Previously, he worked as a research associate at the Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre, University College London from 2009-2014 on the British Sign Language Corpus Project. He was also a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow within the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago (2014-16) and a Fulbright Scholar within the Department of Linguistics at Gallaudet University (2011-12). His research interests cover several areas within sign language linguistics with a focus on sociolinguistics as well as its use in applied linguistics contexts such as sign language teaching.