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I work as a lecturer, researcher, consultant and trainer both in academic and community settings. I am currently teaching in the Linguistics division at Ulster University and the Froebel Department of Primary and Early Childhood Education in Maynooth University, while working on other academic and creative projects. I am the founding director of Mother Tongues, a non for profit organisation that promotes multilingualism in Ireland.
My interest in language started during my studies in Studi Linguistici e Filologici at the University of Rome. I was keen to do research on bilingualism, so in 2004 I moved to Dublin where I completed an M.Phil in Applied Linguistics in Trinity College Dublin and an IRC funded PhD in Language Acquisition in Dublin City University. After working as an occasional lecturer in UCD and in DCU, I moved to the UK and from 2010 to 2015 I was Assistant Professor in Language Development and Bilingualism in the Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading. From 2015 to 2019 I worked in Trinity College Dublin as Assistant Professor in Clinical Speech and Language Studies. |
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