Awards, Grants & Research Support

Research Support and Funding

  • Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship — AUD $135,000 stipend and fee offset, 2023–2026.

  • Hallmark Research Initiative seed funding, University of Melbourne — AUD $15,000, 2025–2026. Co-recipient on a team project, led by Yulia Otmakhova, on automatic evaluation of mental health stigma in online communication.

  • Concept Creep research support, University of Melbourne — AUD ~$20,000 in-kind support, 2023–2025. Supported conference travel, research dissemination, and computational social science work connected to the Concept Creep research program, supervised by Nick Haslam.

  • Change is Key! research support, University of Gothenburg — AUD ~$6,500 in-kind support for research visit and collaboration, 2025.

  • RHD Career Development Support Scheme, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences — AUD $4,000, 2025.

  • Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Project 2026, MindShift: Meaning Change in Mental Health Terminology and Its Impact on Human–AI Interaction — advanced to Round 2, 2026. Team: Pierluigi Cassotti, Naomi Baes, Nick Haslam, Marco Antonio Stranisci.

Awards

  • Best Resource Paper Award, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2025. Team award for the BRIGHTER dataset.

  • Best Capstone Presentation Award, University of Melbourne, 2021.

  • First Class Honours, Graduate Diploma in Psychology (Advanced), University of Melbourne, 2021.

  • Advanced Psychological Theory & Practice Prize, University of Melbourne, 2020.

Leadership and Service

  • Program Chair / Program Committee, International Workshop on Computational Approaches to Language Change (LChange’26), co-located with EACL 2026.

  • Australian English Language Co-Lead, BLEnD SemEval-2026 Shared Task on Evaluating Cultural Awareness in Language Models, with Christine de Kock.

  • Program Committee, IC2S2 2026, *SEM 2025/2026, NLP4Democracy 2025, and ALTA 2025.

  • Conference reviewer, ACL Rolling Review, 2025–2026.

  • Journal reviewer, including Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy; Journal of Biosocial Science; Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science; PLOS Mental Health; and Journal of Medical Internet Research.