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Providing opportunities for under-privileged people to obtain quality education. Improving the quality of teaching in Higher Education. Helping people learn, understand, and value the animals that we have evolved to serve us in so many ways - as companions, food, and entertainment. I love words! So qualitative research is wonderful because it gives me a chance to write eloquently while still doing work grounded in theory and science.

traveling and hiking.

I love transmitting, teaching, translating. I love practising yoga, and singing and dancing. I love cooking, and love it better when it's for someone else. I love reading and being in nature and working on the garden. And I love surprises and a good laugh!

I'm passionate about learning new languages. I am currently learning Spanish, French, Arabic and Mandarin. I love learning new languages and understanding more about different cultures. I hope to one day make a remarkable impact in language accesibility.

Linguistics (especially semantics and historical-comparative), cooking, literature (sci-fi, theory and fiction) – both reading and writing, long distance running/cycling, yoga, science and medical science, analytical psychology (Jungian, MBTI), winter swimming;