I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Nottingham, UK.  I'm working on a large-scale cross-institution project called Epistemic Injustice and Healthcare (Wellcome, PI Havi Carel). The Nottigham team is me, Ian Kidd and Alice Monypenny.

My research spans a few different areas of philosophy, such as the philosophy of psychiatry and medicine, phenomenology, emotion, and social epistemology. I am interested in the affective, existential and phenomenological dimensions of a range of anomalous phenomena, and I tend to focus on the embodied nature of emotional experiences. 




Examples of some of my research interests:

• Illness and Functional Neurological Disorder (primarily functional seizures and tics), post-viral fatigue and related conditions (Fibromyalgia, Long Covid, CFS)
• Grief and loss, and the phenomenology of non-death losses
• Autobiographical self-narratives and their socially distributed construction
• Trauma, trust and and acculturation stress 

I sometimes analyse these dynamics through the theoretical lenses of both epistemic (knowledge-related) and affective (emotion-related) injustice. 

​I received my PhD in 2022 from the University of York, UK, where I was also part of the AHRC-funded project Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience, in both cases under the supervision of Matthew Ratcliffe.  My thesis was the first dedicated philosophical study of CFS/ME. Before coming to Nottingham, I spent 18 months at Linköping University, Sweden, where I worked on a large-scale interdisciplinary project on Long Covid, and then a year at the University of Birmingham, UK, where I worked between the Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Philosophy, in part on Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology (Wellcome, PI Matthew Broome).

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