Pia Quist

Pia Quist

Center director

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

Personal profile

Short presentation

Pia Quist is director of the Center of Excellence Changing Urban and Rural Lives (TRANSITION), Danmarks Grundforskningsfond

Her research interests include:
Multilingualism
Dialects
Language and Gender
Youth and language
Language in the city
Language and social mobility

Research projects:

Speaking Up. Language and Social Mobility 
(2021-2024, The Danish Council for Independent Research for Culture and Communication)

The Sound of Copenhagen
(2019-2023, funded by the VELUX Foundation)

Language, Body and Place in the 21st Century
(2018-2019, The Carlsberg Foundation's 'Semper Ardens' Fellowships within the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Language and place - linguistic variation in country and city in Denmark
(2014-2018, The Danish Council for Independent Research for Culture and Communication) 

Dialect in the Periphery
(2015-2018, VELUX)

Pia Quist is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, has served on the Independent Research Fund Denmark (Culture and Communication), and is a member of the research committee of the Danish Language Council and the board of the Foundation for Danish-Norwegian Cooperation. A full CV is available upon request.

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Multilingualism
  • Gender and language
  • Youth and language
  • Language and identity
  • Ethnography
  • Community of practice