Eveliina Tolvanen
PhD, Senior Researcher
Text research; institutional communication; Systemic-Functional Linguistics; spoken interaction; Interactional Linguistics; linguistic landscapes; institutional multilingualism; contrastive research.
2024-2026: Senior Researcher, University of Turku & Project researcher in Social Sciences, Åbo Akademi University.
2023-2024: Post-doctoral researcher, Swedish and other languages in the linguistic landscape of specialized healthcare (Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland). University of Turku.
2019-2022: Post-doctoral researcher, EGS: Emergent Clausal Syntax for Conversation - Swedish in a Cross-Language Comparison (2018-2022, Academy of Finland). University of Helsinki.
2017-2019: Post-doctoral researcher (Svenska Kulturfonden). Affiliated with the research programme IVIP: Interaktion och variation i pluricentriska språk - Kommunikativa mönster i sverigesvenska och finlandssvenska (2013-2020, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). University of Turku.
2010-2016: PhD candidate, Scandinavian Languages, University of Turku.
In 2025-2026, I am employed in two research projects/environments:
Communicative patterns in two languages (University of Turku, financed by The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, 2023-2026)
Linguistic justice, global migration and the Nordic welfare state (Linnaeus University and Åbo Akademi University; financed by The Swedish Research Council, 2023-2027)
I am a participant in the research project DOVE: Språket i domar i Sverige och Finland - variation och rättvisa (Language in judicial convictions in Sweden and Finland - variation and justice, financed by The Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, 2025-2027).
In addition, I am active in the research network Svenskan i Åbo (Swedish in Turku).
- Goddag, hej eller moi? Hälsningar i servicesamtal på svenska och finska (2026)
- Svenskan i Finland
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Suomen- ja ruotsinkielisten suomalaisten käsityksiä toistensa tervehdyksistä ja tervehtimistavoista (2026)
- Puhe ja kieli
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Att hälsa på svenska eller finska i servicesituationer (2025)
- Språkbruk
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Julkisen sektorin kielimaisemat: Turun yliopistollinen keskussairaala ja Varsinais-Suomen käräjäoikeus (2025) Kieli maisemassa, maisema kielessä. Tutkimuksia Turusta Tolvanen, Eveliina; Kuosa, Anne-Maria; Wide, Camilla
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Kieli ja oikeudenmukaisuus – vertaileva tutkimus Suomessa ja Ruotsissa kirjoitetuista rikostuomioista (2025)
- Kieli, Koulutus Ja Yhteiskunta
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Linguistic landscapes in healthcare: Language policy in practice (2025) Linguistic Diversity in Professional Settings Tolvanen, Eveliina; Kuosa, Anne-Maria; Wide, Camilla
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Lingvistiska landskap vid ett sjukhus och en domstol i Finland (2025)
- Svenskans Beskrivning
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Ruotsi monikielisessä Turussa – näkymiä kielipolitiikkaan (2025)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Uppfattningar om svenskans ställning i arbetslivet i Finland (2025)
- NORDAND
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Den svenskbetonade läkar- och tandläkarutbildningen vid Åbo universitet – innovativt samarbete över fakultets- och universitetsgränser (2024)
- Hiiskuttua: Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan verkkolehti
(D1 Article in a professional journal)
- KoM2Språk II01.05.2025 - 31.03.2027
- Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages
- KoM2Språk01.09.2023 - 31.12.2026
- Finnish, Finno-Ugric and Scandinavian languages



