Emilija Gagrcin is awarded DKNVS' prize for young researchers
The Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters' awards are given to young researchers in Norway who have documented outstanding talent, originality and effort, and who have achieved exceptionally good results within their field.
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Emilija Gagrčin from UiB and the University of Mannheim and Johanne Haugland from NTNU each receive a scientific prize of NOK 75,000 from the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS), in the categories of humanities and natural sciences, respectively. The prizes will be awarded in Erkebiskopsgården in Trondheim on March 15, 2025.
Emilija Gagrčin receives the prize in humanities for outstanding research in media studies. Gagrčin is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Mannheim and an associate professor II affiliated with the PREPARE research project at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at UiB. Despite her young age, she has established herself as a promising researcher in digital political communication and democratic processes.
Digital media have changed the way knowledge is produced and the way we access it. Digital communication can both strengthen and challenge the democratic status, and Gagrčin's research concerns this within political media use. Gagrčin is interested in how different factors affect democratic norms and competence, and thus the democratic resilience of a population.
Gagrčin was recently awarded a Marie Sklodowska Curie Postdoc Fellowship where she will compare individual democratic resilience in Norway and Germany, with UiB as the host institution. She is also one of the researchers behind a recently granted project from the Norwegian Media Authority on algorithmic learning in the family.
- This is a prestigious and highly deserved award for a skilled researcher, says professor and project leader Hallvard Moe. - Emilija is a valuable member of our research group, and I look forward to an even closer collaboration when she starts her MSCA fellowship with us.
Gagrčin has a number of publications in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals and has authored several research reports. She has experience with international collaboration, dissemination and externally funded projects, and was recently appointed as chair of the ECREA Young Scholars Network Board.
