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Organisation

The Department of Linguistics has approximately 70 employees and is organised in different sections.

Department organisation and subdivisions

The department is led by the Head of Department. Technical and administrative staff have an Head of Administration and the divisions Phonetics Laboratory, SUBIC, Sign Language and Språkstudion Language Learning Resource Centre have their own directors.

Division representatives act on behalf of the various research areas general linguistics (ASV), phonetics, computer linguistics (Dali), children's language development, sign language (TSP) and the multilingualism of the deaf and hard of hearing (DHF). A scientific leader oversees work with the sign language dictionary at the Section of Sign Language.

Contact

Contact details can be found on the contact page:

Contact

Department Board

The Department Board is the highest decision-making body at the department. The board handles issues such as course syllabuses, teaching arrangements, admission of doctoral students, budgets and requests from students. The Department Board is chaired by the Head of Department and includes elected representatives who are teachers/researchers, administrative staff and students.

Department Board, meeting dates and members (in Swedish)

The Department of Linguistics is run by the head Head of Department. In addition, there is management group that includes a deputy head of department, an administrative manager and a coordinating director of studies.

Head of Department

Professor

Mattias Heldner

prefekt@ling.su.se
08161988

Deputy Head of Department

Professor

Ingela Holmström

ingela.holmstrom@ling.su.se

Head of Administration

Elin Allzén

elin.allzen@su.se
08162331

Assistant Director of Studies, Sign Language

Assistant Director of Studies, docent

Pia Simper-Allan

pia@ling.su.se

The department’s administration team consists of around ten people with the following functions:

The Department of Linguistics conducts systematic work environment management. We want to make sure that all students and employees are treated equally.

Work environment and equal treatment

The Phonetics Laboratory, Språkstudion language Learning Resource Centre and SUBIC Stockholm Univeristy Brain Imaging Centre are all a part of the department. They are organised indepentently and have their own directors.

Phonetics laboratory

Språkstudion

Stockholm University Brain Imaging Centre (SUBIC)

Last updated: 2025-11-28

Source: Department of Linguistics