I am a Speech-Language Pathologist and PhD candidate at the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy at ACU, and assistant editor for the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.

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My PhD studies focus on the writing process, more specifically the role of the topic sentence in the expository writing of secondary students. Over the last few years, I have also been working on a collection of essays that explain communicative and linguistic phenomenon with the aid of true crime, called Body of Communication.

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Currently, I am a Visiting Fellow at the State Library of NSW investigating a corpus of high school essays to identify links between topic sentence use and writing quality. As part of my fellowship, I will also explore historical adolescent writing. I’m interested in what teenagers in the past were writing about, what mattered to them, and how they wrote. 

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