Background and experience
2024-2027: Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Humanities and Education (50%).
Professor in language studies. My main areas of research is multimodal, visual and digital communication, partly within educational context and partly more generally. I have been employed at UiA for about 20 years, and have experience from a number of courses at the Department of Nordic and Media Studies, especially the MA programme in social communication and L1 courses in teacher education programmes.
Areas of responsibility
Vice Dean/Pro-Dean of Research at the Faculty for Humanities and Education (2019–2023; 2024–).
Chairperson for the Nordic Association for SFL and Social Semiotics(2019– ). Deputy chair 2013–2019.
Co-editor of Visual Communication, SAGE (2017–2020). Editorial Board Member of Computers and Composition, Elsevier (2023– )
Participant in research group on Media and Communication Studies. Leader of research group in Educational Communication ("Utdanningstekst") 2015–2019.
Research
Projects
Participant in the reseach project ReMeD - Resilient Media for Democracy in the Digital Age (2023-2026), funded by Horizon Europe.
Participant / WP leader in the reseach project "CritLit - Critical Literacy in a digital and global textual world", (2020-2023), funded by the Research Council of Norway.
Co-leader of the reseach project "Social Media as Semiotic Technology" in collaboration with Center for Multimodal Communication at the University of Southern Denmark (2015–2018).
Leader of the research project "Evalueringstekst" (2017-2018), in the UiA research group on Educational Communication.
Participant in the reseach project "DigiGLU – Digital tekstkompetanse og bruk av læringsressurser i ny grunnskolelærerutdanning", funded by Uglandsfondet, 2013–2015.
Participant in UiA's strategically prioritezed research area "MULTIKUL– Multimodalitet og kulturendring", UiA, 2011–2015.
Participant in the research project Multimodality, Genre and Design, funded by RCN, 2007–2011.