Taina Saarinen is Research Professor of Higher Education at the University of Jyväskylä, with a previous position in Language Education Policy at the Centre for Applied Language Studies at the University of Jyväskylä. She has published widely on higher education, language education policy, and contemporary and historical language policies, and her latest research interests focus on the political and historical multilayeredness of language policies. She has recently published in journals such as Higher Education, Language Policy, and Rethinking History, and is currently writing a monograph on language and new nationalism in Finnish higher education. She particularly enjoys multi-disciplinary and comparative topics (discussed in less academic surroundings), which often make unnoticed gaps and biases in existing research visible. For more information, visit her website: https://ktl.jyu.fi/en/staff/saarinen-taina
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