I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, where I work between the Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Philosophy. I work on two research projects: Renewing Phenomenological Psychopathology (PI Matthew Broome) and Epistemic Injustice and Healthcare (PI Havi Carel). 

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. 

I am particularly interested in situated accounts of emotion. For instance, I look at how and why emotional experience and expression can be more or less well-received by others in various contexts, and how this shapes emotional experience itself. I sometimes analyse these dynamics through the theoretical lenses of both epistemic (knowledge-related) and affective (emotion-related) injustice. 

Examples of the experiences I am interested in are:

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) and other chronic fatigue conditions like Fibromyalgia and Long Covid
• Functional Neurological Disorders (seizures, tics)
• Grief and loss 
• Trauma, psychosis and acculturation

​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 Professor Matthew Ratcliffe.  My thesis was the first dedicated philosophical study of CFS/ME. I then spent 18 months at Linköping University, Sweden, where I worked on a large-scale interdisciplinary project on Long Covid. 

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