I am a Junior Research Fellow in Linguistics at Newnham College, Cambridge and an Associate Lecturer in German at the Open University. I was previously a tutor, lecturer, postdoc researcher and outreach officer in Linguistics at the University of Oxford and a postdoc at the University of Reading on the ‘Progression in Primary Languages’ project. I am interested in multilingualism and discourse markers in Mauritian Creole-speaking and Telugu-speaking communities. For my PhD I studied the development of Mauritian Creole’s tense, mood and aspect (TMA) system.