Main research interests are Caucasian languages from sociolinguistic and typological perspectives. Extensive experience of fieldwork in the Caucasus region and developing and conducting online education.
Dr. Vamling approaches linguistic diversity from different perspectives: how human languages may vary (the typological perspective) and what linguistic diversity means to society and the individual (the sociolinguistic perspective). In both cases she focuses mainly on data from Europe’s linguistically most diverse region: the Caucasus. In this region she mainly works on data from the Kartvelian languages and on Circassian in Northwest Caucasus.
Karina Vamling has experience from working at the Department of Linguistic at Lund University, but also in different multidisciplinary environments at the School of International Migration and Ethnic Relations (Program Language, Migration and Globalisation) and later at the Faculty of Culture and Society at Malmö University, where she developed Caucasus Studies together with Dr. Märta-Lisa Magnusson.
Dr. Vamling is the co-founder of several research environments: Center for Caucasus Studies at Øresund University (link), Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCARR; link) at Malmö University and, most recently, Caucasus Studies Collegium Sweden.
She is the recipient of several scientific awards (read more).