EDDA is pleased to announce the eight grantees in connection with its Third Call for proposals in March 2011. The Third Call was tied to the development of the Center’s research programme. The purpose was to attract researchers into specific research projects within the three distinct, if interconnected, research areas, encompassing six themes. The following researchers and projects reveived grants in the Third Call:

  • Jón Gunnar Bernburg and Sigrún Ólafsdóttir: Social Inequality, Subjective Justice and Well-Being
  • Guðmundur Jónsson and Magnús S. Helgason: Narrating Crisis: Icelanders’ experiences of the economic crisis of 2008-2009
  • Gunnþórunn Guðmundsdóttir, Daisy Neijmann and Sigrún Sigurðardóttir: Memory and Forgetting: Ruptures, Gaps, and National Identity
  • Kristinn Schram: Borealism and Beyond
  • Gabriel Malenfant: The Independence Fetish: Separation and Reduction as Sources of Conflicts
  •  Tinna Grétarsdóttir: Crisis and Transitions of Creativity: (Trans)national Cultural Politics and Pragmatic Defense
  • Salvör Nordal: Risk and Responsibility. Corporations, Institutions and the Economic Crisis
  • Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir: A Short-Term Increase in Labour Supply and Health