Biography and expertise
Biography
Dr Anna Eva Hallin is a speech-language pathologist, researcher, and lecturer based in Stockholm, Sweden and Sydney, Australia. She holds a Ph.D. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from New York University and is an assistant professor at Karolinska Institutet, Department of Clinical Sciences, Intervention and Technology. 2025-2027 she is a visiting Fellow at Southern Cross University, Faculty of Health. Her professional background includes clinical work, academic teaching, and leadership roles in research and evidence-based practice in the areas of language and literacy in children and young people.
Dr Hallin's work contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals
Research
Dr Hallin’s research focuses on language, reading, and writing development and disorders in children and adolescents, particularly those with developmental language disorder (DLD) and associated neurodevelopmental disorders. She is interested in how research can inform both clinical and educational practices, and she collaborates across disciplines including education, pedagogy, and psychology in Sweden, the USA and Australia. Her current project, INCLUDE (Interprofessional Coaching to Enhance Language and Learning in Secondary Classrooms Using Digital Education for Teachers) develops and evaluates a digital teacher professional development program for inclusive practices for youth with language and literacy challenges through collaboration between teachers and speech language pathologists. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council and is hosted at Southern Cross University during her Visiting Fellowship (2025–2027), and her co-researchers are professor Natalie Munro (SCU), professor Christina Samuelsson (Karolinska Institutet) and senior lecturer Nils Kirsten (Uppsala University).
Teaching
At Karolinska Institutet, Dr Hallin teaches in the speech and language pathology study program and has coordinated the second year of the curriculum. She regularly supervises final theses, masters’ thesis and is co-supervisor to one doctoral student. She serves as the international academic coordinator at the Division of speech and language pathology and is supporting both student and faculty mobility and digital collaboration between universities. Her teaching philosophy emphasises student engagement and reflection, connection between theory and clinical practice, evidence-based practice, interprofessional learning, and accessibility of research for students and practitioners alike.
Community Engagement
Dr Hallin is committed to science communication and public engagement. In 2015, she launched a Swedish-language research blog to make language and literacy research accessible to clinicians, educators, and families, with around 200 000 page views per year. She has also contributed to many professional development initiatives in Swedish Government Agencies, SLP clinics, and schools, and served as Director of Research and Evidence-Based Practice at Röstkonsulten speech and language clinics from 2015 to 2021. For her public engagement and spreading of knowledge she was awarded the Speech and Language award by the Swedish organization SITS in 2021.