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Employment

2025–2029

Macquarie University Research Fellow

Macquarie University

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

Convenor of SPHL3300: Language as Evidence

2023–2025

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Macquarie University

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

Supervisor: Mike Proctor

2022

Associate Lecturer

University of Western Australia

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

2017–2021

PhD

University of Queensland

Thesis: A grammatical description of Warlmanpa

Supervisors: Felicity Meakins, Mary Laughren, and David Nash

2012–2016

BA (H1 Hons)

University of Western Australia

Double major in Linguistics & Management

Selected Experiences & Awards

2025–2029

Macquarie University Research Fellowship

Chief Investigator

Success rate: 10.3% | Funding amount: $518,000

2024

Early Career Researcher Enabling Scheme

Macquarie University

Panel's top ranked applicant | Funding amount: $3,000

2021

Dean's Award for Outstanding HDR Theses

University of Queensland

Success rate: <10%