Hanna Sofia Rehnberg

Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Scandinavian Languages

Telephone:
+46 18 471 12 95
E-mail:
hannasofia.rehnberg@nordiska.uu.se
Visiting address:
Thunbergsvägen 3L, hus 16, plan 2
Institutionen för nordiska språk
Postal address:
Uppsala universitet
Institutionen för nordiska språk, Box 527
751 20 UPPSALA

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ORCID:
0000-0002-6262-4607

Short presentation

As a senior lecturer and associate professor of Swedish linguistics, I investigate language use in contemporary society. My research interests include communication in the asylum process, narrativity and storytelling, and organizational communication (with a particular focus on the public sector). I am the programme coordinator for the Bachelor's Programme in Languages at Uppsala University.

Biography

Before joining Uppsala University, I was a senior lecturer in Swedish (2015–2017) and Journalism (2017–2022) at Södertörn University in Stockholm. I earned my PhD in Scandinavian Languages from Uppsala University in 2014, with a dissertation on organizational storytelling. Prior to starting my doctoral studies, I worked for many years as a journalist. On my personal website, you can read more about my research as well as other (mainly professional) activities I am engaged in: hannasofia.nu (in Swedish)

Research

I investigate language use in contemporary society, and my research interests lie primarily within the field of applied linguistics. I work in interdisciplinary settings and draw on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including linguistic ethnography, social semiotics, and linguistic and narrative discourse analysis.

During the spring of 2026, I am a visiting scholar at Ghent University, where I am spending my time synthesizing results from the research project Asylum Narratives, which I led between 2018 and 2022.

I also conduct interdisciplinary research on public organizations’ news production and their use of journalistic methods and formats, as well as on municipal citizen communication on social media.

Earlier research projects

2017–2018: Auditing the school sector: A comparative study of systems of school inspection in Sweden, Finland, and Poland. I contributed with a discourse analysis comparing discursive media constructions of PISA in Sweden and Finland. (Conducted in affiliation with The Academy of Public Administration, Södertörn University, Stockholm.)

2015–2016 The Swedish Transport Administration, a modern agency. I employed a linguistic perspective focusing on organizational communication, identities, cultures, and branding. (Conducted in affiliation with The Academy of Public Administration, Södertörn University, Stockholm.)

My doctoral thesis When organizations tell stories from 2014 focuses on strategic storytelling.

Hanna Sofia Rehnberg

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