Kaisa Pankakoski is an author, translator, postdoctoral fellow at Cardiff University School of English, Communication and Philosophy, and associate researcher at Cardiff University Language, Policy and Planning Research Unit.
Her research focuses on multilingual families and more specifically Family Language Policy. She is currently writing a book based on her PhD research findings on parents’ and children’s language ideologies, strategies, and experiences. She is also conducting a follow-up study among her original 58 PhD case study parents and now teenage children, with the aim to collect data on change, wellbeing, and hindsight.
She has previously published in several non-academic contexts and peer-reviewed journals, including Early Child Development and Care.