Dagmar Divjak#
| Membership Number: | 5400 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2020 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/dagmardivjak |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6825-8508 |
| Twitter: | @dagmardivjak |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - present Professorial Research Fellow in Cognitive Linguistics and Language Cognition, Departments of Modern Languages & Department of English & Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK
- 2006 - 2019 School of Languages & Cultures, University of Sheffield, UK
- Chair (2018-2019)
- Reader (2012-2017)
- Senior Lecturer (2011)
- Lecturer (2006-2010)
- Two career breaks for maternity leave (2008 - 6 months, 2011 - 9 months)
- 2005 - 2006 Postdoctoral research fellow, Research Foundation (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
- 2004 - 2005 Postdoctoral research fellow, BAEF Francqui Fellow (UNC-CH, USA)
- 2000 - 2004 Doctoral research fellow, Research Foundation (K.U.Leuven, Belgium)
- 1998 - 2000 Assisting Academic Staff, Dept. Oriental & Slavic Studies, K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Experimental linguistics
- Language learning
- Corpus linguistics
- Usage-based linguistics
- Morpho-syntax
- Cognitive linguistics
- Syntax
- Lexical semantics
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Research Leadership Award from The Leverhulme Trust (equivalent to an ERC starter/consolidator grant, "creates an opportunity for the development and demonstration of research leadership; that is, for the direction of a modest team or group, whose research may significantly change the established landscape in a particular field of inquiry")
- 2015 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship ("to support outstanding individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding and engagement with humanities and social sciences")
- 2014 - 2017 President of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association
- 2010 - 2014 Vice-president of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association
- 1999 Kardinaal Willebrands Award (K.U.Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
