Languages, Cultures, Workplaces (LCW)
The research group Languages, Cultures, Workplaces provides a meeting place for researchers from the fields of sociolinguistics, cultural and organisational studies, all with an interest in languages and cultures in the workplace.
While anchored at the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, the group includes researchers from Copenhagen Business School, University of Southern Denmark and researchers from other UCPH departments, and this cross-institutional collaboration is a major strength of the group.
With its focus on linguistic and cultural diversity in the labour market, Languages, Cultures, Workplaces contributes with research relevant to societal challenges, specifically the challenge of recruitment and inclusion of international workers in the Danish labour market. Collaboration with external partners, including workplaces and organisations within healthcare, agriculture, tourism and education is key to the research conducted by the members.
- Languages and cultures in the healthcare sector
- Languages and cultures in workplaces within agriculture
- Negotiations around identity and belonging within cultural tourism in rural locations
- The use of AI in academic workplaces
- Intercultural communication and the changing nature of work (digital information and communications technology, multicultural teamwork, e.g. related to environment and the health sector)
- Language, migration and work
- Methodologically, many of the researchers in the group work within linguistic ethnography and discourse analysis.
- How to attract students from non-language programs to elective instrumental language modules (page about funding in Danish)
- Visiting the Margins. INnovative CULtural ToUrisM in European peripheries (INCULTUM)
- Language as an additional competence. German and French in Intercultural Market Studies (in Danish)
Researchers
| Name | Title | Phone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daryai-Hansen, Petra | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | +4535334482 | |
| Goodchild, Samantha | Postdoc | +4535331049 | |
| Hernández-Flores, Nieves | Associate Professor | +4535328441 | |
| Jelby, Kasper Engholm | PhD Fellow | ||
| Jensen, Jens Christian Borup Green | PhD Fellow | +4535333809 | |
| Jensen, Charlotte Sun | Postdoc | ||
| Kirilova, Marta | Associate Professor | +4535330329 | |
| Kraft, Kamilla | Associate Professor | ||
| Lomeu Gomes, Rafael | Assistant Professor | +4535321219 | |
| Lønsmann, Dorte | Associate Professor - Promotion Programme | +4535336633 | |
| Sørensen, Solvej Helleshøj | PhD Fellow | +4535330745 |
Affiliated researchers at Copenhagen Business School
| Humlebæk, Carsten |
| Smith, Viktor |
Affiliated researchers at University of Southern Denmark
| Schwalbe, Daria |
Coordinator
Dorte Lønsmann
Co-coordinator
Carsten Humlebæk, CBS
Activities
1 December 2025:
Guest lecture: The multilingual encounter in the Danish healthcare system, PhD Lisbeth Birkelund, University of Southern Denmark.
9 October 2025:
Guest lecture: Empty Words, Real Lives: Populist Migration Discourses Versus Border-Crossing Experiences with Associate Professor Nora Schleicher, University of Jyväskylä and Eötvös Loránd University.
24 June 2025:
Spring seminar with guest lecture: Escaping domestic worker servitude through the acquisition of Finnish: Upward mobility, governmentality, and the everyday making of the Filipina care worker by Associate Professor Anne Schluter, Department of English and Communication, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
23 May 2025:
Guest lecture: "Don’t be afraid of AI, be afraid of the colleague who knows how to use AI" – affective reactions to AI in language work by Dr. Mi-Cha Flubacher, ZHAW School of Applied Linguistics, Switzerland.
12 March 2025:
Guest lecture: The Global English Communication Project by Professor Emeritus Per Durst-Andersen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.
9 June 2024, 9:00 - 14:00:
Spring seminar: Presentations of ongoing or concluded research by Marta Kirilova, Daria Morgounova Schwalbe, Miguel Morillas and Anita Martos Harres.
30 November 2023, 9:00 - 12:00:
Fall seminar: Presentations of ongoing or concluded research by Carsten Jacob Humlebæk, Kerstin Martel, and Martin Carlsholt Unger.
23 May 2023, 9:00 - 15:00:
Spring seminar: Presentations of ongoing or concluded research by Dorte Lønsmann, Fumiko Kano and Minna Paunova. Discussion of new research projects and funding opportunities.
11 April 2023, 15:00-16:30:
"Model minorities" in a "sociolinguistic paradise"
Guest lecture by Verónica Pájaro, Associate Professor, University of Agder (Norway).