معرفی
Rafael Lomeu Gomes holds dual roles as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and a guest researcher at MultiLing—Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo. He completed his PhD in Sociolinguistics at the University of Oslo (2020) and has extensive postdoctoral experience in multilingualism studies. His research focuses on three core areas: family multilingualism, media discourses & digital communication, and decoloniality/Southern epistemologies.
- Education: PhD in Sociolinguistics (University of Oslo, 2020)
- Postdoctoral tenure: MultiLing (2020–2023) and ongoing projects at UiT
His work interrogates language ideologies in Brazilian-Norwegian families, media representations of immigrant youth (e.g., 'kebabnorsk'), and decolonizing methodologies through the Global Virtual Forum initiative. This forum, co-founded in 2018, challenges Western-centric paradigms and has produced volumes like Decolonial Voices, Language and Race (2022). He actively disseminates research via YouTube and academic publishing.
Rafael has designed courses on multilingualism, language policy, and sociolinguistics at BA/MA levels in Norwegian. His media engagements include radio interviews on bilingual child-rearing strategies.
