Gunhild Kvåle

2019-2023: Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Humanities and Education (50%).

2020-2023: Participant (50%) in an NRC-funded project (FINNUT) on critical literacy in schools: "Critical Literacy in a digital and global textual world" (CritLit) 

My own research in particular concerns visual, multimodal and digital communication; partly within and partly ouside of educational contexts.

Participant in research project "CritLit - Critical Literacy in a digital and global textual world", led by the University of Southern Noway. Funded by NFR, Sept 2020-2023. 

Chairman of the Nordic association for systemic-functional lingustics and social semiotics

Co-editor of the journal Visual Communication, SAGE.

Member of the research group "Texts and Education" and Media and Communication Studies at the Faculty of Humanities and Education, UiA. Leader of Texts and Education from 2015-2019.

Leader of the research project "Evaluational texts" (2017-2018).

Research project on "Social Media as Semiotic Technology" in cooperation with Center for Multimodal Communication at University of Southern Denmark. (2015–2018).

Participant in the research project "DigiGLU - Digital literacy and the use of digital resources in Norwegian Teacher Education", funded by the Ugland fund, 2013-15.

Participant in the UiA strategic research project "MULTIKUL – Multimodality and cultural change", funded by UiA, 2011-2015.

Participant in the UiA research project "Multimodality, genre and design", funded by NFR, 2007-2011.

Academic profile (CRISTIN)