations to the heads of all three projects on winning the competition, as it will allow them to receive funding for scientific publications" says Alexander Germanenko, UrFU Vice-Rector for Science. — The fact of receiving grants confirms that scientists are leaders in their fields of study. This is a recognition of their scientific authority at the federal level."