Jolanta’s research interests include corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, contrastive semantics and pragmatics, discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary and cross-generic analysis of academic discourse, EAP, ESP, research publication and reviewing practices, research evaluation, disciplinary cultures, academic identity and academic career aspects, national and international scientific policies.

Jolanta has conducted a number of studies into Lithuanian and English academic discourse employing both large synchronic corpora such as COCA, CorALit, and self-compiled comparable corpora (see Publications). Jolanta regularly presents her research in national and international conferences, conducts effective scientific writing seminars for students and researchers in Lithuania and abroad. She has been involved in a number of research projects focusing on author stance, methodology for the linguistic annotation, aspects of modality and evidentiality,  discourse marking as well as in international COST networking Actions CA 15221 (Advancing effective institutional models towards cohesive teaching, learning, research and writing development) and CA 15137 (European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities) (see Projects).

As a member of the Humanities and Social sciences committee at the Research Council of Lithuania and the national representative of Lithuania in Research and innovation framework program Horizon Europe, Cluster 2 (Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society), Jolanta is closely following national and international scientific policies and agendas.