I am a PhD research fellow in Scandinavian Linguistics (2022-2026). My PhD education is provided by the University of Bergen and funded by Volda University College. I mainly focus on Norwegian place-name research, but am interested in Norwegian language history and dialects as well.

In my PhD research, I study variation and change in traditional dialectal pronunciation of farm names in Ullensvang between the end of 19th century and the end of 20th century. 

Here is my profile at Volda University College. 

Please see my page in NVA.

Otherwise, I was a co-editor for the annual bulletin for Norwegian name research, Nytt om namn nr. 73/74 (2022/2023) and nr. 75 (2023).

In addition, I contribute to the bulletin with short articles, e.g.

- Onomastics Online, ICOS-kongress i 2024 og ICOS-sumarskule i 2023 (international news, pp.56-58, in nr. 73/74)

- Språksamlingane som temanummer i Maal og Minne (review, pp. 85-86, in nr. 73/74)

Work experience

As part of my duty work in the PhD programme (2022-2026), I have completed tasks for both Volda University College and Univ. Bergen, e.g.

• digital clean-up work for Norwegian Place-Name Archive (Norsk stadnamnarkiv (external link)), Univ. Bergen
• arrangement work for The 17th Conference on Lexicography in the Nordic Region (den 17. konferansen om leksikografi i Norden), Univ. Bergen
• arrangement work for the seminar The Norwegian Names Act - 100 years of regulation of gender (Den norske namnelova - 100 år med regulering av kjønn (external link)), Univ. Bergen
• arrangement work for the seminar Future Onomastics (Framtidas onomastikk (external link)) at The 20th Conference on Norwegian Language (20. møte om norsk språk) (external link)
• teaching and supervision in selected components of undergraduate courses in Norwegian linguistics, Volda University College

Research assistant for the project Norsk Ordbok a-h at Univ. Bergen (2021 - 2022, part-time job for one year)

Research assistant for the project Nafnið.is (external link) at Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies (external link), Iceland (six weeks full-time job in 2020)

Education

PhD in Scandinavian Linguistics, University of Bergen (2022 - present )

Viking and Medieval Norse Studies, University of Iceland & University of Oslo (MPhil/MA, 2019 - 2021) 

Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics, University of Edinburgh (MA Hons, 2015 - 2019, with a one-year Erasmus exchange at the University of Oslo between 2017 and 2018)

Organisation

I am a member in International Council of Onomastic Sciences (ICOS (external link), including ICOS Young Scholar Network (external link)), The Nordic Cooperative Committee for Onomastic Research (NORNA) (external link), New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics (external link) og The Uppsala Place-Name Society (Ortnamnssällskapet i Uppsala (external link)).

I was a co-editor for Nytt om namn (external link), which is a newsletter bulletin for Norwegian name research by Norwegian Name Society (Norsk namnelag) (external link). 

I am part of the research group in Sociolinguistics and Language Change (forskergruppa i sosiolingvistikk og språkendring), Univ. Bergen.