My primary research interests are at the interdisciplinary interface between sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, human geography and mobility studies, specifically within the fields of discourse, globalization, migration, multilingualism, education and tourism studies.
I hold a PhD in Modern English Linguistics from the University of Bern, Switzerland (2009), and am a former SNSF Marie Heim-Vögtlin Fellow (2015-2017). I am currently a Senior Lecturer at the Department of English at the University of Bern. Prior to this position, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cologne (2020-2021), Germany directly with the Vice-Rector of Teaching and Student Affairs, Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse.
From 2017-2020, I worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (MultiLing), an internationally leading research center, based in Oslo and financed by the Research Council of Norway’s Center of Excellence scheme. I was hired to contribute to MultiLing’s flagship project Multilingualism and Globalization: Perspectives from Norway, a project made possible by the University of Oslo's funding from the Norwegian Parliament for five world-leading research communities. My individual project entitled, Embodied Sociolinguistics through Yoga in a Globalized World investigates embodied sociolinguistics, multimodal and multilingual language practices within a yoga studio and draws on a mixed methodological approach by incorporating interactional sociolinguistic methods, narrative analysis and mobile ethnography.
I am also a strong advocate of gender equality within academia and have addressed this in my work (Gonçalves 2019b). This has also been the impetus for two successful international workshops I organized at the University of Oslo, Norway entitled, “Women and Leadership”, in 2018 & 2019.
