Grants

2024a Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) Grant (UREP31-217-6-003) from Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation (QRDI) Council for the project titled ‘Exploring the etymology of names of toponyms in Qatar’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Collaboration with Shaikha Al-Hemaidi and Albandari Al-Nuaimi. Duration of grant: 2024-2026. $5,634 (completed)

2024b Academic Research Grant (ARG02-0429-240393) from Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation (QRDI) Council for the project titled بناء مؤشر دولة قطر للغة العربية: مقياسٌ كمٌّي وكيفيٌّ ‘ ‘Constructing the Qatar Arabic Language Index: A Quantitative and Qualitative Measure’. Team members: Dr. Hadeel Alkhateeb (Lead PI), Qatar University, Dr. Muntasir Al Hamad (PI), Qatar University, Dr. Adel El-Rous (PI), Qatar University, Dr. Yehia Mohammed (PI), Georgetown University in Qatar, Professor Irene Theodoropoulou (PI), Qatar University. Duration of grant: 2025-2028. $538,210 (ongoing)

2020a Qatar University High Impact Grant (QU-HIG-2020-1-163) for the project titled ‘Community sports in Qatar/Examining and bridging the gap between branding strategies and lived realities’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Collaboration with Dr. Mahfoud Amara, Sports Science Program, Qatar University, Dr. Lina Majed, Sports Science Program, Qatar University. QR 398,400 (completed)

2020b Qatar University Student Grant (QUST-2-CAS-2018-5) for the project titled ‘Constructing solidarity with Qatar online: A corpus linguistic approach’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Collaboration with Salam AlMossli. Duration of the Grant: June 2018-December 2018. QR 3,548 (completed)

2015 Seed funding from the Center for Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS–SF–14–7), College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University, for an interdisciplinary project titled ‘Branding Qatar as a sports tourism destination: A social semiotic analysis’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Collaboration with Dr. Julieta Alos, Department of English Literature & Linguistics (Translation). Duration of the Grant: January 2015-May 2015. QR 20,000 (completed)

2013a Junior Scientists Research Experience Program (JSREP) Grant (JSREP 4-009-6-003) from Qatar National Research Fund for the project titled ‘Between offline and online Qatar: Sociolinguistics of globalized social class, gender and culture’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Duration of the Grant: 2013-2016. $267,986 (completed)

2013b Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) Grant (UREP 13-094-5-023) from Qatar National Research Fund for the project titled ‘Developing an illustrated glossary of Qatar’s traditional architectural terminology’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Collaboration with Dr. Yasser Mahgoub, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Qatar University. Duration of the Grant: 2013-2014. $56,200 (completed)

2011 Start-Up Grant from Qatar University (QUSG-CAS-SPR-11/12-7) for a sociolinguistic project titled ‘Social class, language and globalization in contemporary Qatar’. Lead PI: Irene Theodoropoulou. Duration of the Grant: 2011-2012. $14,000 (completed)

2009 King’s College School of Humanities Small Grant. £500