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Emer was a Post-Doc who worked on the KETI project with Professor Justine Cassell at Inria, Paris. In that context, she participated in developing a novel theory of “interpersonality” – how personality traits of different interlocutors affect conversational progress and vice-vers, the impact of different conversational processes on assessments of personality. Emer’s Ph.D., pursued at Trinity College Dublin under the supervision of Profs Nick Campbell and Carl Vogel, focused on multiparty casual conversation, particularly in terms of timing of speech, silence, and overlap in chat and chunk phases. Prior to her return to academia as a mature student, Emer worked in the design, coordination, and provision of language and integration training to refugees in Ireland, as part of IILT, a campus company of Trinity College Dublin. She carries on this work through her side project, ListenHere (https://listenhere.ie), a non-profit providing free online resources for migrants.