About Me

I recently graduated with my PhD in the Department of Psychology (Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences research cluster) at Western University, in London, ON, Canada. I was co-supervised by Ken McRae and Ryan A. Stevenson, and part of the Brain and Mind.

I completed my Master of Science degree in Psychology, also at Western, in 2020. My Honours Bachelor's degree in Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour was completed at McMaster University in Hamilton, ON. I grew up nearby in Ancaster, ON.

Most of my research has been focused on people’s knowledge and experience of meaningful patterns of behaviours in the world, called event knowledge. I am further interested in how event knowledge relates to traits associated with autism, particularly social communication skills, and how autistic and non-autistic individuals experience events.

My dissertation research was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada.

I am enthusiastic about writing in many forms (including literature reviews, research methodology writing, scientific summaries, technical writing, and editing). I'm also very interested in science communication, and making STEM fields more inclusive. In the past, I was Conference Co-Chair and Head of Media & Design for the graduate student-run Inspiring Diversity in STEM 2025 conference.