Currently I work as Senior Lecturer of Multilingualism and the Internationalization of Teacher Education in the Department of Teacher Education as well as Adjunct Professor of Linguistic Landscape Studies in the Centre for Applied Language Studies. In my courses, I discuss multilingual pedagogies, translanguaging, linguistic landscapes and creativity. I also teach qualitative research methods and supervise MA and PhD theses.
Since 2019, my work has been related to the European Universities Initiative and especially FORTHEM Alliance in many ways. Being Chair of the Mission Board and serving as Scientific Manager, I had been coordinating the transnational, multidisciplinary multi-stakeholder expert network of FORTHEM Labs between 2019 and 2022. Currently I serve as Co-chair of the FORTHEM Labs and Co-creation Mission Board. Further, since 2019, I have been Alliance level Contact Person for FORTHEM Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab. I have been active in cross-alliance collaboration as well and co-chair the Forum of European Universities (FOREU) Subgroup Multilingualism since 2020.
I study and develop multilingual pedagogies and the internationalization of teacher education, with a special regard to language ideologies and the agency of learners and teachers. I apply a linguistic landscape approach to learning environments and develop ethnographic research methods. Learners, teachers, policy makers and education developers make use of my results.
