Academic interests
I am a researcher in Psycholinguistics, with a particular interest in attention and its role in language and communication. Specifically, I am interested in how individual differences in executive attention or reading ability influence the comprehension of figurative, nonliteral language, such as irony, during on-line processing. In my work I use eye-tracking as a main methodological tool, as well as behavioural tasks, surveys/questionnaires, and psychometric tests.
Currently, I am a postdoctoral research fellow on the project “Better attention, better communication? How ADHD and multilingualism influence children’s pragmatic development”, funded by the Research Council of Norway. The project explores how differences in executive attention profiles affect pragmatic development in monolingual and multilingual children with and without an Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis.
Courses taught
- LING1113 – Psykolingvistikk og sosiolingvistikk
Background
I completed my PhD in Psycholinguistics at the University of Nottingham (2019), where my doctoral research used eye-tracking and psychometric measures to investigate non-literal language comprehension in readers with and without dyslexia. Before this, I completed an MSc in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages at the University of Edinburgh, and a BA in Applied English Language Studies at the University of Reading.
During my PhD, I worked as a Teaching Affiliate and Psycholinguistics Lab Assistant at the University of Nottingham, teaching across psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, and literary linguistics, before joining the University of Oslo in 2022 as a postdoctoral research fellow. In 2024, I was awarded an Overseas Research Grant from the Research Council of Norway to lead a related study, as Guest Researcher and Principal Investigator, on attention and children's digital storybook comprehension at the University of Cyprus.