Ylva Olausson is now teaching Swedish at SIFA (Stockholm Intensive Swedish for Academics). She has previously been a Swedish teaching fellow in the Scandinavian Studies Department at the University of Edinburgh. She also taught in various posts in Finland, Spain, Sweden and South Korea. She is certified as a teacher of Swedish as a Second Language, English and Spanish by the Swedish National Education Agency. She is the author of a number of coursebooks from the Swedish publishers Studentlitteratur and Folkuniversitetets forlag.