Dr. Chand studied cognitive science as an undergraduate and linguistics at the graduate level. Before coming to Essex, she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the University of California at Davis Department of Neurology Alzheimer's Disease Center examining how language changes relate to aging and the onset and progression of Alzheimer's Disease. Her doctoral thesis (2009) explored language ideologies and structural variation and change in the Indian English spoken by Hindi/English bilinguals in New Delhi, India. She is currently a lecturer in sociolinguistics at the University of Essex, UK. While at Essex, her research has expanded to also address local East Anglian English variation and the social meaning of local variables, and to explore Indian language shift and mixed code development from the quantitative modeling perspective. Her publications include research in Language in Society, the Journal of Sociolinguistics, English World-Wide, Current Protocols in Neuroscience, the Journal of Gerontology, linguistics, English World-Wide, Current Protocols in Neuroscience, the Journal of Gerontology, and Physica A.