Here you will find more information about areas in which we offer supervision expertise. Please note that the list is for guidance only; PhD projects within other areas are still considered. You are welcome to contact a potential supervisor if you are interested in applying to the PhD program
Literature
Russian literature and culture, translation theory, semiotics.
Gender, migration, Arctic themes, 20th century literature, sexuality studies.
Old English literature (pre-English, early modern English), contemporary English literature, English film and television, gender, critical kinship studies, speculative fiction, cultural studies.
Reception studies (especially in the form of fan fiction), French literature from 1950 onwards, narratological studies, possibly also literary education in French.
Crime, horror, popular literature, gender.
Speculative fiction, northern/Arctic fiction, fan studies, travel literature, ecocriticism, paratext.
19th century literature and culture, disability and literature, medicine and literature, medical humanities, medieval literature, academic writing.
Educational work
Language teaching or pedagogical work (focusing on oral language proficiency, Spanish or Swedish as a basic language or foreign language).
Linguistics with a focus on SLA and the acquisition of oral language skills.
Multilingualism, Swedish as a second language, literacy, language development, language teaching, minority languages, etc.
Language teaching, especially second/third languages, grammar teaching, writing, multilingualism; linguistics: language description (for teaching purposes); German and Swedish.
Teaching profession and Teacher professionalism, Teacher agency, Critical pedagogy, The multilingual classroom, Interdisciplinary areas in teacher competence (gender, inclusive education, sustainability education), policy and curriculum studies, (critical) discourse analysis, classroom-based research, higher education and school levels
Sami studies
Folklore and cultural expressions, digital expressions, varrativity and storytelling, critical studies on Sámi research.
Sami political mobilisation and organisation, Swedish Sami politics, Sami history, educational science.
Sami culture, ethnology, folklore.
Language teaching and learning
Language teaching or pedagogical work (focusing on oral language proficiency, Spanish or Swedish as a basic language or foreign language).
Linguistics with a focus on SLA and the acquisition of oral language skills.
Special education, literacy.
19th century literature and culture, disability and literature, medicine and literature, medical humanities, medieval literature, academic writing.
Intervention studies focusing on didactics in reading, writing, vocabulary, reading difficulties in relation to learning, writing, school results, didactic issues in relation to learning difficulties, experimental study design and analysis of quantitative data.
Teaching writing.
Multilingual classroom, Interdisciplinary areas in teacher competence (gender, inclusive education, sustainability education), policy and curriculum studies, (critical) discourse analysis, classroom-based research, higher education and school levels.
Language teaching, especially second/third languages, grammar teaching, writing, multilingualism; linguistics: language description (for teaching purposes); German and Swedish.
Linguistics
Place names, proverbs, intangible (linguistic) cultural heritage in general, language policy and politics, sociolinguistics, language and place-making, linguistic ethnography.
Language teaching or pedagogical work (focusing on oral language proficiency, Spanish or Swedish as a basic language or foreign language).
Linguistics with a focus on SLA and the acquisition of oral language skills.
Cognitive linguistics/semantics, interview studies, sociolinguistics, ethnographic language studies, conversation analysis.
Grammar, text analysis, language history.
Cognitive Linguistics, metaphor, conceptual metaphor, lexical metaphor, language and embodied/ecological/spatial cognition, Corpus Linguistics, Prepositions, Applying Cognitive Linguistics to second language teaching and learning
Multilingualism, Swedish as a second language, literacy, language development, language teaching, minority languages, etc.
General Linguistics, Morphology, Semantics, Lexicon, Pragmatics, Translation studies, Contrastive linguistics, Corpus-based studies.
Language and gender, gender studies, discourse analysis (different approaches), conversation analysis, humor.
English historical semantics (especially Early Modern English & Late Modern English), cognitive semantics (especially metaphors and word meanings), emotions (especially the semantics of emotion words and metaphors for emotions).
Discourse analysis, SF theory, translation studies.
Language teaching, especially second/third languages, grammar teaching, writing, multilingualism; linguistics: language description (for teaching purposes); German and Swedish.
