Research Projects

URPP Funded Projects

PhD Project(s)

Candidate

Landscape and language – Exploring approaches to extracting landscape perception

Bär, Manuel,

Dr.

Postdoctoral Project(s)

Researcher

Cities in a City. Mental Mapping and Naming Practices in an Urban Environment

Racca, Sara,

Dr.

Third-Party Funded Projects

	Project	Principal Investigator	Funding Source	Period
1	Language as a Window into Conceptualisations of Landscape: A Cross-Linguistic Perspective	Ross Purves	Cogito Foundation	01.03.2022–28.02.2023
2	Geovisual Analysis of VGI for Understanding People's Behaviour in Relation to Multi-faceted Context (EVA-VGI 2)	Ross Purves	SNSF link	01.10.2020–30.09.2023
3	TopSG- Local Toponyms of The Canton of St. Gallen	Ludwig Rübekeil, Simone Maria Berchtold Schiestl, Ross Purves	SNSF link	01.02.2019–31.01.2023
4	TopSG- Local Toponyms of The Canton of St. Gallen (link to project page)	Elvira Glaser, Ross Purves	SNSF link	01.02.2016–31.01.2019
5	TopZH- Die Siedlungsnamen des Kantons Zürich (link to project description)	Elvira Glaser	SNSF link	01.02.2016–31.01.2019
6	PlaceGen- Place-based Map Generalization	Robert Weibel, Ross Purves	SNSF link	01.06.2014–31.05.2018
7	Schaffhauser Namenbuch: Die Orts- und Flurnamen des Kantons Schaffhausen	Elvira Glaser	SNSF link	01.08.2013–31.01.2016
8	St. Galler Namenbuch: Die Siedlungsnamen des Kantons St. Gallen	Elvira Glaser	SNSF link	01.08.2012–31.08.2016
9	How Language Shapes Our Sense of Place	Ross Purves, Flurina Wartmann	Cogito Foundation	2016