Current and recent positions

2014- present Associate Professor in The Psychology of Language (INSS, University of Copenhagen) 

2013-2014 Associate Professor in Danish Spoken Language (LANCHART, University of Copenhagen)

2012-2013 Supplemental Associate Professor, (INSS, University of Copenhagen)

2009-2012 Postdoc (Danish Research Council for Culture and Communication and University of Copenhagen, INSS) 

2010 Visiting researcher and lecturer (King’s College London, Centre for LDC)

Education

2013 Research management course (CBS/SIMI) 

2008  PhD (University of Copenhagen)

2003  MA in Danish Language (University of Copenhagen) 

I am interested in how meaning and interpersonal understanding in situated communication are related to more widespread socio-cultural and linguistic processes. In particular my research focuses on language use and communication in contemporary diverse urban contexts.

I am currently affiliated with the research project SoMeFamily that investigates language and social media in the family: https://nors.ku.dk/english/research/projects/somefamily---language-and-social-media-in-the-familiy/

In addition (2017-19) I have manage the research network SODIAC (Sociolinguistics, Diversity and Action) with a focus on what academics and practitioners can learn from each other about education under culturally an dlinguistically diverse conditions in formal and informal settings: https://nors.ku.dk/english/research/projects/sociolinguistics-diversity-and-action-sodiac/

We have published this book:

https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Perspectives-on-Linguistic-Fixity-and-Fluidity-Languagised-Lives/Jaspers-Malai-Madsen/p/book/9781138602977

I teach in the psychology of language primarily the course on analysis and methodology and in addition to this courses on language, power, identity and learning as linguistic and psychological practice.

I supervise a lot of MA dissertations with all kinds of interesting topics, but in my own work I mostly employ interaction analytical, discourse analytical and sociolinguistic methodology and I have a particular interest in the language use of children and youth, popular culture, leisure communities, identity practices, cultural diversity and educational institutions.