Inés Olza, research fellow within ICS's Public Discourse project, completes a research stay at the University of Luxembourg
This research stay had two objectives, including to conduct research in her field and to establish contact in order to identify collaborative possibilities between the two Institutions
Inés Olza, research fellow within the Institute for Culture and Society's (ICS) Public Discourse project of the University of Navarra, completed a research stay this past summer at the University of Luxembourg.
Her research stay was completed at the European Governance Research Program within the Faculty of Social Sciences and had two objectives in mind: to research in her field, focusing on figurative language, gestures and wording, and to establish contact for future collaboration with ICS. As Dr. Olza stated, "The University is keen on collaborating with European institutions and addressing European issues."
She continued by saying, "The program addresses issues of democratic, political, civil and legal interest in the framework of the EU and brings together experts from law, political science and philosophy. Our project, for its part, could provide discourse analysis and communication perspectives."
Inés Olza directly contacted the program director, Philippe Poirier, a researcher in political science, public administration and international relations, and, as she remarked, "The idea is that he visits ICS to see if his research group can collaborate with NewsScape."
Other research stays in Belgium and NorwayNewsScape is one of Public Discourse's research lines and is constituted by a digital collection of more than 200,000 hours of news programs from the United States and other countries, including RTVE's Channel 1 and 24 Hours. It is developed by the Red Hen Lab, a research consortium of multimodal communication distributed by various academic institutions; Cristóbal Pagán, also a Public Discourse researcher, is a part of this Lab.
"Research stays open up your perspective and allow you to see how other experts get things done, as well provide opportunities to establish contact with people who open up doors for you and for whom you open up doors as well," Dr. Olza acknowledged. While writing her doctoral thesis, Dr. Olza completed two research stays at the International Pragmatics Association, University of Antwerp (Belgium). In 2011, she was also a guest researcher at the University of Bergen (Norway).