Research projects / Department of British Studies

JOINT RESEARCH PROJECTS (2010-2015)

  • 2015-2016, "Gender, Migration and Urban Space in Transnational Literature and Visual Culture after 1945". Funding awarded by the University of Debrecen. Principal investigator: Dr. Györke Ágnes For more information, please visit: Urban Space Research Project
     
  • 2011-2013, "Is Women's Education at Risk?" TEMPUS-Grundtvig Project. Team leader: Dr. Nóra Séllei. For more information, please visit: Gender Studies Centre
  • 2011-2013, „Support of Research Units at the University of Debrecen”. Project leader:Dr. Tamás Bényei.
    TAMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0024
  • 2010-2012, "Space, Subjectivity, and Cultural Memory" Research Project, University of Debrecen. Project leader:Dr. Tamás Bényei.
    TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0007

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS (2010-2015)

Dr. Györke Ágnes

  • 1-29 January 2015
    Visiting Fellow
    University of Bristol, UK
    Campus Hungary Scholarship
  • June 2013 - September 2014, "Migration and Urban Life in Contemporary British and Postcolonial Fiction." Zoltán Magyary Postdoctoral Fellowship
    National Excellence Programme
  • October 2012 - June 2013, "Spaces of Belonging: the Embodied City in Postcolonial Women’s Writing". CEU-IAS Fellowship Central European University, Institute for Advanced Study (Collegium Budapest)

Dr. Kalmár György

  • Sept. 2014 - Aug. 2017
    Bolyai-ösztöndíj
  • Sept. 2018-Auf. 2021
    Bolyai-ösztöndíj: A fehér férfiasság kulturális konstrukciói a kétezres évek európai rendezői filmjében

Ureczky Eszter

  • June 2014, Campus Hungary Scholarship, University of Exeter, UK

 

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JOINT RESEARCH PROJECTS (1992-2009)

  • 2003–2004: Literary Encounters between the UK and Hungary: Contrasting Memories, Cultural Dialogues (The British Academy). Project leader: Dr. Bényei Tamás
  • 2002–2004: departmental project “Scottish and Hungarian National Identity” – joint project with the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (supported by the British Council and Eötvös József Grant Foundation, Hungary). Project leader: Dr. Bényei Tamás
  • 1998–2000: departmental research project ‘Postcolonial Identities’ (financed by the Research and Development Project, Hungary). Project leader: Dr. Szaffkó Péter
  • 1997-1998: departmental project ‘Alternative Approaches to English-Language Cultures in the Nineteenth Century’ (financed by the Research and Development Project, Hungary). Project leader: Dr. Séllei Nóra
  • 1996–1999: research project between the Department of British Studies, Kossuth University, Debrecen, and the Department of Drama, Royal Holloway College, University of London, supported by the British Council and the Hungarian Ministry of Education. Project leader: Dr. Szaffkó Péter
  • 1992–1994: participation in a TEMPUS Joint European project (University of Hull, Angers, Lodz, Brno, and Szeged) – Institute project

INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS (1991-2009)

Dr. Bényei Tamás

  • 2007 April: University of Edinburgh (ESSE grant)
  • 2003-5: Holder of a Széchenyi Professorship
  • 1997-2001: Holder of a Széchenyi Professorship
  • 1997: 12 weeks at Royal Holloway College, University of London (part of a joint research project financed by the British Council)
  • 1995: Zsigmond Móricz Scholarship (granted by the Hungarian Ministry of education)
  • 1991-92: 9 months at Trinity College, Oxford University (as a Soros scholar)

Dr. Borus György

  • 2002 (January): University of
    Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
  • 1998 (September-November): Royal Holloway
    College, Egham, England
  • 1993 May-August: University of Hull,
    England

Dr. Györke Ágnes

  • September 2005 - June 2006, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
    Doctoral Support Scholar, Department of Gender Studies
  • September 2002 - June 2003, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA,
    Department of English Studies, Visiting Scholar
  • September 1998 - January 1999, TEMPUS Scholarship
    The University of Hull, Hull, United Kingdom

Dr. Győri Zsolt

  • 2001 (February), library research grant in the library of the British Film Institute, London (supported by the British Council)
  • 1996 (February-June): University of Hull, UK, TEMPUS Scholarship

Dr. Kalmár György:

  • March 2009 - June 2009, visiting scholar at ITAS, the research institute of the University of Canterbury (UK) and the Universidad de Málaga (Spain) in Velez Malaga
  • 2003-2004, Deák Ferenc Scholarship
  • 1999-2000 (September-January), Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, visiting scholar
  • 1997-1998, Post-graduate researcher with an OSI/ FCO Chevening scholarship at the University of Oxford Lady Margaret Hall. Researched topic: post-structuralist critical theory Tutor: Dr. Rosalind Ballaster, Mansfield College.
  • 1994-1995 University of Central England, Birmingham, exchange student

Dr. Moise Gabriella:

  • 2006-2007 (autumn and winter quarters), Fulbright Scholarship, University of Chicago, IL (USA)
  • 2004-2005 (autumn semester), Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA), visiting scholar
  • 2001-2002 (one academic year), Scholarship of the Republic of Hungary
  • 2000-2001
  • (autumn semester), Erasmus scholarship, University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Oroszné Dr. Gula Gula:
  • 2005 and 2006: a one-month and six-week research scholarship, respectively, at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation
  • 2004-2005: Ferenc Deák Scholarship
  • 1999-2001: a thirteen-month scholarship of the Swiss government (through MÖB), and a two-month scholarship of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation: pursuing research at the Zurich James Joyce Foundation
  • 1994-95: nine-month TEMPUS scholarship to study Irish literature and culture at University College, Cork, Ireland

Dr. Rácz István:

  • 1997-2001, Széchenyi Professor’s Scholarship

Dr. Séllei Nóra:

  • 2007: a three-month Andrew W. Mellon grant at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh)
  • 2003–2006: OTKA (National Research Foundation) Grant for doing research in, and publishing a reader and a monograph on feminist literary theory
  • 2000 September–2001 June: a ten-month grant from the Curriculum Resource Center of Central European University, Budapest to develop and teach the course Women and Madness in Literature
  • 2001 September–2002 June: Békésy György Postdoctoral Grant (granted by the Hungarian Higher Education Support Programme)
  • 2000 August: a two-week library research grant in the British Library, London (supported by the British Council)
  • 2000 March: a one-week scholarship at the Curriculum Resource Centre of Central European University (CEU), Budapest: curriculum development (feminist philosophy). Course developed: Reading Woman: An Introduction to Gender Studies
  • 1998 June–2001 May : a three-year research grant (Bolyai Grant) from the Hungarian Academy;
  • 1997 September–December: a three-month research grant as part of the interdepartmental exchange between the Institute of English and American Studies (KLTE) and Royal Holloway and Bedford New College (University of London) funded by the Hungarian Ministry of Education and the British Council
  • 1997 July –1998 June: a one-year grant from the Research Support Scheme within the framework of Open Society Institute
  • 1992 May-June; September–December: TEMPUS JEP staff exchange (University of Hull, 11+15 weeks)
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