About
I am Associate Professor of Pedagogy at the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education. I hold a PhD from the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Before joining OsloMet, I worked in the teacher education programmes at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) and University College Copenhagen (Denmark).
I work on research related to the role of teachers in schools and society, often drawing on comparative perspectives. Current areas of work include teacher professional identity and retention, multicultural and multilingual teacher professionalism, multilingual literacies in education and teacher activism. I am also interested in exploring, combining, and developing research methods for studying educational practices.
You can find out more about my research, projects and publications here: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5418-8158
Field of study
Comparative research Professional identity Professional development in schools Teacher professionalism Educational research Applied linguistics Teacher role Critical Multiculturalism Longitudinal studies Learning in interaction Multilingualism in education Classroom interaction
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Lundqvist, Ulla
(2026).
What can education become through linguistic and cultural mediation?.
Pedagogy, Culture & Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2026.2685654
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Erduyan, Işıl
(2025).
Syncretic literacy practices among Arab heritage students in Denmark .
Language and Education.
Vol. 39.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2024.2308813
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Thingstrup, Signe Hvid; Åkerblom, Annika
(2025).
Multicultural and multilingual educator professionalism.
Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE).
Vol. 9.
https://doi.org/10.7577/njcie.6001
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Rinne, Ilona; Yildirim, Ali
(2024).
From parent-teacher relations to professional identity in Danish and Swedish schools.
Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice.
Vol. 30.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2024.2312511
Thingstrup, Signe Hvid; Harju, Anne;
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Prins, Karen Mathilde; Åkerblom, Annika
(2023).
Globalisation in and of Nordic Early Childhood Education: Tensions between the local and the global.
Global Studies of Childhood.
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231186307
Lundberg, Osa;
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Åkerblom, Annika; Risenfors, Signild
(2023).
'Can you teach me a little Urdu?' Educators navigating linguistic diversity in pedagogic practice in Swedish preschools.
Global Studies of Childhood.
Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106231176964
Rinne, Ilona;
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Johannsen, Bjørn Friis; Yildirim, Ali
(2023).
“When you get out there, you don't have a toolbox”. A comparative study of student teacher's identity development in Swedish and Danish teacher education.
Teaching and Teacher Education : An International Journal of Research and Studies.
Vol. 122.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2022.103958
Lundqvist, Ulla
; Kolstrup, Kirsten
(2023).
Lost in translanguaging? Er 'stance' den oversete dimension i den danske 'oversættelse' af translanguaging-begrebet til sprogpædagogisk praksis i folkeskolen?.
Sprogforum.
Vol. 77.
https://doi.org/10.7146/spr.v29i77.142108
Lundqvist, Ulla
(2022).
At blive en dygtig elev: Social identitet i skolens klassefællesskaber.
Cepra-striben - tidsskrift for Evaluering i Praksis.
Vol. 30.
https://doi.org/10.17896/UCN.cepra.n30.469
Lundqvist, Ulla
(2019).
Smart, smarter, smartest: Competition and linked identities in a Danish school.
Anthropology & Education Quarterly.
Vol. 50.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.12289