I am Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. I teach undergraduate and graduate courses in subjects such as Sociolinguistics and Language Learning, Intercultural Communication and Language and Identity. I am currently involved in a collaborative research project with Professor Paola Escudero (Western Sydney University) investigating home language use in multilingual families in Australia. I earned my PhD in Sociolinguistics from University College Dublin in 2016.