AOS

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Phenomenology

AOC

Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Feminist Philosophy

Publications

Peer-reviewed:

“Prescriptive ‘selves’ and Self-Illness Ambiguity”, Synthese 206, 64 DOI:10.1007/s11229-025-05147-8 (2025)

“Psychiatry as Mind-shaping”, Erkenntnis, DOI: 10.1007/s10670-024-00908-2 (2024)

“Problems for enactive psychiatry as a practical framework”, Philosophical Psychology, DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2023.2174423 (2023)

“Stuck on repeat: Why do we continue to ruminate?”, Synthese 199, 13143–13162 (2021)

Open-Peer Commentaries:

“Enactivism as Utopian Science”, Constructivist Foundations, 19(1): 22–24. https://constructivist.info/19/1/022 (2023)

Works in Progress

“The Language of Mental Disorder” (prepared for submission)

“Roleplaying, playfulness and mental health”, in preparation for special issue Philosophy through art, games, and fiction at Philosophical Psychology

“Methodological Reflections on the Incorporation of Lived Experience Phenomenological Psychopathology”, in preparation with Lucienne Spencer and Matthew Broome for special issue Empirical Methods in Phenomenological Psychopathology in Psychopathology

“Defiant Jazz: What Helly R Can Teach Us About Subverting Gender Norms”, in preparation with Ruby Hake

Teaching Experience

Research Fellow, University of Birmingham, 2024- present

• Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health and Wellbeing

• Philosophy and Mental Health

Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh, 2023 – 2024

• CogLab
• Phenomenology

Tutor in Philosophy, University of Edinburgh, 2020 – 2024

• Philosophy of Science 1
• Mind, Matter and Language
• Logic
• Knowledge and Reality

Skills Centre Tutor, University of Edinburgh, 2020 – 2024

Research Experience

Research Fellow, Project EPIC, University of Birmingham, 2024-present

Research Assistant, Rutgers University, 2024

PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh, 2019-2023

Research Assistant, University of Edinburgh, 2020

Research Assistant, “Xenotransplantation and human attitudes towards animals” project, University of Exeter, 2017