Research Projects

Two VRChat avatars, one with long bright pink hair and one with short black hair, looking up at a sky full of floating lanterns.

Screenshot from the 2022 documentary film, We Met in Virtual Reality.

Disability inclusion in social virtual reality

This project is the central focus of my PhD thesis; it attends to the inclusion of disabled people in social virtual reality (VR). I respond to how social VR has been ostensibly built for uniform, normative body-minds and turn to how people with disability are inhabiting and imagining social VR to envision actual ‘new worlds’ that embrace and desire difference. Informed by critical disability studies and participatory research with disabled people, this project will forward a praxis for how social VR can depart from reigning concepts of normality and platform a politics of meaningful inclusion.

A compact, pod-shaped grey vehicle stationary on the road, with its glass doors slid open. A row of seats are visible from the entrance.

An autonomous shuttle. Photo from NTU Singapore.

Disability, old age, and autonomous public transport in Singapore

This project was the central focus of my Master's thesis; it specifically responds to how people with disability and older adults are jointly figured as warrants for autonomous public transport (APT) development in Singapore. Through a discourse analysis of newspaper articles and online focus groups, I interrogate the location of disability and old age within Singapore's APT imaginary. I am working to publish three journal articles from this project.

A cyborg with shoulder-length pink hair, glowing red eyes, metal inserts on her face, and two cybernetic hands—with red sparks emitting from the right hand.

A technologically augmented character from Cyberpunk 2077.

Cyborgs and disability in video games

Emerging from my personal interest in video games, this project critically examines representations of the popular cyborg figure in Cyberpunk 2077 and Citizen Sleeper, both video games with worlds deeply enmeshed with technological augmentation. Through the lens of crip cyborg theory, I interrogate how these in-game cyborgs depict and imagine disability. I presented an early iteration of my findings at the 2024 International Communication Association (ICA) conference.

Three people wearing casual clothing, smiling while walking along a street, toward the camera.

Photo from WSU.

Foundations for Belonging: Settlement and integration of refugees with disabilities

I am a research assistant on Foundations for Belonging 2024, a research collaboration between Western Sydney University and Settlement Services International exploring refugees with disabilities’ sense of welcome and belonging in Australia. You can read more about earlier iterations of the Foundations for Belonging project by clicking here.

A cartoon depiction of people with a range of disability, including mobility aid users, white cane users, and sign language users.

Photo from the Ministry of Social and Family Development.

Disability Digital Inclusion in Singapore

I am a research assistant on Inclusion by Design, a research project led from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Currently, we are exploring disabled people's experiences with digital spaces and technologies in Singapore.

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