About
I am associate professor of education at the Department of Primary and Secondary Teacher Education at OsloMet. I hold a master of arts (cand.mag) and a PhD from the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Before joining OsloMet, I worked in the teacher education programmes at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and University College Copenhagen in Denmark.
I research and teach topics related to the teacher's role in schools and society, often from a comparative perspective. I am enthusiastic about employing and combining different research methods.
I am interested in supervising PhD candidates working on topics related to my working areas. As a supervisor, I emphasise dialogue and transparent communication. It is important for me to support the candidates in pursuing their research interests and developing their competence as researchers and academics.
Working areas
- Teacher professionalism
- Identity, competence and retention in education and work
- Multilingualism, literacy and learning in education
- Political activism in schools
- Pre-service and in-service teacher education
You can find out more about my research, projects and publications here: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5418-8158
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Subject areas
Discourse analysis Cross-national comparison Professional identity Sociolinguistics Teacher professionalism Educational research Identity Multiculturalism Participation Professional Development Linguistic ethnography Multilingual literacy Multilingualism in education Classroom-interactions
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
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
; Erduyan, Işıl
(2024).
Syncretic literacy practices among Arab heritage students in Denmark .
Language and Education.
Vol. 39.
https://doi.org/10.1080/09500782.2024.2308813
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.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2024.2312511
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
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
(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
Lundqvist, Ulla
(2019).
The burden of smartness: Teacher's pet and classmates' teasing in a Danish classroom.
8 p.
Linguistics and Education.
Vol. 52.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2019.05.005