Research – Department of Language and Culture

Research – Department of Language and Culture

The department has very strong research environments within linguistics and houses one of the world’s foremost research communities in linguistics represented by Center for Language, Brain and Learning (C-LaBL). The center is funded by the Trond Mohn Research Foundation and UiT. The department has two top research groups: Language Acquisition, Variation, and Linguistic Attrition with a focus on Norwegian contexts (AcqVA-Nor) and Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian (CLEAR). Additionally, there are research groups such as Giellatekno (Sami language technology) and The Multilingual North: Diversity, Education, and Revitalization (MultiNor). Within literature studies, art history, and media and documentation studies, the department has the following research groups: Arctic Voices, Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (ENCODE), Health, Art and Society (HAS), Interdisciplinary Phenomenology (IP), Pax Slavia in Flux: European Contexts (PSIF), and Worlding Northern Art (WONA).

The department also has the following research networks: Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Community (LAMCOM), Marginalization in Early Modern Spain: Theories and Practices (MEMS), Sami Language Acquisition and Revitalization (SámGOE), The Hamsun/Ibsen Network, and Narrating the High North.

We have 16 projects at our unit: