Petra Daryai-Hansen is associate professor and coordinator of cross disciplinary courses and degrees at the Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen. 

Her main research area is foreign language education with specific focus on plurilingual education, Content and Language Integrated Learning, intercultural education and teacher/student cognition.

Since 2009, she has been involved in several Danish and international collaboration research projects, e.g. the projects Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to Languages and Cultures (European Centre for Modern Languages, Council of Europe), Elevernes internationale kompetencer i de gymnasiale uddannelser (Danish Ministry of Education), Sprogprofilerne i fransk, spansk og tysk (Roskilde University), Den sprogstrategiske satsning - flere sprog til flere studerende (University of Copenhagen), Developing teacher competences for pluralistic approaches (European Centre for Modern Languages, Council of Europe), Education for plurilingualism: Metalinguistic awareness in early instructed language learning (National Research Foundation Norway) and INTERREG projects focusing on language skills and intercultural competences in the Danish-German Fehmarn Belt region Den Mentale bro, Belt Science, kultKIT and KursKultur.

In a Danish and Nordic/Baltic context she has been coordinating the projects

• Developing the Language Awareness approach in the Nordic and Baltic countries (financed by Nordplus Horizontal)
• Tidligere sprogstart - ny begynderdidaktik med fokus på flersprogethed (financed by A.P. Møller og Hustru Chastine McKinney Møllers Fond til Almene Formaal)
• Developing Early Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in the Nordic/Baltic Context (financed by Nordplus Horizontal)
• Kvalitetsudvikling og efteruddannelse i et brobygningsperspektiv – en behovsanalyse i faget tysk (financed by NCFF)
• Tyskelevernes og -studerendes kognition (financed by NCFF).

The next three years she will be coordinating two projects: 

• Plurilingual Education – Minority and Majority Students' Language Awareness across Educational Levels (financed by the Independent Research Fund Denmark)
• CLIL in Languages Other Than English – Successful Transitions across Educational Stages (financed by European Centre for Modern Languages, Council of Europe).

In 2021, she has coordinated the "Digital series of talks on plurilingualism and interculturality". Furthermore, she has been a member of the Councl of Europe's Working Group for preparing a Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on the contribution of plurilingual education to democracy.

At the Faculty of Humanities Petra Daryai-Hansen's research is used as an example of the impact the humanities researchers have on society. Read the case: Building bridges between languages.

Read Curriculum vitae and list of publications 2022.  

Foreign language education, IKM, sociolinguistics

Weekly meeting time: Tuesday, 15:00-16:00

Employment                                          

2015-Present: Associate Professor, Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

2018-2021: Visiting Associate Professor, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

2015: Associate Professor, Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University

2015-2018: Docent, University College Copenhagen

2012-2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University

2011-2013: Course coordinator and lecturer, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, Copenhagen Business School

2009-2011: External lecturer, Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University

2007-2011: Course coordinator and language consultant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1990-2011: Translator, e.g. for Arte and SFB

Education

2010: PhD, Cultural Encounters, Roskilde University, ‘Begegnungen mit fremden Sprachen. Sprachliche Hierarchien im sprachenpolitischen Diskurs im Dänemark und Deutschland der Gegenwart’

2000: First State Examination in German and French, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Academic administration

2020-Present: Coordinator of cross disciplinary courses and degrees, Department of English, German and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

2016-2018: Head of the Foreign Language Education Programme, University College Copenhagen

2014-2015: Head of the Language Profiles in French, German and Spanish, Roskilde University

2012-2014: Deputy head of the Language Profiles in French and German, Roskilde University

2011-2013: Course coordinator, Department of Intercultural Communication and Management, German Area Studies, Copenhagen Business School

International Committees, Boards and Panels, e.g.

2020-2024: Member, International Advisory Board, Education for plurilingualism: Metalinguistic awareness in early instructed language learning (MetaLearn), National Research Foundation, Norway

2020-2021: Appointed member, Ad-Hoc Working Group for preparing a Draft Recommendation of the Committee of Ministers on the contribution of plurilingual education to democracy, Council of Europe

2019: Appointed member, Review Panel for research project grants into migration and integration, Swedish Research Council

2019: Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts (LIEMC19)

2019: Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Multilingual and Multicultural Learning: Policies and Practices

2019: Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Multilingual Awareness & Multilingual Practices (MAMP19)

2019: Member, Scientific Committee, EDiLiC Conference 2019

2019: Appointed expert, Report on access to language education and policies promoting equality in comprehensive education in EU countries, University of Jyväskylä

2018-2019: Member, Evaluation committee for postdoctoral position, Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen

2018: Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME18)

2018: Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts  

2017-Present: Member, Outer International Assessment Board, Irish Research Council

2017: Member, Scientific Committee, International Conference on Multilingualism and Multilingual Education (ICMME17)

2014-Present: Appointed member, International Committee, representative of the Nordic and Baltic countries, Education et Diversité Linguistique et Culturelle (EDiLiC)

National Committees, Boards and Panels, e.g.

2020-Present: Member, Strategic Committee, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

2019-Present: Member, Research Committee, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen

2019-Present: Member, PhD Committee, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

2019-Present: Appointed member, Advisory Board, KursKultur 2.0, EU’s Interreg-programme

2019-Present: Member, Advisory Board, Udvikling af undervisningsforløb og digitale læremidler til fremmedsprog i folkeskolen, The National Centre for Foreign Languages NCFF

2019-Present: Appointed member, Faggruppe for tysk, Ministry of Education

2019-Present: Member, Advisory Board, The National Centre for Foreign Languages NCFF.

2019: Member, Advisory Board, Udformning af lokal sprogstrategi på Nørre Fælled Skole, The National Centre for Foreign Languages, NCFF.

2018-Present: Appointed member, Advisory Board, kultKIT: dansk-tyske møder, EU’s Interreg-programme

2017-Present: Appointed member, Working Group on Adjusting the Academic Minimum Standards, Ministry of Education

2017-Present: Appointed member, Fagligt forum for tysk, Ministry of Education

2016-Present: Appointed member, Quality assurance of General Certificate of Lower Secondary Education in German, Ministry of Education

2016-Present: Appointed member, Think Tank about Language, Gymnasieskolernes Lærerforening

2016: Appointed member, Curriculum group in German, Ministry of Education

2015-2017: Member, Advisory Board, kultKIT, EU’s Interreg-programme

2014-Present: Member, Consortium for Language and Subject Matter Didactics in Primary and Lower Secondary School, University of Copenhagen

2014-2016: Member, Board committee, ECML-DK

2012-2016: Chairman, InfoDOK

2013-2014: Member, Department Council, Roskilde University