Research team

Erica Sandlund (project leader), professor of English linguistics. Her research centers on social interaction, particularly institutional talk such as higher education seminars, multilingual classrooms, organizational meetings, performance appraisal interviews, second language speaking tests, and news interviews. Through the ethnomethodological lens of Conversation Analysis (CA), she is interested in how social institutions shape, restrict, and promote particular interactional conduct, and how social phenomena such as affect or norms are socially organized in talk and action. 

Birgitta Ljung Egeland, senior lecturer in Swedish language. Her interest of research lie in narrative research, language didactics and applied linguistics, in particular within multilingualism, along with children and young people’s health. Students' perspectives and interviews with children and young people are central in her research.

Siliva Kunitz, senior lecturer of English linguistics. In her research she uses Conversation Analysis (CA) to study for example social interaction and task-engagement in L2 classrooms and social inclusion on language cafes for newcomers to Sweden.

Christina Olin-Scheller, professor of Applied Pedagogy and professor of Literature in Education. She pursues interdisciplinary research relating to the conditions for learning, development and identity creation in formal and informal educational settings. Her research centers on issues related to children and young people’s reading and writing opportunities in the new media landscape. Developing reading skills is also an important research area.