In 2021-2022, I worked on a Marsden-funded project at the University of Canterbury. In collaboration with the project team, I drew on ethnomethodology-informed narrative analysis and novel corpus linguistics methods to understand (1) how narrative structure crystallises over time and (2) how a diverse range of people process the experience of the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes through telling their stories.

In 2017-2020, as part of my PhD at the University of Melbourne, I collected recordings of casual conversations from a group of lesbian Chinese women and their friends. Drawing on conversation analysis and Foucauldian discourse analysis, I identified interactional techniques the women utilised to both reproduce and resist the categorising (and often oppressive) mechanisms of racism and heterosexism. This work contributes to our understanding of how (oppressive) social norms operate at the micro level and what we can do to alter these norms at the level of everyday talk.