Anastassia Zabrodskaja is an Intercultural Communication Professor and Head of the Communication Management Master’s programme. She is the Executive Director of the European Masters in Intercultural Communication programme. Her primary research interests are identity, language contacts, and linguistic landscapes. Prof. Zabrodskaja serves as the Regional Representative for Europe on the Executive Committee of the International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP). She is also the President-Elect of IALSP. Prof. Zabrodskaja serves as chair in the International and Intercultural Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association. A. Zabrodskaja is an expert in the social psychology of language. She has been involved in research projects on the development of the Estonian linguistic environment, bilingual speech, and aspects of ethnolinguistic vitality, where her roles as a (main) project investigator have included scientific research to analyse language dynamics and change in Estonia. Her research has focused on identity dynamics and declared language behaviour and language ideologies among both ethnolinguistically mixed and ethnolinguistically monolingual families in Estonia in order to understand intergenerational language transmission processes. She explores the acculturation experience of international students in Estonia. She is experienced in using qualitative methods in the field of sociolinguistics and communication.
