Job description

Khadij Gharibi is currently working as an EU adviser at the Centre for Sami Health Research at the Faculty of Health Sciences, where she supports the preparation of an application under the Health Cluster (Pillar II) of Horizon Europe. Prior to this role, she worked at the Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics (BFE) at UiT as an EU Rådgiver, supporting the development of two Horizon Europe WIDERA applications. Before working at different faculties, Khadij served as an EU Rådgiver in the Section for Research and Innovation (SeFI), where she mainly worked on the Arctic MSCA program.

Before joining SeFI, she held a Researcher position funded by the “Bridging the Gap between MSCA and ERC” award from central administration. Khadij completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship with the project CLICK, which examined the cross-linguistic influence of societal languages on the same heritage language, Persian, among heritage speakers across different European countries. Earlier in her career, she was a Newton International Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Essex, where she led a British Academy-funded project on the role of attrited input in heritage language development.

She earned her PhD in Applied Linguistics from Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, fully funded by a Doctoral Scholarship. Combining psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic approaches, her research focuses on the acquisition, attrition, and maintenance of heritage languages, particularly in bilingual contexts.