Research output per year
Research output per year
Prof, MAE
Accepting PhD Students
Research activity per year
Originally from Belgium, I completed my Undergraduate and Postgraduate training in Slavonic Philology at the KULeuven, Belgium. I also hold a Degree in Teaching Modern Foreign Languages from the same institution. After I had spent a year in Poland specializing in Polish Language and Culture (UJ Krakow, Poland), I returned to my Alma Mater to teach Russian at the Undergraduate level. Frustrated by the inadequacy of the grammatical descriptions I could offer my students, I embarked on a PhD in linguistics, funded by the Research Council (FWO Flanders), in 2000.
After obtaining my PhD in 2004, I spent one year at the UNC at Chapel Hill (USA, 2004-2005) as a BAEF Francqui Fellow and one year at the University of Stockholm (Sweden, 2005-2006) as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation (FWO Flanders).
I joined the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies at the University of Sheffield (UK) in September 2006 as a Lecturer in Slavonic Languages and Linguistics and was promoted to Chair in 2018. I have held a wide range of administrative and leadership roles. Notably, as Director of Russian & Polish I lead and revamped UG language programs in Russian and Polish and as Director of the Centre for Linguistic Research I lead on the establishment of the HumLab, an experimental facility for interdisciplinary research in Arts & Humanities.
In January 2019 I joined the University of Birmingham as Professorial Research Fellow and am working with the Out of our Minds team to understand language and make language learning a more natural and rewarding experience. In 2020 I was elected a member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Grafmiller, J. (Principal Investigator) & Divjak, D. (Co-Investigator)
1/05/25 → 30/04/27
Project: Research Councils
Milin, P. (Co-Investigator) & Divjak, D. (Principal Investigator)
UKRI Horizon Europe Underwriting Innovate UK
1/01/23 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
Divjak, D. (Principal Investigator) & Milin, P. (Co-Investigator)
1/01/19 → 31/12/23
Project: Research
Romain, L. (Creator), Milin, P. (Creator) & Divjak, D. (Creator), University of Birmingham, 7 Aug 2024
DOI: 10.25500/edata.bham.00001155
Dataset
Milin, P. (Creator), Sun, H. (Creator) & Divjak, D. (Creator), University of Birmingham, 27 Sept 2024
DOI: 10.25500/edata.bham.00001181
Dataset
Milin, P. (Creator), Divjak, D. (Creator), Medimorec, S. (Creator) & Borowski, M. (Creator), University of Birmingham, 14 Sept 2022
DOI: 10.25500/edata.bham.00000867
Dataset
Medimorec, S. (Creator), Milin, P. (Creator) & Divjak, D. (Creator), University of Birmingham, 2 Jul 2021
DOI: 10.25500/edata.bham.00000697
Dataset
Hanzlikova, D. (Creator), Milin, P. (Creator), Divjak, D. (Creator) & Romain, L. (Other), University of Birmingham, 7 Oct 2022
DOI: 10.25500/edata.bham.00000878
Dataset
Divjak, D. (Chair)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial board of a journal
Milin, P. (Recipient) & Divjak, D. (Recipient), 1 Mar 2020
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Divjak, D. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
3/09/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
11/08/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media