Gavin Lamb's research develops nexus analysis as an ethnographic sociolinguistic approach to examining how language and intercultural communication shape human relationships with the natural environment. A major focus of this research is to better understand the multilingual practices used to enact different kinds of communities across offline and online spaces in relation to environmental issues such as endangered species protection, ecotourism, urban sustainability, and climate change. His current project examines youth language practices and ecocultural identities as expressed through their climate activism at the nexus of Oslo's multilingual, digital and urban landscapes.
Background
Gavin Lamb holds a PhD and MA in Second Language Studies from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and a BA in Japanese Language and Literature from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa including an exchange at Konan University in Kobe, Japan. His research has been published in international journals such as Applied Linguistics, Multilingua, and Applied Linguistics Review. He has taught language-related courses (multilingual education, bilingual culture and cognition, sociolinguistics) at the BA and MA level.