Nina Nørgaard

Curriculum

Nina Nørgaard is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Department of Culture and Language, SDU, specialising in multimodal communication. She has a PhD in English stylistics (2002) and a dr.phil. (Higher Doctorate in the Humanities) in multimodal stylistics (2020). 

Research Interests

Nina's research interests include multimodality, multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA), multimodal stylistics, health communication, sustainability communication and the semiotics of typography and architecture.

Currently, Nina's research revolves around sustainability communication and sexual health communication from a multimodal perspective. Her recent work in those fields includes multimodal studies of environmental sustainability and social (in)justice in a sports fashion campaign (Nørgaard 2022), the green rebranding of a Danish energy company (Nørgaard 2023), the semiotics of corporate testimonial videos (Dalby Kristiansen and Nørgaard 2023) and Danish health organisations’ contraception information for young adults (Nørgaard and Jepsen 2023).

Nina is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project Ignorance and Inequality in Sexual Health – Addressed from a Multimodal Communicative Perspective (2023-2027), funded by the VELUX Foundation. This project addresses ignorance and inequality in sexual health in Denmark through a communication perspective. The project members examine information materials, websites and social media to understand how organisations, health communication professionals and ordinary Danes communicate about sex, gender, diversity, contraception, STIs, consent and menopause, thereby aiming to create a basis for clear communication that can promote knowledge and break down taboos and barriers to equality in sexual health in Denmark.

Together with Theo van Leeuwen, Nina heads the International Sexual Health Promotion Network which researches the use of visual communication in sexual and reproductive health promotion globally. This collaboration has resulted in a special issue of the academic journal Visual Communication on Visuals in Sexual Health Promotion (Nørgaard, Jepsen and van Leeuwen 2023).

Nina teaches a broad range of disciplines in English language and communication, including courses on multimodality and sustainability communication.