LAIF project and research presentation at the Autumn 2026 Tutkimusmarkkinat / Research Fair of the Department of Language and Communication Studies, University of Jyväskylä. Elizabeth Peterson.
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Conference presentation at the ELN2026: Language Under Pressure conference in Helsinki, Finland. Laura Hekanaho: “Attitudes towards the Influence of English on Finnish: Findings from a Survey Study.”

Katariina Pyykkö participated in a text seminar at the Miten Suomi puhuu (MiSu) seminar in Tampere, Finland. Katariina Pyykkö and Marika Hall: “‘It’s Political for Them, but It’s Political for Me Too’: Agency in Migrant Professionals’ Reports of Workplace Language Policy.”

Article by Elizabeth Peterson, Katariina Pyykkö, and Johanna Komppa
Peterson, Elizabeth, Katariina Pyykkö & Johanna Komppa. 2026. “Kyllä, kyllä ja kyllä: suomea, englantia ja finglishiä” (“Yes, Yes and Yes: Finnish, English and Finglish”). Acatiimi 30(3): 18–22.

Invited lecture at the Finnish Union of Practical Nurses’ (SuPer) training event Personnel Representatives as Builders of Multicultural Work Communities: Language Skills in Working Life in Helsinki, Finland. Katariina Pyykkö: “Parhaat käytännöt monimuotoisen työyhteisön rakentamiseksi – yhdenvertaisuutta kielitietoisuudella” (“Best Practices for Building a Diverse Workplace Community: Advancing Equality through Language Awareness").

Review by Elizabeth Peterson
Peterson, Elizabeth. 2025. Review of The culture of the Finnish Roma, ed. by Airi Markkanen & Kai Åberg. Studia Fennica Ethnologica 18. Helsinki: Finnish Literature Society. 137 pp. Finnish Journal of Linguistics 38:265–272. https://doi.org/10.61197/fjl.164001

Opinion piece in Helsingin Sanomat Newspaper in Helsinki, Finland. Elizabeth Peterson, Katariina Pyykkö, Laura Hekanaho, Erja Kilpeläinen, and Marika Hall : "Suomen kielen muuttumista ei kannata pelätä" (There's no reason to be afraid of the Finnish language changing)
 

Article by Elizabeth Peterson, Katariina Pyykkö, Marika Hall, and Laura Hekanaho

Peterson, Elizabeth, Katariina Pyykkö, Marika Hall & Laura Hekanaho. 2025. “Englanti ja suomi osallisuuden kielinä: mitä se tarkoittaa eri ihmisille / English and Finnish as Languages of Participation: What It Means for Different People.” Kieli, koulutus ja yhteiskunta 16(7).

Conference presentation at The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) Annual Symposium in Joensuu, Finland. Erja Kilpeläinen: "Suomea toisena kielenä käyttävät opettajat perusopetuksessa: monikielisyyteen ja pedagogisiin käytänteisiin liittyvät kieli-ideologiat" (Teachers using Finnish as a second language in basic education: language ideologies related to multilingualism and pedagogical practices)

Conference presentation at The Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics (AFinLA) Annual Symposium in Joensuu, Finland. Katariina Pyykkö & Marika Hall: "Työpaikkojen kielipolitiikkaa maahanmuuttaneiden aikuisten raportoimana: toimijat, toiminta ja argumentaatio" (Language policies in workplaces as reported by immigrant adults: actors, practices, and argumentation)

Keynote speech "The Devitalization of English in the Nordic Countries" at AFinLA 2025 by Elizabeth Peterson. Click here to see the slides.

Conference presentation at Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity (AMLI) 2025 Conference in Liverpool, England. Katariina Pyykkö: "Responsibilities and language ideologies in migrant adults' accounts of workplace language policy in Finland"

Conference presentation at International Society for the Linguistics of English Conference (isLE8) in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Elizabeth Peterson and Marika Hall: "The mother of the country doesn’t even speak Finnish: The changing role of English and its relationship to the national languages of Finland"

​Språkbruk article by Elizabeth Peterson: "Tummar svenskspråkiga i Finland för mycket på sitt modersmål?" 

Katariina Pyykkö and Elizabeth Peterson hosted the Swearing in Scandinavia Research Group for SwiSca9 conference at the University of Helsinki.

Conference presentation at SwiSca9. Helsinki. Olli Kuparinen (Tampere University),
Elizabeth Peterson (University of Jyväskylä), Johanna Vaattovaara (Tampere University).  "Perceptual view on the social structures of the English borrowing “oh my god” in Finnish"

Conference presentation at Työelämän tutkimuspäivät 2024 (Working Life Research Days), Tampere. Katariina Pyykkö: "Korkeakoulutetut maahanmuuttaneet suomalaisilla työpaikoilla: toimivia kielikäytänteitä etsimässä" (Highly Educated Immigrants in Finnish Workplaces: Searching for Effective Language Practices)

Conference presentation at AFinLA's Annual Symposium. Katariina Pyykkö: "Tensions Between Skills, Needs and Daily Practices: Experiences of Academically Trained Migrants with Language Policy in Finnish Workplaces" 

Presentation at the Young Researchers' Evening, Helsinki. Katariina Pyykkö: "Ristiriitoja tarpeiden ja toiminnan välillä – Korkeakoulutettujen maahanmuuttaneiden aikuisten kokemuksia kielikäytänteistä suomalaisilla työpaikoilla"

Keynote speech by Elizabeth Peterson at the English as a Lingua Nordica (ELN) 2024 conference

Conference presentation at Finsse-11: Sustainability of English studies, University of Helsinki. Laura Hekanaho: "Attitudes towards English in Finland."

Conference presentation at Finsse-11: Sustainability in English studies, University of Helsinki. Katariina Pyykkö:  "Academically trained migrants navigating multilingual workplaces in Finland".

Workshop presentation at the Finnish Conference of Linguistics 2024, University of Jyväskylä. Katariina Pyykkö, Laura Hekanaho, Marika Hall & Elizabeth Peterson: "LAIF-hanke esittäytyy."

Poster presentation at the 2024 Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting, New York. Poster presented by Elizabeth Peterson.

Presentation at the "Kielitietoisuus sosiaali- ja terveysalalla: tietoa, käytäntöjä ja kysymyksiä työyhteisössä" seminar, Abå Akatemi. Katariina Pyykkö: "Monikieliset työyhteisöt puhututtavat – esimerkkejä yrityskoulutuksista ja kielitaidon kehittymisestä työyhteisössä" (Multilingual workplaces spark discussion – examples from corporate training and language skill development within the work community)

Presentation at the "Miten Suomi puhuu" Seminar, University of Oulu. Elizabeth Peterson and Katariina Pyykkö: "LAIF 2023-2026. Kieliasenteet ja -ideologiat."

Presentation at the "Miten Suomi puhuu" Seminar, University of Oulu. Katariina Pyykkö: "Englannin kielen rooli Suomeen muuttaneiden korkeakoulutettujen työllistymisessä, kotoutumisessa ja osallisuudessa – pilottikyselyn aineistoa" (The role of the English language in the employment, integration, and inclusion of highly educated immigrants in Finland – data from a pilot survey.

Presentation at the International Pragmatics Association Conference, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels). Elizabeth Peterson and Katariina Pyykkö: "Exploring conflicting ideologies."

Presentation at The 20th Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) conference. Elizabeth Peterson and Katariina Pyykkö: "Language Attitudes and Ideologies: a research project on language tensions in Finland."