Solvej Helleshøj Sørensen

Solvej Helleshøj Sørensen

  • Emil Holms Kanal 2

    2300 København S

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PhD project: Communicative challenges for nurses from outside the EU/EEA in Denmark

Supervisor: Martha Sif Karrebæk

This project uses linguistic ethnography to explore the role of language in the recruitment, employment and retention of nurses from outside the EU/EEA in Danish hospitals.

I have previously worked with sociolinguistic perspectives on courtroom interpreting as a research assistant in the INTERPRETING project.

Primary fields of research

Sociolinguistics

Multilingualism

Language at work

Language and globalization

Language commodification

Linguistic ethnography

Migration

Transnational health care workers

CV

2020 - Master of Arts in Psychology of Language, University of Copenhagen

2018 - Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern Language and Society: Arabic, University of Copenhagen

Education/Academic qualification

Psychology of Language, Master of Arts

20182020

Middle-Eastern Language and Society: Arabic, Bachelor of Arts

20142018

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • sociolinguistics
  • language and work
  • language and globalization
  • multilingualism
  • linguistic ethnography
  • migration
  • Health care communication
  • International recruitment

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