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- Professor of Swedish and Didactics, 2026, Malmö University
- Professor of Swedish as a Second Language, 2024 (Visiting Professor) and 2026, Linnaeus University
- Associate Professor of Swedish and Didactics, 2021, Malmö University
- PhD in Swedish and Didactics, 2019, Malmö University
Presently, I work as a Professor of Swedish as a Second Language at Linnaeus University.
My research primarily focuses on the school subject Swedish as a second language, vocationally oriented language teaching in Swedish for immigrants, linguistic dimensions in subject teaching, and literacy teaching in adult education and primary school. A substantial part of the research has focused on classroom work with literature. Taken together, my research has a strong basis in both Swedish as a Second Language and Swedish and Didactics.
I am a certified primary school teacher with several years experience as a language teacher in basic adult education. In higher education, my teaching mostly involve Swedish as a second language for teachers and supervision of students' theses. I also supervise PhD students in the post-graduate study programme SLDI (Languages and Literature in Education). Previously, I have been Subject Coordinator for Swedish as a second language in the Secondary Teaching Program and course leader for indepenent theses in Swedish and VAL. In 2025, I was appointed as a Distinguished University Teacher.
Selected research projects I am leading:
- DEPTH – Design of explicit phonics instruction: Teachers' multimodal strategies and students' engagement (Swedish Research Council, 2026–2029)
- Language Development Beyond the Classroom: A Collaborative Study of Adult Migrants in the Workplace (Knowledge Foundation, 2025–2030)
- Educational background, language learning strategies and language development among adult second-language learners of Swedish (Crafoord, 2024–2026).
- Conditions for reading and writing development? Collaboration between schools and libraries in socially disadvantaged areas. (National R&D Network for activities facing significant challenges, 2024–2025).
- Subject-specific text practices in the teaching of Swedish as a second language in primary school (Crafoord, 2022–2024)
- A language teaching perspective on langauge practicum and work-related language education for SFI students (practice-based research collaboration with a municipality financed by FINSAM, 2022–2023)
