Laura Nimmon is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia, Department of Language and Literacy Education. Contact: nimmon@interchange.ubc.ca

Her research interest are in health literacy, literacy as social practice, socio-cultural theory, theories of space time, identity, social network analysis, discourse analysis, and international development. She works in mixed methods - including qualitative analysis of ethnographic data - and mathematical analysis of social systems.

Migration, Marginalization and Meaning-Making: Insights from the Cultural Practices of Literacy Study. Purcell-Gates, V., Nimmon, L. & Perry, K. Mobility Language Literacy Conference, 2011, Cape Town, South Africa.

Narrative Self Construction Through Timescapes. Nimmon, L. International Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference, 2010, Vancouver, BC.

Health Literacy as Social Practice: A Theoretical Perspective. Nimmon, L. National Reading Conference, 2009, New Mexico.

Laura is a researcher for The Cultural Practices of Literacy Study, and for the Centre for Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluation with the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute.

Language Competence: English (L1), French (advanced proficiency), Italian (intermediate proficiency), Spanish (intermediate proficiency), Arabic (beginner).