Emily Armstrong is a researcher in the field of intercultural communication and a PhD candidate in the College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society. Emily is a speech pathologist with diverse experience across a wide range of health, education and disability services. She has contributed to program development and implementation in a range of intercultural contexts – for example the first speech therapy training programs in Viet Nam and Bangladesh and School Based Aboriginal Trainee programs in Allied Health Assistance (TAFE NSW).

Emily works collaboratively and interculturally with Yolŋu (Aboriginal) researchers in North-East Arnhem Land. Emily's PhD research explores the perspectives of Yolŋu families and early childhood service providers (e.g. health providers, educators) about the ways they communicate during Yolŋu children’s assessments. Research outputs include co-created, accessible resources in Yolŋu languages and English. A working title for the project is Waŋanhamirr ga ḻarrum maḻŋ’maram rrambaŋi nhaltjan ga yothu ŋuthan - Talking together to find out about how a child is growing up.