My research interests are in sociolinguistics, conversation analysis, intercultural and cross-cultural communication, language policy and Swedish as a second language. Some ongoing research projects are listed below. For more information, see Research).

A current research project focuses on how humans interact with social robots, in particular robot-assisted learning: Interaction with social robots for education: Robot-assisted learning for students with diverse language backgrounds (VR, 2023-2025, PI: Ali Reza Majlesi, KI). The project is a collaboration with colleagues at Karolinska Institute (KI), KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Linköping and Stockholm universities.

Anotther ongoing research project concerns the development of death notices in Swedish newspapers over time. This project is cunducted in collaboration with Lena Rogström, The University of Gothenburg. We have documented how the texttype has developed from a short notice announcing somebody's death to a forum for the bereaved to give their version of the person in life. In a planned continuation we will investigate lingusitic and multimodal expressions at cemetaries in Sweden and Finland. 

I am also engaged in long-standing collaborative work with colleagues in RUMACCC (The Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication) at the University of Melbourne. In particular, we have investigated address and introductions in initial encounters with speakers of English as L1 and L2. Most recently, we have turned our focus to corporate address practices in large multinational companies, such as IKEA.