I am experimental psychologist by training, and my work incorporates basic and applied research with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) populations. My work in health communication with national and international research partners focuses on understanding how the growing CALD population in Australia and elsewhere can be best supported when communicating with health practitioners and healthcare providers by understanding, and striving towards overcoming, the linguistic and cultural barriers to accessing services and to receiving equitable care/treatment. The outcomes of this work are highly relevant and applicable to other organisational settings. I uses experimental (laboratory-based and quantitative) as well as qualitative approaches and mixed-method designs to understand how multilingual/cultural individuals and communities function, and engage and interact with each other with the aim to support optimal outcomes for these communities, also by informing best communication practice for professionals. I am actively engaged in promoting a shift in focus in research that is inclusive of CALD individuals and, more importantly, recognises that to fully understand how language works it is vital to consider bilingual and multilingual individuals as critical to that endeavour, rather than exceptions.

Research interests

1. Bilingual and multilingual language processing
2. Health communication
3. Vigilance and attentional control
4. Psycholinguistics
5. Experimental psychology