Laura is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of New England, Australia. From 2019 to 2024, she was a Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the 2022 winner of the Max Crawford Medal from the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Australia’s most prestigious award for achievement and promise in the humanities. She is co-founder and co-convenor of the Law and Linguistics Interdisciplinary Researchers Network. Laura’s current project explores communication between migration lawyers and their clients, and how law, policy, and educational experiences help to shape their beliefs and practices. Prior to that, her doctoral research, with supervision in both linguistics and law, focused on credibility in Australian refugee visa decision making and in public discourse on refugees. Laura is admitted as a lawyer in NSW and has also conducted fieldwork with refugees across four continents, focusing on the human rights of refugees with disabilities. She loves learning new languages and speaking about anything language or communication related.
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