Hi, I’m Melina, an independent researcher and developer with a passion towards languages, communication, and higher education. In my work, I help people working in multilingual knowledge organisations communicate better with each other.

These core values drive my work:

• Communication is always a two-way street: we should aim to become understood but also to understand.
• Languages and language use have power, but they can also be used to empower people.
• To keep improving our communication, we constantly need to ask critical questions from ourselves and others.
• Discrimination is never a justification for more discrimination.

What do I mean by these? Read more about my core values here.

Does your organisation look for opportunities to rethink communication? Please have a look at the workshops I facilitate. I’m also happy to be contacted about other collaboration opportunities regarding higher education research and teaching!

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_{Who, what, where? I was born and educated in Finland. I have an MA degree in the English language (University of Jyväskylä, Finland), and a PhD in Applied Linguistics (University of Jyväskylä, Finland). From 2015 to 2022 I lived in the Greater Geneva area, before moving to Groningen, the Netherlands. During my career, I’ve also worked in Russian and Swedish higher education institutions.}