I hold a position as full professor in The teaching and Learning of Swedish, and Reader in General linguistics. I lead the new research environment LiLL (Learning in Language and Literature), and I am also the subject representative for the subject Swedish.

My research interest include on language development through the lifespan, and is particularly focused on language production and cognitive aspects of writing: How does a text come into being? Does this differ between writers of different ages, and with different experience? And are there similarities and differences between writing and speaking? Over the years, I have been involved in many research projects that have investigated these issues. I have further been engaged in developing research method, including investigating writing, for example using the keylogging program ScriptLog, which has also been combined with eye movement measurement. Another interest is research infrastructure, which I have been involved in in various ways, for example as deputy director at Lund University's Humanities Laboratory 2018–2021.

Ongoing research projects include the MAW-funded project "Based on a true story?" (at Lund University, 2020–2025), which investigates how the exploration of language production processes in speech and writing can be used to distinguish between fictional and self-experienced stories, as well as the new VR-funded project "Will writing ever be the same? On AI, Writing Processes and Writing Practices in Secondary School", together with Eva Lindgren (main applicant, Umeå University), Åsa Wengelin (University of Gothenburg) and Carina Hermansson (University of Borås).

My research focuses on language production, language development and writing and is characterized by interdisciplinary collaboration and methodological interest.

Some recent research publications include an article that discusses and exemplifies how to measure cognitive effort in written language production and spoken language production, an article that investigates how linguistic background affects the writing processes in deaf and hard of hearing children, a methodological book chapter that describes how keystroke logging can be used to investigate L2 writing, another methodological book chapter that describes how keylogging can be combined with eye-tracking to investigate typing processes, and a methodological overview chapterof how writing can be examined with keylogging.

Doctoral supervision

I supervise several doctoral project:

Kajsa Gullberg (Lunds university) with the project ”Spoken and written processes in invented and experienced narratives”.

Mojtaba Sayyad Mahernia (Lunds university) with the project ”Functional Analysis of Meaning Generation During Writing”.

Håkan Johansson (Kristianstad University) with a project about literacy practice at the workplace and in vocational education and training (VET).

Lisa Hector (Kristianstad University) with a project about longitudinal writing development in middle school, from a cognitive perspective.

Kristina Lundgren (Kristianstad University) with a project which preliminary focusses on early reading and writing development.

Previous doctoral supervision includes:

Moa Gärdenfors (Stockholm University) with the dissertation “Writing in deaf and hard-of-hearing children. A bimodal bilingual perspective on their written products and writing processes” (Defended in Jan 2024).

Emily Grenner (Lund University) with the dissertation “Observational learning for narrative writing in elementary school. Text quality and self-efficacy in students with normal hearing and students with hearing loss” (Defended in Sep 2020).

Nele Põldvere (Lund University) with the dissertation ”What’s in a Dialogue? : On the dynamics of meaning-making in English Conversation” (Defended in Sep 2019)

I teach, supervise and examine courses within the Primary Teacher Education Programme, the Secondary Teacher Education Programme, the Preschool Teacher Programme, the Master's Programme and in Postgraduate Education. My teaching is often related to language learning, writing, speech and language development, text analysis, and research methods and theory.