I am a Postgraduate Researcher at DCAL on the Deaf Individual and the Community strand. I will be undertaking research into sign language in the everyday lives of Deaf people. Examples of my research will include: Deaf people who are bilingual in two sign languages, Deaf people who work as interpreters or translators in the Deaf Community and other sociolinguistic research into sign languages.

Prior to my current role, I was a Postgraduate Researcher with the Sign Segmentation Project, based at City University. The project focussed on how Deaf people when they sign or watch signing are able to understand meanings through picking out signs from a continuous sign stream. This will help us to understand how people learn sign language. This information will be useful in the future for developing resources and materials for teaching, language assessment. Click here  for more information.

I am a PhD student undertaking research into language contact between different dialects of two sign languages: British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language. Professor Bencie Woll and Professor Gabriella Vigliocco are my supervisors.