I'm a lecturer in linguistics in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney, and a speech researcher at the Marcs Institute, investigating speech production and perception, and phonological organization in human language.

My research focuses on the phonetic properties of 'patterns of sounds', with a special interest in phonological classes which have proven difficult to describe:  liquid  and  fricative  consonants.

In the Speech and Language group at MARCS, we use ultrasound, EMA, and other technologies to investigate speech production, speech perception, and related skills such as literacy, in adults, children and second language learners, with a special interest in indigenous and other languages of NSW and Australia.

In the Speech Production and Articulation kNowledge group at USC, we use real-time Magnetic Resonance Imaging and other technologies to investigate the dynamics of speech production -- how the vocal tract is shaped over time -- to inform our knowledge of phonological structure and its cognitive representation.