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Dr. Anastassia Zabrodskaja is a Professor of Intercultural Communication at Tallinn University, where she teaches intercultural communication and serves as Head of the Master's Programme in Communication Management. She is the Executive Director of the European Masters in Intercultural Communication (EMICC) and from 2022 to 2026 serves as principal investigator of the COST CA21143 project "Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe" in Estonia, where she also represents the country as a Management Committee member.
Her research focuses on intercultural communication, identity construction, ethnolinguistic vitality, linguistic landscape analysis, language contacts, and code-switching phenomena. She has conducted extensive empirical research on family language policy in multilingual contexts, particularly examining Russian-speaking families across Estonia, Sweden, Cyprus, Germany, and Israel. Her work bridges sociolinguistics with psychology and migration studies to understand how families navigate linguistic diversity across borders.
Recent publications reveal a strong interdisciplinary focus connecting language dynamics with psychological, social, and educational factors. Her work spans family language policy, translanguaging practices, pandemic impacts on language education, and refugee adaptation processes, demonstrating consistent attention to how global events reshape language practices and identities in multicultural settings.
- Principal Investigator, COST CA21143 project "Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe" (2022-2026)
- Executive Director, European Masters in Intercultural Communication (EMICC)
- Head, Master's Programme in Communication Management
Dr. Zabrodskaja leads significant research examining language dynamics across migrant communities, with particular focus on Ukrainian war refugees in Estonia's schools and language policy implementation in Kazakhstan. Her work connects theoretical frameworks with practical applications for language education policy, intercultural communication training, and support for multilingual families in diverse societal contexts across Europe.
