Research Associate, University of Oslo, Norway

Expertise: Research methodologies, translation stylistics, artistic features of translation, reception of translation, gender identity and translation, corpus-based studies

Dr Gabriela Saldanha is a researcher at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE) where she works on the development of the Oslo Medical Corpus and the Medicalisation of Democratic Rights in the debate about Abortion (MEDRA) project. She is Project Manager for the Erasmus+ Partnership for Cooperation in Higher Education, Debating Democracy. Gabriela’s research aims to explain how language shapes our knowledge of the world and how it can both restrict, challenge, and expand the work of the imagination as a social process. She has experience in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and artistic research and have a particular interest in the power of research methodologies to reveal, construct and limit our knowledge(s) and imagination.