I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Language and Communication Studies. I currently work in a project entitled Language, Engagement and Belonging investigating Ukrainians in rural communities in Finland. Previously, I was part of the Building Blocks project focusing on students in the fast-progressing track of Finnish integration training, their language learning and paths to employment. My doctoral thesis, completed in 2020, explored everyday experiences of highly proficient second language speakers of Finnish through the concepts of language ideology, identity and legitimacy. I also teach sociolinguistics on undergraduate courses in the Finnish language subject and have worked as a university teacher in applied linguistics (academic year 2019/2020).
My research is located at the intersection of language learning research, (critical) sociolinguistics and sociology. I am interested in language learning as a social process that involves learners’ diverse and changing identities and emotions as well as language ideological processes and social and societal power structures. My research has drawn mainly on discourse analytical and ethnographic perspectives.
