I completed my PhD within UWA's School of Psychological Science in 2018. My PhD examined the role of cognitive processing in body image and eating disturbances. After completing my PhD, I continued to build expertise in this unique line of research in the role of Research Fellow at UWA (2019-2023). During this role, I also lectured and coordinated undergraduate courses and supervised research students.

In 2024, I commenced as Research Manager at the WA Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) and I maintain an adjunct position at UWA.

My current research focuses on child and adolescent mental health. 

I still hold an interest and collaborate on projects examining the role of cognitive processes, such as biases in the processing of food and appearance-related information, in body image and eating disturbances. 

2022: UWA Research Collaboration Award - $10,000
"A lived experience informed approach to illuminating the cognitive basis of anorexia nervosa" with Andrea Phillipou (Swinburne University of Technology), Stephanie Miles (Swinburne University of Technology), Nienke Jonker (University of Groningen)

2019: Raine Medical Research Foundation Cockell Collaboration Award - $18,520
"Efficacy of novel self-appraisal induction in Body Dysmorphic Disorder" with Prof Ulrike Buhlmann, University of Münster, Germany