Members
Hilde Sollid – Professor
In my research I focus on language situations in Northern Norway, and my current research topics are language education policy for historical minorities (Sámis and Kvens/Norwegian Finns). Important key words are multilingualism, identity, language ideologies, place and citizenship.
In 2021-2025 I am the pricipal investigator of the project Multilingualism in Transitions (MultiTrans), funded by the Research Council of Norway.
https://uit.no/project/multitrans
Lukas Kosner – Doctoral Research Fellow
Ragni Vik Johnsen – Associate Professor
Sociolinguistics, multilingualism, youth language, family multilingualism, language and identity, language ideologies
Åse Mette Johansen – Associate Professor
Elisabeth Scheller – Researcher
Многоязычие, языковой сдвиг и сохранение языка, языковая ревитализация, языковая политика, социолингвистические исследования со специальным интересом к саамскому, особенно кильдинскому и другим саамским языкам, на которых традиционно говорят на северо-западе Российской Федерации; лексикография, словари и грамматики для языковых сообществ с ограниченным доступом к учебным пособиям; документация языка, языковые контакты, история языка; прикладная лингвистика, метод исследования действием: практическая ревитализация языка, создание и развитие аналоговых и цифровых учебных пособий, методики передачи и преподавания языков коренных малочисленных народов, письменность, нормирование, стандартизация.
Hanna-Máret Outakoski – Associate Professor
My research intrerest lie within the following four fields: 1) teaching and didactics of Sámi language, 2) questions that belong to sociology of language and are related to language use in school, pre-school and free time activities, 3) linguistics with special interest in syntactic functions in connection to the writing process, and 4) e-learning and virtual learning environments.
Rafael Lomeu Gomes – Postdoctoral Fellow
In my current project, "Linguistic repertoires in transitions: Youth and multilingualism in Northern Norway", I investigate the choices adolescents with transnational background make in relation to what languages to start, continue, or stop studying through the completion of their secondary education, as they transition into tertiary education or into other paths they may choose.
Prior to joining UiT, I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at MultiLing, University of Oslo (2020-2023), where I examined discourses in Norwegian media on speech styles associated with urban youth with immigrant background and on refugee and asylum-seeking children in Norway (Lomeu Gomes, in press; Lomeu Gomes, Lanza, and Athari, in press; Lomeu Gomes, Opsahl, and Røyneland, forthcoming; Lomeu Gomes and Svendsen 2023).
In my PhD (University of Oslo, 2019), I investigated the interplay between language practices and language ideologies of Brazilian-Norwegian families in Oslo, Norway (Lomeu Gomes, 2018; 2021; 2022a; 2022b. See also Lanza and Lomeu Gomes, 2020; Lomeu Gomes and Lanza, 2022).
As a member of the Global Virtual Forum (Pennsylvania State University, led by Prof. Sinfree Makoni) since 2018, I have contributed to recent efforts towards promoting epistemic justice and decolonising sociolinguistics as a scientific discipline (Makoni et al., 2022). I have served as co-editor of the book series "Global Forum on Southern Epistemologies" (Multilingual Matters).
