I am the Applied Linguistics Director of Student Experience and Progression since 2022. In my DseP capacity,  I coordinate activities that enhance student participation and experience, striving to offer the best learning environment to our student cohorts. Simultaneously, I try to identify the best ways to enhance student voice and participation, ensuring that students' learning and teaching expectations align with their experiences.  

In terms of research, my heart still lies with syntax and the syntax-semantics interface. After completing my Syntax PhD (University of York) sponsored by the ESRC, I worked for almost two decades at the University of Roehampton developing a diverse teaching portfolio and a research profile that primarily explored the notion of subjecthood from a variety of perspectives.

I am the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Applied Linguistics at Warwick, and have been leading these courses since September 2025. As researcher, my academic interests primarily focus on the development of cognitive linguistic frameworks to critical and literary discourse analysis, Most recently including emerging discourses about - and produced by - artificial intelligence. As an eductator, I bring these skills to bear in guiding students through research design training, and providing instruction in sociolinguistics and the role of language in politics and critical thinking.

As a Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy (WIHEA), I co-lead a working group to develop resources for supporting student understanding and engagement with best practice for academic conduct in the use of artificial intelligence in academic writing. Alongside department-level projects and my previous role as Head of Academic Integrity for Applied Linguistics, this feeds into my growing interest in the role and nature of AI-use in student academic writing.

Before joining Warwick in 2021, I held various teaching and lectureship posts at Sheffield, Liverpool, and De Montfort University. My PhD research, which I completed at the University of Sheffield in 2018, was generously funded by the Wolfson Foundation