Research profile

Cheryl Marie Cordeiro is an applied researcher with a PhD in General Linguistics from the University of Gothenburg. Her work spans circular bioeconomy, sustainability transitions, food and water systems, soil health, international collaboration, and cross-cultural communication.

• Applied research across academic, research institute, and industry settings.
• Experience in Norway, Sweden, Singapore, and broader Nordic and Asian/Southeast Asian contexts.
• Advanced competence in qualitative, corpus-based, and discourse-analytical methodologies.

Project leadership and science-policy work

Her EU project work includes lead coordination, consortium development, proposal writing, Grant Agreement Preparation, project governance, stakeholder engagement, and science-policy framing.

• Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role for iCOSHELLs, FERTITEC, and CiNURGi.
• Lead Author, IPBES Nexus Assessment, 2022–2024.
• Experience across Horizon Europe, Mission Soil, Zero Pollution, and Interreg Baltic Sea Region frameworks.

EU research and innovation projects
Horizon Europe, Mission Soil, Interreg, consortium building, work package design, proposal writing, and project coordination.

Circular bioeconomy and resource recovery
Nutrient recycling, recycled fertilisers, circular water systems, wastewater governance, and sustainable agri-environmental systems.

SSH methodologies
Co-creation, stakeholder engagement, user-centric design, corpus analysis, discourse analysis, qualitative methods, and cross-cultural communication.

Science-policy interface
Policy framing, governance analysis, knowledge synthesis, sustainability communication, and evidence-informed decision support.

Food and market systems
Seafood value chains, consumer decision-making, market access, non-tariff trade barriers, and product-service-to-market strategies.

Academic dissemination
Peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, policy reports, industry articles, online academic reflections, and conference contributions.

iCOSHELLs

Innovative Co-creation Soil Health Living Labs. Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role at RISE.

FERTITEC

FERTIliser product recovery from secondary raw materials using best available TEChniques. Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role at RISE.

CiNURGi

Core project on circular nutrient management in the Baltic Sea Region. Main applicant and Lead Coordinator role at RISE.

RJ Flexit

Combined SLF + UTAUT model for technology acceptance: ABB User Experience study. Principal Investigator.

Gothenburg in Asia – Asia in Gothenburg

Research project on cross-cultural and international business perspectives between Sweden and Asia.

Swedish Managers in Singapore

PhD research project: Swedish Managers in Singapore: A Discourse Analysis Study.

Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, NIBIO

• Research Scientist at NIBIO, Ås, Norway.
• Position commenced 28 April 2026.

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

• Lead Coordinator for EU project proposals on circular economy and nutrient recycling.
• Horizon project text deconstruction and project framework conceptualization.
• Qualitative research methodology refinement, co-creation processes, citizen engagement, and SSH components in EU grant proposals.
• Grant proposal writing, consortium building, budgeting support, project timeline design, deliverables planning, and manuscript review.
• Post-grant support including Grant Agreement Preparation, DESCA Consortium Agreement, Data Management Plan, ethics assessment, IPR, and project budgeting.

RISE Research Institutes of Sweden

• Lead Coordinator for EU project proposals.
• Successful EU project acquisitions: iCOSHELLs, FERTITEC, and CiNURGi.
• Responsibilities included consortium formation, work package structure, proposal writing, project management design, and EU project coordination.

Nofima AS, Tromsø, Norway

• Principal Investigator on non-tariff trade barriers to market access in emerging markets.
• Work-package lead coordinator in EU project proposals, including European Green Deal and H2020 calls.
• Deliverable lead scientist on blockchain applications in food traceability in the EU-China-Safe project.
• Contributing research scientist in AquaVitae, an EU H2020 project on sustainable aquaculture value chains in the Atlantic.
• Coordinated and managed consortia for national and regional project proposals.
• Investigated consumer choice behaviour and product-service-to-market strategies for the Norwegian seafood sector.

University of Gothenburg / ABB Corporate Research, Sweden

• Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Flexit programme Principal Investigator.
• Studied user-centric design of products and services across industrial contexts, including shipping, mining, robotics, smart grid, and healthcare.
• Designed research questions, analytical frameworks, corpora, interviews, text mining approaches, and keywords-in-context analysis.
• Coordinated university–industry field studies and reported to the RJ Flexit Board of Directors.

University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Formulated applied social-sciences perspectives for international business and economic-geography project proposals.
• Co-wrote research project proposals for national grants.
• Taught language-based qualitative research methodologies in the International Business and Trade MSc programme.
• Supervised five master’s thesis students, including two award-winning theses.

GU Holding / University of Gothenburg, Sweden

• Liaised between corporate HR directors and university faculty in planning leadership training programmes.
• Coordinated global leadership programme deliveries in China, Finland, Iceland, India, Poland, Sweden, and Singapore.
• Reviewed, evaluated, tailored, and budgeted leadership programmes for corporate clients.

Scholarly and professional outputs

• 24 peer-reviewed journal articles.
• 22 peer-reviewed conference papers and proceedings.
• 17 book chapters in edited volumes.
• 1 monograph: Gothenburg in Asia, Asia in Gothenburg.
• 3 reports and policy documents.
• 6 magazine articles.

Dissemination and peer review

• 137 online dissemination outputs, including academic reflections, policy analyses, popular-science companion pieces, and conference reports.
• 31 peer reviews completed.
• Review activity for IGI Global book chapters, International Journal of Gastronomy and Food Science, and Journal of Cleaner Production.
• Full publication list available via ORCiD.

Doctoral and postgraduate education

• 2002–2009 — PhD, General Linguistics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Doctoral thesis: Swedish Management in Singapore: A Discourse Analysis Study.
• 2015 — 10th PhD and Post-Doc Seminar and Conference: Global and Cross-Cultural Organizational Research, Maastricht University, Netherlands.
• 2011 — International Faculty Program, IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain.

Master’s education

• 1998–2001 — Master of Science, Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• 1998–2000 — Master of Arts, English Language, National University of Singapore, Singapore.