About

I have formal training in psychology, including a PhD in Psychological Sciences, and I currently work as an academic in higher education in Australia. Earlier in my career, I worked in organisational psychology and technology development — experiences that still inform how I approach learning, systems, and human agency today.

My work sits at the intersection of psychology, learning sciences, and educational technology. I am interested in how people learn over time — how they regulate their effort, emotions, and decisions, and how learning unfolds across contexts.

Learning as a relational process

Although much of my research has been conducted in formal educational settings, my thinking has increasingly been shaped by the recognition that learning is deeply relational.

Regulation does not happen in isolation. It is often co-constructed through interaction with:

  • other people
  • tools and technologies
  • tasks and expectations
  • the conditions of everyday life

This perspective has informed my interest in distributed and networked views of learning, where agency, judgment, and meaning emerge through interaction rather than instruction alone.

Technology, AI, and what should remain human

A central thread in my work is the ethical and psychological question of what should remain human when learning with technology, particularly as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more present in educational and everyday contexts.

Rather than focusing on efficiency or automation, I am interested in how technologies can support learning without displacing:

  • effort needed for learning to happen
  • emotional regulation
  • evaluative judgment
  • responsibility and agency

I approach AI as a conditional resource — useful in some moments, limited in others, and always embedded within broader human systems.

This stance draws directly on my research, but also on reflective experiences of learning beyond institutions, including shared creative projects with my children. These experiences have not redirected my work; they have made visible the same regulatory processes I study academically, now unfolding in different contexts.