I primarily engage in research on language and social interaction, with recurring themes focusing on how participation, influence, and joint decision-making are achieved in human interaction. My doctoral dissertation External link. explored how young people in subordinate power positions were included—or not—in local politics.

Between 2024 and 2027, I hold an international postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council within the humanities. Following this, from 2027 to 2029, I will be a postdoctoral researcher in the project Talking Green Grassroot Democracy: Revisiting the Anatomy of Joint Decision-Making with and among Young Climate Activists in Finland and Sweden, funded by the Kone Foundation.

In my postdoctoral project Hope and Hopelessness in Climate Activism, I examine emotions, actions, and decision-making within the climate movement. A particular focus is on the movement's redefined view of hope, captured in slogans like “hope is a verb” and the call to action, “it’s time to be the hope.” What does it mean to transform hope into action? And what happens to hope when those actions are met with silence, in a world that fails to respond? To better understand the interplay between hope, hopelessness, and collective action, I conduct interviews and extensive video ethnography of climate activism.

Side projects:

• Sexual consent in fiction and reality, with a focus on interaction, voluntariness, ambivalence, and coercion.
• Communication between RLS patients and doctors during consultations at specialist clinics.

Publications External link.