Gesture, emoji, multi-modality, Tibeto-Burman languages, evidentiality, interaction, data management, lingcomm (communicating linguistics)

A select list of competitive funding

Endangered Languages Documentation Project (ELDP) Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship (2015-2017) - £91,815 (GBP)

Two years of researcher salary and fieldwork costs for documentation of Kagate.

Title “Documenting and describing Kagate, an endangered Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal.”

NTU Tier 1 Grant (2014-2015) - $30,000 (SGD)

Co-Investigator with Joan Kelly from NTU School of Art, Design and Media. Partner Investigator Asst. Prof. Suzy Styles (Department of Psychology, NTU).
Title “The development of Artistic and Participatory Means of Recording, Writing and Transmitting the Stories and Knowledge of Kagate, an Endangered Language of Nepal.” 

Firebird Foundation Grant (2016) $8304 (USD)

Co-Investigator with Austin Lord (PhD Candidate, Cornell). Documentation of Langtang.

Firebird Foundation Grant (2013) $5350 (USD)

Funded January 2014 fieldtrip to document traditional Kagate narratives.

Awesome Foundation Grant (2012) $1000 (USD)

Funded a computer for Kagate speakers to use in the production of a Kagate dictionary.

Awards

2021 Boyer Prize Australian Journal of International Affairs, Alex Davis, Ruth Gamble, Gerald Roche, Lauren Gawne

2018 La Trobe University Early Career Researcher Award

2014 Talkley award - Australian Linguistics Society’s annual Talkley award for promoting linguistics in the public sphere with Georgia Webster for our work on Superlinguo.