From left to right: Vice-President of the GAL, Prof. Dr Matthias Schultz, Dr Sarah Josefine Schaefer, and President of the GAL, Prof. Dr Karin Birkner at the award ceremony at the GAL-Tagung 2024 (Technische Universität Dresden).
Monday, 30 September 2024

Dr Sarah Josefine Schaefer (School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics) was awarded the GAL-Förderpreis 2024 (German Applied Linguistics Association early career award) for her EU-funded research project “Community, Identity and Diversity in German Youth Radio”, which aims to foster a more meaningful engagement of journalists with linguistic and ethnic diversity. The award includes a prize of €2000 (donated by the publishers De Gruyter Brill, Narr/Francke/Attempto and Peter Lang) to support young academics in their research work in applied linguistics. It is awarded biennially to an early career scholar, whose research project shows a particularly strong focus on research application. The prize money will be used by Dr Schaefer to expand the planned outreach activities of her project to improve media literacy among the target audience of youth media.