Petteri Laihonen

I study multilingual learning environments and develop extreme citizen science methods.

Since 2021, I work as a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Applied Language Studies.

I serve as the JYU PI for the project ‘A European multilingual citizen science research project in co-located schools in Finland and Italy’, funded by Svenska Kulturfonden (2021-2023).

I represent JYU as a researcher in the project ‘Nordic Basic Schools as Past, Present and Future Sites for Solving the Challenges of Making Diverse Inclusive Knowledge-Based Societies’ funded by the Future Challenges in the Nordics research program (2022-2026).

I serve as a lab contact person for the FORTHEM Multilingualism in School and Higher Education Lab since 2020. I am the co-chair for the Citizen Science in schools project of the Multilingualism Lab. I serve as the PI for Modelling Citizen Science for education: developing projects on linguistic and cultural diversities (MSCEDU)  FITFORTHEM co-creation project (2022-2023).

I am also a researcher in the Developing a Laboratory of Cultural Heritage in Romania (CHAIRO) (2022–2025) Horizon-Widera project and in the Language revitalization, language socialization, language ideology: Participatory sociolinguistic research on and with stakeholders of the Moldavian Csángó Hungarian Educational Programme (2019-2023) project funded by Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA).