She initiated and co-directed three online corpora of adolescent language: The Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT), Ungdomsspråk och språkkontakt i Norden (UNO), and Corpus Oral de Lenguaje Adolescente (COLA).
[3] Stenström's researched focused primarily on corpora studies, particularly regarding the speech of young people.
The book provides an in-depth look at the Corpus of London Teenage Language, or COLT, and its conclusions on current slang.
[5] In 2006, she published "Taboo words in teenage talk," which utilized two separate spontaneous conversation corpora out of London and Madrid.
[9] In 2020, she wrote a chapter for the book Voices Past and Present - Studies of Involved, Speech-related and Spoken Texts, "From yes to innit: Origin, development and general characteristics of pragmatic markers".