Elizabeth Peterson

Elizabeth Peterson, PhD, holds the position of Associate Professor at the University of Jyväskylä and Title of Docent at the University of Helsinki. An immigrant to Finland, she conducts work and research in three languages, mostly on language ideologies, attitudes, and language contact. She has published widely on the role of English in Finland and the world, including a 2019 monograph and an upcoming volume on English in the Nordic Countries (both from Routledge). She is an editor and contributor to the 2022 volume Finnishness, Whiteness and Coloniality (Helsinki University Press). She was part of an EU Erasmus+ project dedicated to connecting Humanities graduates with employers, for which her main role has been facilitating communication and outreach.

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Laura Hekanaho

Laura Hekanaho, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki. She investigated attitudes towards generic and nonbinary 3rd person singular pronouns in her dissertation. Her main research interests include language and gender research, language attitudes, survey research, mixed methods research, statistical modelling, and qualitative analysis (discourse analysis and thematic analysis). She leads the work package on language attitudes.

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Marika Hall

Marika Hall, PhD, has worked as an instructor at the Pennsylvania State University and Juniata College (Pennsylvania, USA), and has experience working with language data in machine learning. Her recent publications include articles on Finnish language education policy, issues of language in Finnish politics, and language ideologies in legislative documents in the U.S. Hall is also the co-editor of a recently published edited volume on Discourse and Ideology. Hall leads the work package on language ideologies.

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Katariina Pyykkö

Katariina Pyykkö, MA, is a Doctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki. She has experience working as a Finnish and English teacher, primarily in integration training for adult immigrants in Finland. Currently, she is also involved in providing language awareness training for employers and vocational teachers. She is particularly interested in language ideologies, language attitudes, and multilingualism. She leads the work package on the language ideologies and language attitudes of migrants.
 

Kayleigh Karinen

Kayleigh Karinen, MA, is the Communications Specialist for the LAIF Project. She holds a Master’s degree in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities from the University of Helsinki. In her thesis, she explored the connection between language and well-being in the Xiberoa region of the Northern Basque Country. Her research interests include Finnish as a heritage language in North America, Basque sociolinguistics, and language ideologies. In LAIF, she is responsible for visibility, social media, and external communications.
 

Erja Kilpeläinen

Erja Kilpeläinen, MA, is a Project Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä. She is starting her PhD on language ideologies and immigrant teachers. Her main research interests are Finnish as a second language, multilingualism, language education policies, and social justice in education. She has been coordinating the Finnish Network for Language Education Policies (Kieliverkosto) for 8 years in the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä.