Photo: Marcin Debski Ingrid Piller investigates intercultural communication, language acquisition, and multilingualism in the context of migration and globalization.
Third Anneliese Maier Research Award for Universität Hamburg: the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded an Anneliese Maier Research Award worth 250,000 euros to Ingrid Piller. The sociolinguist researches at Australia's Macquarie University in the field of intercultural communication and will spend several periods of research at Universität Hamburg. She was nominated by Ingrid Gogolin with the assistance of Drorit Lengyel from the Faculty of Education at Universität Hamburg. Ingrid Piller is professor of applied linguistics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, and researches in the field of intercultural communication, language acquisition, and multilingualism within the context of migration and globalization. Piller's research focuses on the social consequences of language diversity: What opportunities does multilingualism offer for social participation? And how do difficulties experienced by migrants in the official national language affect cultural, economic, and political participation? During the course of her career, Piller has researched in Germany, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States of America. Dieter Lenzen, President of Universität Hamburg said: "I congratulate Ingrid Piller and thank Ingrid Gogolin and Drorit Lengyel! As an educational scientist, it is a particular pleasure that our area of potential Literacy in Diversity Settings in the Faculty of Education can be strengthened with a scholar so distinguished as Professor Piller." Research project on language education in multilingual societies
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