• PL 9 (Siltavuorenpenger 5A)

    00014

    Finland

  • Yliopistonkatu 3

    00014 Helsingin yliopisto

    Finland

20042025

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Personal profile

Curriculum vitae

Fred Dervin is a world-renowned interculturalist who has made a strong impact on Intercultural Communication Education and Research over the past 25 years. A Full Professor at the Faculty of Educational Sciences (University of Helsinki, Finland), Dervin proposes original and refreshing approaches to understanding the politics of global interactions by challenging conventional paradigms and blending interdisciplinary insights. His work aims to inspire e.g., teacher educators, researchers and students to rethink and reshape the notion of interculturality. With over 300 publications, Dervin is included in the Stanford Elsevier List of the world’s best scientists (Top 2%). His latest books include The Routledge Handbook of Critical Interculturality (2024, Routledge) and Intercultural Self-Defence (2025, Routledge). 

Fields of Science

  • 516 Educational sciences
  • Intercultural education / teacher identity, hybrid student identity
  • Teacher education
  • higher education
  • internationalization of education
  • Language education
  • 6121 Languages
  • Applied linguistics, discourse studies, pragmatics
  • 5141 Sociology
  • multiculturalism
  • migration
  • mobility
  • identity

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