ECR Grant 2023 winners are…

Our Early Career Researcher emma Annual Conference Grant aims to support young researchers to get exposure and recognition for their work by enabling individuals to help present their work at an annual emma conference. Two grants of up to €1000 are available to allow the recipient to offset registration, travel, visa and accommodation expenses associated with attending the annual emma conference.

The grant recipients for #emmapamplona 2023 are Dámaso Mondéjar and Hanna Jemmer.

We congratulate Dámaso and Hanna and welcome them in a couple of weeks in Pamplona!

Dámaso Mondéjar is a research assistant and Ph.D. candidate at the Miguel Hernández University (UMH) of Elche. He holds a degree in Journalism from the same university and a Master’s degree in Digital and Data Journalism from the University of Nebrija in Madrid. He is currently part of the JoIn-DemoS project, an international comparison study on innovation in journalism. His research focuses on the study of the irruption of live streaming in the field of information, innovation and new narratives. In addition to his studies, he has gained experience at the Spanish television channel laSexta, where he has written data-driven articles, covered breaking news and collaborated in the editing of online content.

Hanna Jemmer is a junior research fellow at Tallinn University. She’s part of several research projects like the Cultural Data Analytics Lab, Public Value of Open Data and Mapping Media for Future Democracies. She mainly studies media economics, media innovation and media management but also media policy and regulations, platformisation. Her PhD thesis project focuses on how media organisations use data for innovation purposes. She has an MSc degree from University of Amsterdam in New Media & Digital Culture, an MA degree from University of Bristol in European Studies. She has worked on EU economic policies at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and in the Chancellery of the Estonian Parliament.