PhD in Natural Language Processing, 2026
University of Edinburgh
BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Linguistics (PPL), 2019
St Hugh's College, University of Oxford
My research area is in child semantic and pragmatic acquisition, and how we might model this computationally. In particular, I am very interested in lexical acquisition and discourse structures, as well as expanding my work to look at cross-cultural and cross-lingual data.
I am originally from Fife in Scotland. In 2019, I moved down to Oxford to pursue my BA in Psychology and Linguistics at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. My undergraduate Psychology research project examined potential sources of cross-cultural variation in logical reasoning. I began my PhD in 2022, supervised by Hugh Rabagliati and Neil Bramley.
My PhD is funded by the Natural Language Processing Centre for Doctoral Training.