Research projects and groups at the Department of Language and Communication Studies

This interdisciplinary research project examines the settlement of Ukrainians in rural areas, with a particular focus on issues of language, belonging, and engagement in this process.

This book historical project reconstructed six important but underexplored collections that existed between c. 1250 and c. 1540

LITHME’s aims are to prepare language researchers for what is coming, and to facilitate longer term dialogue between linguists and technology developers.

The MDE project examines how digital transformation affects meaningfulness and productivity. Together with Tampere University and partners, we create AI solutions that ease technostress and enable more focused, fulfilling digital work.

MSCEDU brings together expertise of researchers, outreach partner schools and students in co-creating a methodology for extending Extreme Citizen Science to the humanities and social sciences in schools.

Suomen Akatemian rahoittama hanke varhaisen kielenopetuksen uudistamisesta

This Academy Consortium explores the multifaceted ripple effects that artificial intelligence has on contemporary working life.

This research explores multilingual text work in the platform economy.

The aim of the study is to investigate primary school principals and municipal decision-makers' agency in language education policies, i.e. their views and experiences of language education at local and national level.

The book historical network Muses Moving North Network aims to explore the dissemination of Italian humanism from the points of view of the media transmitting humanist texts, the scripts and the conventions of the humanist book north of the Alps.

Combining linguistic anthropology and interaction analysis with (socio)legal expertise, the NegoICL project addresses the multiple tensions surrounding this emerging form of transnational criminal adjudication.

“Negotiating International Criminal Law” is a four-year study that examines the linguistic and discursive practices through which the International Criminal Court (ICC) operates.