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Dr.
Per Gustafson
Task 6.4
Language needs of retirees
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Uppsala Universitet was founded in 1477 and is the oldest University in the Nordic countries. Its nine faculties host 40,000 students and number 6,000 employees. Uppsala Universitet is ranked as one of the top 100 in Times Higher Education ranking. The university is currently involved in more than 200 EU-funded projects (approximately 20 as coordinator). The Institute for Housing and Urban Research is a multi-disciplinary research department under the Faculty of Social Sciences. Research at the institute covers housing, the built environment and urban issues, but also migration and mobility. Since 2010, the institute holds a long-term program grant for research on international migration and ethnic relations, funded by one of the major Swedish research councils. Recent international evaluations have praised the high international quality of the research performed at the institute.
Task in the project
Uppsala Universitet will lead task 6.4 on “Language needs of mobile retirees”, in the “Frontiers of multilingualism” work package. Given its topic, closer interaction is expected with work package 4 “Mediation”, but task 6.4, will also contribute to other MIME tasks in relation to issues of mobility, identity and social cohesion, banking on the team leader’s targeted expertise in retirement migration.
Staff
  • Dr. Per Gustafson
  • Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss Hansen
Experience
The team leader is a specialist of retirement migration who has also published widely on transnationalism, dual citizenship, international travel, localism/cosmopolitanism and territorial belonging, and carried out both in-house and externally funded research projects on these issues. He's a member of international research networks in the fields of lifestyle migration and business mobilities. Since 2010, he is also program secretary for ‘Dilemmas of diversity’, a major multidisciplinary research program about international migration and ethnic relations at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala Universitet.

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).