She is the founder/advisor of the South East Asia Research Centre for Communication and Humanities (SEARCH) and is the editor-in-chief of the centre’s journal. She also organises a biennial international conference for the centre. She teaches research methodology at the postgraduate degree level and also supervises theses. She is especially interested in research investigating the social factors that influence language use especially in minority communities. Her current research interests include the power of language as a social and political tool and identity issues when language is lost.