I began working at the University of Birmingham in January 2016. Prior to that, I was associate professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne (Australia) during 2011-2015, and Senior Research Fellow at the Deafness Cognition and Language (DCAL) Research Centre at University College London during 2006-2010. I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Newcastle and Macquarie University (both in Sydney, Australia) during 2003-2006. I worked as a lecturer at the Centre for Deaf Studies at the University of Bristol during 2000-2002 while completing my PhD.

I am interested in research investigating the signed languages of deaf communities. I am currently working on the European Research Council SignMorph project, looking at the relationship between the grammar of signed languages and iconicity, language age, and social structure in signing communities. I am working on an Australian Research Council Linkage Project with Louisa Willoughby (Monash University) and Melbourne Polytechnic investigating individual differences in second language learners of Auslan (the majority sign language in Australia), see https://www.monash.edu/arts/languages-literatures-cultures-linguistics/teaching-sign-languages). I am also continuing to work with colleagues Kearsy Cormier, Gabrielle Hodge, Neil Fox, and Heidi Proctor (University College London) on the BSL Syntax Project (https://bslcorpusproject.org/projects/bsl-syntax-project/).