Heike Speitz has been a professor of language education at the University of South-Eastern Norway since 2015. She has long experience from teaching and research at college and university level in several countries, and from teaching languages in upper-secondary schools in Norway. National and international research and development projects focus on curriculum development and language policies, an earlier start to foreign languages in school, and pluri-/multilingualism in languages education. As head of the languages section at Telemark Educational Research, she was involved in international projects with the Council of Europe, connected to the CEFR and the European Language Portfolio (ELP/PEL). Multilingualism, language learning, culture and identity are key words in her professional activities. For the past year, Heike Speitz has been the head of USN’s Ph.D. program in Culture Studies.
