Niina Kunnas

I work at the University of Oulu as a University Lecturer of Finnish language. Since August 2017, I have also worked as a part-time Professor of Finnish language at the Sámi University of Applied Sciences in Kautokeino, Norway. I have done research concerning minority languages 20 years. Currently, I am a Principal Investigator of Northern Sociolinguistics Encounters -research community. It is part of the faculty’s Transcultural Encounters Research Centre (TCERC) and Eudaimonia institute. In 2020 I got Interreg project funding with my Swedish and Norwegian colleaques and I am a Finnish project leader in project Samverkansplattform för minoritetsspråk på Nordkalotten