Ingvild Badhwar Valen-Sendstad

Academic interests 

• (Health) literacy as social practice, ethnographic methods, discourse analysis, narratives, institutional interaction, identities, gender, and language ideologies.

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 in Norwegian as a second language, English, and English as a second language and experience as a copywriter in English and Norwegian. 
• Double major 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