She is also associate director (student diversity) of the National Centre of Science, Information and Communication Technology and Mathematics Education in Rural and Regional Australia (SiMERR) and a graduate of Simon Fraser University. Her interests focus on sustainable learning — ways to improve basic academic skills in literacy and numeracy for middle-school students and adults. She is a Fellow of the International Association for Research in Learning Disabilities and co-developer of the QuickSmart Literacy and Numeracy Programs (http://www.une.edu.au/simerr/quicksmart) which are implemented in primary and high schools across Australia.