Key details
Dr Erika Kalocsányiová
Research Fellow
Dr Erika Kalocsányiová has been a Research Fellow with the Institute for Lifecourse Development since May 2020.
Erika joined the university as an Enterprise & Partnerships Fellow in February 2020. Her research focuses primarily on displaced and refugee students' transitioning and re-integration into higher education. She has also been involved in research on multilingual pedagogies, adult language acquisition, and the ability of language to reproduce or challenge social inequalities. Erika has an ongoing interest in intercultural communication in healthcare and mental health education.
Erika obtained her PhD in Linguistics at the University of Luxembourg, where she examined the linguistic integration processes and outcomes of forced migrants who arrived in the country during the 2015-2016 refugee crises.
Posts previously held
- February 2020 – April 2020, Enterprise & Partnerships Fellow, Institute for Lifecourse Development, University of Greenwich
- December 2015 – November 2019, Doctoral Researcher, Institute for Research on Multilingualism, University of Luxembourg
Responsibilities within the university
Research Fellow with ILD | Centre for Mental Health & Centre for Thinking and Learning.
Recognition
- LANGSCAPE network
- IMISCOE research network
- Centre for Research & Enterprise in Language
Research / Scholarly interests
Erika has extensive experience in linguistic integration research and is skilled in a variety of qualitative research methods, including interviewing, stakeholder mapping, thematic, critical discourse and conversation analysis, ethnography, and various participatory research methods. Her research interests include linguistic repertoires and multilingual creativity, multiple language acquisition, language minority students' educational integration, and intercultural communication in education and healthcare.