I am a Tutor, Lecturer and Outreach Officer in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, a researcher at the University of Reading and an Associate Lecturer in German at the Open University. I am currently collecting and analysing data from young language learners on the ‘Progression in Primary Languages’ project. I have previously investigated multilingualism 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 and my recent postdoc project explored discourse markers in Mauritian Creole.