Linguistic Integration of Refugee Children and their Families

Ute Bohnacker is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics & Philology and also a Reader in Scandinavian Languages. Her research expertise is mainly in first and second language acquisition, bilingualism, narrative, grammar and discourse, with a special interest in the Germanic languages. Her recent work has expanded towards language assessment and impaired populations and examines typical and atypical multilingual child language development in a Swedish context.

Professor

Ineta Dabašinskienė

Professor

Vytautas Magnus University

https://www.vdu.lt/en/person/ineta-dabasinskiene/

Dr. Ineta Dabašinskienė is Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Lithuanian Studies and Head of the Research Centre for Multilingualism at Vytautas Magnus University. Her research interests include, but are not limited to language policy and multilingualism, monolingual and multilingual language acquisition, and heritage language, as well as minorities, languages in education, etc.

Associate Professor

Tiina Rüütmaa

Associate Professor

Tallinn University

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Tiina_R%C3%BC%C3%BCtmaa

Associate Professor of Estonian as a Second Language

Lecturer/Researcher

Eglė Krivickaitė-Leišienė

Lecturer/Researcher

Vytautas Magnus University

Dr. Eglė Krivickaitė-Leišienė is a lecturer in the Department of Lithuanian Studies and a researcher at the Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research (SITTI) at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania. Her research interests include typical and atypical language development, first and second language acquisition and learning, as well as language disorders and their treatment.

PhD candidate

Rūta Dapkūnaitė

PhD candidate

Vytautas Magnus University

https://biceps.org/people/ruta-dapkunaite/

Rūta Dapkūnaitė is an anthropologist and research fellow specializing in migration and integration, cultural diversity, intercultural understanding, cultural models, social welfare, and consumer behaviour.

Junior Researcher

Ieva Prameneckienė

Junior Researcher

Vytautas Magnus University

Ieva Prameneckienė is a junior researcher at the Institute of Digital Resources and Interdisciplinary Research (SITTI) at Vytautas Magnus University. Areas of research interest: corpora linguistics, psycholinguistics, language for children and children, children's speech development, bilingualism / multilingualism, speech therapy.

Junior Lecturer

Piret Baird

Junior Lecturer

Tallinn University

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Piret_Baird/eng/

Junior Lecturer of Estonian as a Second Language

Professor

Anna Verschik

Professor

Tallinn University

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Anna_Verschik/eng/

Distinguished Professor of General Linguistics

Lecturer

Andra Kütt-Leedis

Lecturer

Tallinn University

https://www.etis.ee/CV/Andra_K%C3%BCtt/eng/

Lecturer of Estonian Language

Researcher

Oleksandra Hrebenshchykova

Hrebenshchykova, Oleksandra

Researcher

oleksandra.hrebenshchykova@uit.no

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Research Fellow

Alyona Shyba

Research Fellow

Vytautas Magnus University

Professor/Advisory Board Member

Mila Schwartz

Professor/Advisory Board Member

Oranim Academic College of Education

https://milaschwartz.wixsite.com/prof-milaschwartz

Mila Schwartz is a Full Professor of language and education and the Head of Research Authority at Oranim Academic College of Education (Israel). Her current research focuses on theorizing the phenomenon of interactions between child language-based agency, teacher agency, and parent's agency in early language education.

Professor/Advisory Board Member

Natalia Gagarina

Professor/Advisory Board Member

Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS)

https://www.leibniz-zas.de/en/people/details/gagarina-natalia/natalia-gagarina

Natalia Gagarina is a Professor of Linguistics and an expert on the language development and linguistic integration of children in migration settings, as well as on narrative and Slavic languages.

Professor/Advisory Board Member

Volodymyr Kulyk

Professor/Advisory Board Member

Kyiv School of Economics

https://www.huri.harvard.edu/people/volodymyr-kulyk

Volodymyr Kulyk is a Professor at Kyiv School of Economics. Since 2013, he serves as Ukraine’s representative in the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance. His research fields include the politics of language, memory and identity in contemporary Ukraine.