Ingvild Badhwar Valen-Sendstad

Academic interests 

• Ethnographic methods, critical social theory, and discourse analysis
• Gender, language ideologies, and language policy
• Off/online communication between Norwegian social welfare institutions and multilingual women 
• Health literacy in communication between women Norwegian second language speakers and welfare workers

Background

• Research assistant at IKOS, University of Oslo, 2018
• Affiliate Scholar at East-West Center, Honolulu, 2017
• MA in Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, 2017
  • Internship at the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA)
• Teaching experience with Norwegian as a second language, English, and English as a second language and experience as a copywriter in English and Norwegian. 
• BA in Comparative Literature and Hindi, University of Oslo, 2014
  • Exchange program to The Nordic Center in Varanasi, India: Hindi course
  • Erasmus Exchange to Humbold University, Germany: German course 
  • Article based on BA thesis later published in Asia in Focus