I have been a doctoral researcher at the Department of Education at the University of Turku since 2020. I have a lifelong interest in language learning, starting from learning languages as a child, to teaching languages during my 20s, to now researching about how language learning is part of processes of identity negotiation.

My research focuses on how adult immigrants negotiate their identities through Finnish language learning, especially as part of integration training. I understand identity as understanding of selves in relation to others, and in relation to our past, present and future possibilities. Language from a postructrualist perspective is more than signs and symbols for communication, it includes culture, history, social cues and power. Through language learning and linguistic interactions in and about the target language, adult immigrants learn to negotiate our senses of selves and long lasting identities as our relations to our previous selves, our current social networks, and our possibilities for the future.

I have been the main responsible for the Multicultural Education course during 2024 and 2025, offered mainly for students (local, international, and exchange) at the Faculty of Education.

I have also assisted in the course Educational Equality and Justice at the Faculty of Education.