My research explores the relationship between communication and decision-making, which I have previously studied in the context of public health, product safety, and macroeconomics. My current research is using experimental methods to study the effect of accent bias on audio deepfake detection and how explanation types impact appropriate reliance on AI.

February 2025 - Present

Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics

October 2023 - July 2024

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Forensic Linguistics

September 2022 - October 2023, Kamwell Ltd

Head of Insights and Innovations

September 2021 - September 2022, Office for Product Safety and Standards (secondment from Queen Mary University of London)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sociolinguistics

January 2021 - April 2021, Queen Mary University of London

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Linguistics and Psychology

October 2019 - September 2020, Queen Mary University of London

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Linguistics

January 2019 - July 2019, Queen Mary University of London

Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Psychology

My projects at Aston included:

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (PGRA)
A collaborative project with Dr. Sarah Atkins looking at effective communication in patient outreach and referral letters. I examined two sets of patient letters analysing the complexity of the language (set 1), and the opportunities to communicate trust with patients (set 2).

'For the Record': A pilot study applying linguistics to improve evidential consistency in police investigative interview records (PGRA) A project led by Dr. Kate Haworth with co-Is Dr Emma Richardson, Dr Felicity Deamer and Dr James Tompkinson, and funded via Research England's 'Expanding Excellence in England' (E3) Fund. I analysed the deliberate metaphors used by police interviewers and transcribers to describe the process of reading out police-suspect interviews in court.