Congratulations to Prof. Ji Yinglin who won a prestigious research grant from the NSSFC. Her research project entitled “A comparative study of the linguistic encoding and mental representation of motion events in Chinese-, English-, and Spanish-speaking children” will be fully funded by the NSSFC for a three-year period (Project No. 15BYY063). Research data for this project will be collected in China, UK and Spain, respectively. Key project members include researchers from Shenzhen University, King’s College London and University College London.  

The NSSFC was founded in 1991, and managed by the National Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences of China. It is an intensely competitive grant scheme and researchers in the fields of humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply. Excellent projects are selected and funded in the spirit of fair play. The fund aims to stimulate innovative research in philosophy and social sciences, to cultivate high-level talents, and to promote research in new frontier disciplines or interdisciplinary comprehensive research. This year a total of 2,476 projects were funded with an average acceptance rate of 13.5%. Each project receives a total funding of 200, 000 Chinese yuan.