Yulia Rodina

Yulia Rodina is a Professor of Linguistics and Language Acquisition at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, affiliated with the Department of Language and Culture. She leads the AcqVA-Nor research group and directs the Flere språk til flere initiative. As Deputy Chair of the HSL Faculty Research Ethics Committee, she oversees ethical standards in research.

Her research focuses on multilingualism, second/third language acquisition, and language attrition using experimental psycholinguistic methods. Key themes include grammatical gender, morphosyntax, and cross-linguistic influence in languages like Russian, Norwegian, Bosnian, and Serbian. She investigates heritage language development in children across Norway, Germany, and the UK, and explores language variation and change in Norwegian dialects.

Rodina teaches courses in Second Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, and Varieties of English. She supervises MA theses on topics such as gaming's role in vocabulary acquisition and syntactic development in bilingual children. Her work is supported by projects funded through the Arctic MSCA, RCN, and EU initiatives like AcqVA Aurora and MultiGender.

She collaborates with international teams on studies like the MAP project (Heritage Russian in Spain) and CLIMAD (cross-linguistic influence in multilingualism). Her labs include AcqVA, PoLaR, and C-LaBL, focusing on acquisition, variation, and attrition processes.