CRF European Visiting Research Fellowships 2002

European Visiting Fellowships 2002

Seven fellowships were awarded

European Visiting Research Fellowships 2002

The Foundation awarded seven European Visiting Research Fellowships for research visits as indicated below.

For travel from Scotland to European countries

Dr Andrew Mackillop, School of History & History of Art, University of Aberdeen, who will visit the General State Archive, in The Hague, The Netherlands, to carry out research to identify the Scots serving in the United Dutch East India Company between 1680 and 1730. The overall aim of Dr Mackillop's work is to clarify the role of Scots in European imperial and colonial developments during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Dr David M. Hopkin, Department of Economic & Social History, University of Glasgow, who will visit Paris and other centres in France carrying out research on oral culture and community in 19th-century Europe. In particular he will be focusing on the social function of the various types of 'oral literature' - tales, songs, riddles and proverbs - collected by folklorists.

Dr David J. Howard, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, who will spend time at the University of Toulouse, investigating the communities in Toulouse which are of Latin-American origin. He will be studying these in the wider context of French society, looking in particular at both the construction of Latin American identities and contemporary social change.

For travel from European countries to Scotland

Dr Paul A. Vogt , Institute for Knowledge & Agent Technology, Maastricht, The Netherlands, who will visit the Language Evolution & Computation Unit within the Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh. He will be investigating how a simple compositional language may evolve with both syntax and semantics. The work will involve the use of simulations of robots that interact with their virtual world.

Dr Jean-Louis Dessalles, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, who will also visit the Language Evolution & Computational Research Unit of the Department of Theoretical & Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh to carry out computational and mathematical modelling studies on the evolution of language. The aim of this work is to identify the several critical abilities that were required for the evolution of human speech.

Professor Irina Belobrovtseva, Tallinn University of Educational Studies, Estonia, who will spend time working in the Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Glasgow where she will be able to access books and periodicals containing previously uncollected works of and about the émigré Russian writer Leonid Fedorovich Zurov (1902-71). This work will support her research into his life and work.

Dr Dmitry Fedosov, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, who will spend time at the Centre for Russian Studies, University of Aberdeen carrying out research towards the eventual publication - in both Russian and the original English - of a full version of the diary of General Patrick Gordon of Aucleuchries (1635-99), Principal advisor to Tsar Peter the Great and one of the most influential Scots abroad.