Employment

Macquarie University Research Fellow

Macquarie University (2025-2029)

Fellowship project: The birth of new Australian Aboriginal languages: the role of speaker identity in language genesis

Convenor of SPHL3300: Language as Evidence

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Macquarie University (2023-2025)

Project: DP220102925 The building blocks of language: Words in Central Australian languages
Supervisor: Mike Proctor

Associate Lecturer

University of Western Australia (2022)

Lecturer & coordinator of:
LING1001 Language and Communication
LING2002 The Sounds of the World's Languages
LING3003 Linguistics of Australian Indigenous Languages
LING4103 Methods in Linguistic Research

Education

PhD

University of Queensland (2017-2021)

A grammatical description of Warlmanpa

Supervisors: Felicity Meakins, Mary Laughren, and David Nash

BA (H1 Hons)

University of Western Australia (2012-2016)

Double major in Linguistics & Management

Selected Experiences & Awards

Macquarie University Research Fellowship

2025-2029

Chief Investigator

Success rate: x%

Funding amount: $518,000

Early Career Researcher Enabling Scheme

Macquarie University, 2024

Panel's top ranked applicant

Funding amount: $3,000

Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses

University of Queensland, 2021

Success rate: <10%