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Prof.
Peter A. Kraus
WP 2 lead
Society – Mobility, Identity, and Social Cohesion
Task 2.2
Reconceptualising identity
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Founded in 1970, Universität Augsburg is a well-established research university spanning a great variety of disciplines. Its seven faculties offer 80 study undergraduate and graduate programmes to over 18,000 students.
Multi-disciplinary and inter-departmental research activities are brought together in three centres of excellence and several institutes, including the Institute of Social Sciences. Universität Augsburg faculty members are currently involved in some 100 research projects funded by the DFG, the German national research foundation and 30 European and international projects.
Task in the project
Universität Augsburg will be in charge of managing work package 2 - ‘Society’ and will lead research task 2.2 on ‘Reconceptualising identity’. In addition, partner UAU will serve as Interdisciplinarity Manager, with the special mission to assist the project coordination in facilitating the permanent exchange of concepts and approaches among partners.
Staff
  • Prof. Peter A. Kraus
  • Melanie Frank
Experience
The work package leader is an internationally recognised authority in the study of language and identity politics, with a long record of involvement in high-profile international research networks. His publication list evidences a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise in the fields of political linguistics and the political sociology of language. He has directed or co-directed several major projects for the Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft (DFG), Finland’s Academy of Sciences and the European Science Foundation (ESF). He was the head of the Finnish research team in the EUROSPHERE project under FP6 (2006–2011), where he also was the co-lead of two work packages. He is the chairman of the ESF-funded Research Networking Programme RECODE (‘Responding to Complex Diversity in Europe and Canada’, 2010–2014), which comprises 13 European countries and Canada. He has served as a member of research and academic teaching assessment boards in Europe and North America. Trained as a sociologist and political scientist, he has pursued a pronounced interdisciplinary orientation in his research on language, politics and society.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).