Academic interests
My research interests are related to (multilingual) language practices and ideologies, language variation and change, language in the workplace, discourse markers and phenomena associated with the grammar-pragmatics interface.
Background
- 2025-: Deputy leader of Centre for the Use of Norwegian as an Academic Language
- 2023: Professor of Scandinavian linguistics and Norwegian as a second language at the Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies (ILN).
- 2020-2024: PI of the NorPol project financed by RCN's FRIPRO scheme.
- 2020-2023: Associate professor II at NTNU as member of the GenVAC project (Grammatical Gender in Variation and Change, PI Terje Lohndal).
- 2017-2024: CoE MultiLing Core Group member, where I served as leader of theme 3: Multilingualism, ideologies and language policies between 2019 and 2020.
- 2015-2017: Head of Research at ILN.
- 2014-2022: Associate Professor of Norwegian as a second language (ILN).
- 2012-2014: Associate Professor II in Nynorsk skriftkultur (literacy), Volda University College.
- 2009-2014: Researcher and Editor on the lexicographic project Norsk Ordbok 2014.
- 2006-2009: PhD candidate affiliated to the national sociolinguistic research project UPUS (Linguistic development in urban environments) (RCN). My PhD thesis was awarded the Alliance Kunnskap Oslo’s prize for the best research contribution on an Oslo-related topic (2010).
- 2003-2006: Teacher in upper secondary school and adult education.
Other
- Elected board representative ILN's Department board (2021-2024), (2025-2028)
- Deputy board representative for Språkrådet (The Norwegian Language Council)(2022-2023; 2024-2027)
- Former Editor of the national SLA journal NOA - norsk som andrespråk ('Norwegian as a Second Language') (2017-2022)
- Former head of the Election Board responsible for the elections of the Dean and the representatives to the Faculty Board (2017-2023)