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, as well as how different groups of people talk about them.
Examples of my research topics are:
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) and other chronic fatigue conditions like Fibromyalgia and Long Covid
- Functional Neurological Disorders (especially psychogenic seizures), endocrine and gut disorders, Tourette's syndrome
- Grief and loss
- Trauma, psychosis and migration
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 in Linköping University, Sweden, where I worked on a large-scale interdisciplinary project on Long Covid.