Hello :)
I’m an academic psychiatrist and philosopher affiliated with Birmingham University’s Institute for Mental Health and the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Youth Mental Health.
Alongside my research, I work in an NHS team in the UK providing early intervention for people experiencing psychosis.
Read my profile
in The Lancet
My PhD research (Priestley Scholarship) investigates the experience and meaning of delusions in psychosis from multiple perspectives, focusing on applications of phenomenology across psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, and linguistics.
I’m also interested in the therapeutic and ethical implications of phenomenological philosophy, including how phenomenology can help address stigma and epistemic injustice in mental healthcare. I was awarded the 2021 Wolfe Mays Essay Prize for an essay on this topic.
As a consultant psychiatrist and Principal Investigator in the NHS, I’m also involved in multi-centre clinical trials of psychological interventions in early psychosis across the UK.
PhD Supervisors: Prof. Matthew Broome, Prof. Lisa Bortolotti, Prof. Barnaby Nelson.
Co-supervisors: Dr. Clara Humpston (check out her beautiful lab page ‘Hallucination, Thought and Self in Schizophrenia’!), Prof. Jeannette Littlemore.
In this 90-second video, I tell you all about my research!
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