Vytautas Magnus University

VMU Rector

Ineta Dabašinskienė is the Rector of Vytautas Magnus University, Professor at the Department of Lithuanian Studies, Head of the Centre of Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research, expert for the European Commission’s 6th and 7th Framework Programmes, and a former expert in the High-Level Group on Multilingualism under the European Commissioner for Multilingualism. Prof. Dabašinskienė actively participates in national and international research and educational projects, including those of the European Commission. In many of these she has served as coordinator or partner and has repeatedly received international recognition for their quality, relevance, and dissemination. Her research interests include psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, grammar, multilingualism and language policy, spoken language, pragmatics, and conversation analysis.

Prof. Dabašinskienė has been on academic secondments at the universities of Poland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russia, Croatia, and the USA. She has received research funding from UNESCO’s “Funds-in-Trust” programme, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the Open Society Fund Lithuania, and has also been awarded Fulbright and Fulbright Alumni scholarships in New York (USA). Through exchange programmes and other academic agreements, she delivers lectures at universities across Europe, the USA, China, and Japan. She has also participated in committees of joint international programmes and chaired joint commission meetings for the defence of master’s theses.

Prof. Dabašinskienė is a member of various international associations and organisations and has served two terms as Vice President of the AABS. She has published monographs and scholarly articles in Lithuanian and international scientific journals, has edited several research studies published by international publishers, and serves as a member of the editorial boards of scientific journals.

Prof. Dabašinskienė has been working at Vytautas Magnus University since 1993. Starting as an assistant lecturer and doctoral student at the Department of Lithuanian Studies, she later advanced to Senior Assistant and Associate Professor. She was awarded a doctoral degree in 1999, initiated her habilitation process in 2009, and since the same year has held the position of Professor at the Department of Lithuanian Studies. Her former positions at VMU include Head of the Department of Regional Studies, Vice-Dean and Dean of the Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, and Vice-Rector for International Relations. Since 2010, Prof. Ineta Dabašinskienė has been a member of the VMU Senate and currently serves on the Strategy and Management Committee. She also served as the national coordinator of the international joint master’s degree programme MIREES (Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Research and Studies on Eastern Europe) and, since 2011, has chaired the Joint Doctoral Committee of Vytautas Magnus University, Klaipėda University, Šiauliai University, and the Institute of the Lithuanian Language.