About
My research addresses the colonial cisheteropatriarchal norms embedded in and reproduced through the analytical tools used in corpus linguistics and digital humanities.
My Leverhulme Trust-funded interdisciplinary PhD project, Queer Data and Resilience, sits across Languages, Cultures and Linguistics and Digital Humanities, examining the limitations of existing semantic annotation systems when analysing texts that discuss queer/LGBTQ+ lives and themes, and exploring approaches to building a queer-first, community-led alternative.
I served as the Research Fellow on the ESRC-funded project, Queer AI for the Ally, building a prototype RAG-based, queer-first AI chatbot to reduce the emotional labour of LGBTQ+ individuals in educating their friends and family in effective allyship.
I hold master's degrees in Gender Studies (Linköping University, Sweden), Multimedia Journalism (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK) and International Relations and Middle East Studies (University of St Andrews, UK). Prior to returning to academia, I worked for 15 years in international nonprofit communications, including as the Director of Communications at Salzburg Global, Austria and Senior Communications Consultant at Gender at Work, Canada.