I am a Belgian-Australian linguist. My research is interdisciplinary and mostly uses Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Appraisal theory to study different types of communication in digital and other contexts. My main objective is to showcase the theory’s versatility and the potential for social semiotics to provide in-depth computer-assisted descriptions and qualitative interpretations of language use in complex socio-cultural settings by adopting a mixed methods approach. My work tends to focus on disparities based on race, disability status or other in society and seeks to encourage critical thinking, creating social change.

After working as a literacy development trainer in New Caledonia for several years, I have been teaching and coordinating Academic Communication, English (literacy), Discourse Analysis, Systemic Functional Grammar and other courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Academic Qualifications

Linguistics, PhD, 'Power and Ideology in the New Caledonian Independence Debate: A Pragma-functional Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis' [PhD Thesis Awarded with No Corrections], Macquarie University

2015 → 2019

Award Date: 16 April 2019

International Studies, Master of Research, 'Common Destiny? A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Independence Debate between France and New Caledonia' [High Distinction], Macquarie University

2014 → 2015

Award Date: 8 April 2015

International Studies, Bachelor of Arts (French/Modern History), Macquarie University

2011 → 2013

Award Date: 5 March 2013

• Appraisal theory
• Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CADS)
• Corpus Linguistics
• Computational Linguistics
• (Digital) health and other communication
• Higher education
• Semantics
• Culture
• Multimodality