The research of the Department of Language and Communication Studies is located in the University of Jyväskylä's core fields of research of Language, Culture and Society, and is also closely linked to two other focus areas: Learning, teaching and interaction, and Information technology and people in the information society. In addition, the department will produce new knowledge with a societal impact in the profiling area of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, which focuses on multilingualism.
It also includes the Sign Language Centre, which is responsible for the highest level of sign language research and education in Finland, in accordance with a special national mandate granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
The research at the Department is divided into different areas of research focuses. Find out more about the different areas of specialisation on their pages. The cross-cutting theme of the department's research is participation in a multilingual, multicultural and technologically diverse world.
In the Faculty's Doctoral Programme of Humanities and Social Sciences one specialisation is Language Studies and Communication Studies. This specialisation trains international and interdisciplinary researchers capable of independent research that generates new, critical scientific knowledge and follows the principles of good scientific practice. In addition to carrying out scientific work, the programme prepares students for demanding specialist positions, the creation and maintenance of scientific networks and international scientific publishing.
In this specialisation you may conduct doctoral research in Applied Language Studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication, English Language, Finnish Language, Finnish Sign Language, German Language and Culture, Intercultural Communication, Journalism, Romance Philology, Russian Language and Culture, and Swedish Language, as well as on themes that cut across the disciplines.
The specialisation is organized in cooperation between the Department of Language and Communication Studies and the Centre for Applied Language Studies.
