I am broadly interested in the social and cultural factors that shape children's learning. I examine how lived experience and cultural upbringing influence what children learn to think and value. In particular, I focus on children's moral development and moral decision-making, their problem-solving, and their attitudes and concern towards other animals & the environment.

I use mixed-methods from psychology and anthropology to answer these research questions, including experiments, interviews and observations. I strive to create culturally-fair tools that embed research within the cultural context, and value co-design processes when working with research participants and communities.

My PhD looked at children's problem-solving and innovation across 3 diverse cultures. My postdoctoral work contributed to a large-scale cross-cultural project examining how cultural and socialisation processes might impact human-animal relations in context. I am interested in collaborating on projects that work with adults or children on topics of moral concern, nature connection, problem-solving and social learning.

I joined UWA as a Forrest Research Fellow in late 2023. I held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany from 2020-2023. I conducted my PhD at the School of Psychological Science at the University of Queensland (2015-2020). As part of my PhD, I spent a year at the University of Texas at Austin as part of the Australian-American Fulbright Commissions knowledge exchange program.