I recently completed my PhD at the University of Edinburgh (as a member of the Centre for Doctoral Training in NLP, supervised by Jennifer Culbertson and Hugh Rabagliati.) As of October 2026, I am a (junior) Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

I am interested in the interaction between language change and and neurodiversity. Specifically, I consider how we, as humans with our vast diversity in cognitive functioning, arrive at shared linguistic systems, and how individual differences may systematically impact those languages. I particularly focus on autistic language users (as an autistic researcher myself!), but have also considered the role of language users with ADHD. I am also interested in the sociolinguistics of neurodiversity and how neurodivergent people form their linguistic identities.

(The cat in the picture is my beloved cat Itsy, who passed away in 2019 whilst I was doing my Master’s degree.)