Mathew (Mat) Cieśla received his BA (cum laude) in psycholinguistics with a minor in German language and philology from New College at the University of Alabama. In 2022, he was awarded the Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at Adam Mickiewicz University, in Poznań, Poland. Presently, Mathew holds a position at Northumbria University, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK as as a postgraduate researcher and demonstrator in the Department of Psychology. His Ph.D. work involving dialect density and the effects of dialect on primary language processing is supervised by Dr. Glenn Williams and co-supervised by Dr. Hazel Blythe and Dr. Vera Kempe.