Dr Stebbins has had a distinguished academic career as a lecturer, researcher and administrator. Among the subjects Dr Stebbins has taught for many years at the tertiary level are English Grammar and subjects on the Sociology of Language and on Bilingualism and Language Acquisition. Her online grammar learning tool Grammarpedia (www.languagetools.info/grammarpedia) was developed to support a blended learning approach to English Grammar and has been used in Tertiary courses on English grammar since 2008. Between 2010 and 2012 Dr Stebbins led the Centre for Research on Language Diversity (CRLD) at La Trobe University. CRLD, formerly known as the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, is one… of Australia's leading institutes for grammatical research and language documentation for little known minority languages. In March 2012, Dr Stebbins commenced a 12 month leave of absence from La Trobe University to establish Languagewise, a consultancy specialising in innovative strategies for language development, and to make a more direct contribution to the support of language development and language diversity in the community.