Anna Fardau Schukking (MA, University of Groningen) is a research assistant at the Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning, which is part of the Fryske Akademy in Leeuwarden. At Mercator, she has worked on several research projects focusing on issues relating to the role of language in education, language policy and planning and societal multilingualism, especially in minority language contexts.