I work in the Strategies to strengthen European linguistic capital in a globalised world (MultiLX) research project, which explores multilingual AI use among young adults in Europe. I am also a final-year PhD candidate, examining questions of linguistic diversity in Finnish vocational education and training.
Previously, I have worked in various research and teaching positions in the Nordic countries and North America. I was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and worked in Finnish language programs at the universities of Toronto, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. In Jyväskylä, I have worked as a researcher on two team-ethnographic projects: Building Blocks, which explored work-related language learning, and Crossing Borders, which focused on art-based research methods, language, and belonging. I have also taught courses in Finnish as a second and foreign language for pre-service and in-service teachers in Jyväskylä.
My research interests include language and power across institutional contexts, with attention to linguistic and racial diversity, (de)colonization, and (in)equity.
In my doctoral dissertation, I examine language ideologies, raciolinguistic ideologies, and de facto language policy in vocational education and training in Finland. I analyze team-ethnographic data applying critical sociolinguistic research methods. My supervisors are Prof. Minna Suni and Prof. Sari Pietikäinen, and the research is part of the project Building Blocks: Developing Second Language Resources for Working Life (PI Prof. Suni).
