I’m a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh working with Sarah MacPherson. You can read about my project GRASP: Greater Awareness of Social Pragmatics in Ageing below.

Prior to this, I was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (examining multimodal communication in interactive settings using portable eye-tracking with Paula Rubio-Fernández and Aslı Özyürek) and a postdoc at the University of Oslo (exploring referential communication across the lifespan, across clinical and non-clinical populations, and cross-linguistically with Paula Rubio-Fernández and Hannah Rohde).

EDUCATION

2015-2018 PhD in Linguistics and English Language, University of Edinburgh

Thesis: The Lifelong Interplay Between Language and Cognition: From Language Learning to Perspective-Taking, New Insights into the Ageing Mind

2013-2014 MSc in Developmental Linguistics, University of Edinburgh

Dissertation: Attention, Executive Function, and Age: Can Older Second Language Learners Experience Language-Related Cognitive Change? (Distinction)

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2023-ongoing Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow

GRASP: Greater awareness of social pragmatics in ageing (awarded grant from the European Commission, funded by the UKRI Horizon guarantee scheme)

2018-2019 Postdoctoral Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh

Saying Enough Without Saying Too Much: Linguistic and Cognitive Factors in Effective Referential Communication funded by the Research Council of Norway(PI: Paula Rubio-Fernandez, Co-I: Hannah Rohde)

2017-2018 Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh

Cognitive, Motivational, and Demographic Correlates of Progress Test Proficiency Scores funded by Pearson Education(PIs: Antonella Sorace, Thomas Bak)

2016-2017 Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh

Universal Health Visiting Pathway: Promoting Knowledge of Language Development funded by the University of Edinburgh(PI: Vicky Chondrogianni)

My research programme, lifespan pragmatics, addresses questions at the intersection of experimental pragmatics and cognitive ageing. The aim is to uncover the factors (cognitive, linguistic and social) underlying pragmatic competence (e.g., our ability to read between the lines in conversation and adapt speech in partner-specific ways) at different stages of development.