IMS members are awarded funding for research excellence
Two members of the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), Dagmar Brunow and Per Israelson, have been awarded funding for research excellence in 2026.
Professor Dagmar Brunow and Lecturer Per Israelson from the Linnaeus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) have successfully secured funding for research excellence 2026 from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Linnaeus University.
The funding for research excellence aims to promote research within the faculty and to provide greater opportunities for its leading researchers. It is awarded for the applicant’s contribution to high-quality research that interacts with the creation of complete academic environments and dynamic knowledge environments.
- It is an honor for us to receive this grant from the faculty, says Dagmar Brunow. This gives us the opportunity to continue and deepen our research collaboration at all levels.
Dagmar Brunow
Brunow is professor of film studies and part of the IMS steering group. She has been working extensively on audiovisual heritage, cultural memory, and film archives, having been the PI for two externally funded projects, financed by the Swedish Research Council.
Per Israelson
Israelson is a senior lecturer at the Department of Media and Journalism. His work centers on media ecology and participatory culture. He has been writing extensively on comics, genres of the fantastic and children’s literature, both as researcher and critic, and is currently part of a research project on generative AI and cultural memory funded by the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg foundation.
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