Research interests
Migration and diaspora studies, border studies, cultural policy, cultural identity, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and pragmatics, media studies.
Externally funded research projects:
Since 1999, Ulrike Hanna Meinhof directed and co-ordinated several international research projects funded by the AHRC, the ESRC and the European Commission’s framework programmes.
EU 6th framework: coordinator
Searching for Neighbours: dynamics of mental and physical borders in Europe (SeFoNe)
SeFoNe explored the dynamics of socio-cultural and physical borders in the newly enlarged European Union, as experienced by people of culturally diverse backgrounds, with a view to strengthen peoples’ competence for cultural understanding and exchange.
http://www.sefone.soton.ac.uk/
AHRC Diaspora, Identity and Migration programme , large grant: principal applicant
Diaspora as social and cultural practice (TNMundi)
TNMundi studied transnational networks of (post-) migrant cultural practitioners, performers and musicians originating from North-Africa and Madagascar musicians across Europe, Africa and wider global spaces
https://southampton.likn.co/ml/research/projects/tnmundi.page
EU 5th framework: coordinator
Changing City Spaces: New Challenges to Cultural Policy in Europe
This project explored contemporary social and cultural developments in Europe, set in motion by and responding to new dynamics of global migration into and across Europe.
https://southampton.likn.co/ctns/research_projects/projects/city_spaces.html
EU 5th framework: coordinator
Changing Identities, Changing Nations,
Changing Stories In European Border Communities
The project built on a previous ESRC funded smaller research project and investigated three-generation families living in corresponding sets of geographically contiguous communities on the border between the EU before its Eastern expansion in 2004, and its Eastern and Southern neighbours.
http://www.borderidentities.soton.ac.uk/intro.html
Participation in the LINEE network (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), directing a project entitled ‘Multilingualism amongst minority populations: a case of transcultural capital or social exclusion?’
Principal partner of an ESRC project into discursive construction of identities on the former German-German and German-Polish border (ESRCR000 22 2899) with D. Galasinski. May 1999 - October 2000.
Coordinator of a research project 'The televisual construction of the 20th century at the eve of the millennium' (AHRB) 1999-2000.
Affiliate research group
Research project(s)
A study of transnational networks across Europe and Africa. How do (post-)migrant cultural practitioners, performers and musicians originating from North-Africa and Madagascar use multiple translocal and transnational networks across African, European and wider global spaces?
SeFoNe explores the dynamics of socio-cultural and physical borders in the newly enlarged European Union, as experienced by people of culturally diverse backgrounds, with a view to strengthen peoples’ competence for cultural understanding and exchange.
Professor Ulrike Hanna Meinhof
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