[My full CV can be downloaded here. Key points are summarised below:]
Employment
Present Assistant Professor in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics.
2023-2025 Lecturer in PPE and PPE Programme Lead, Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield.
2020-2023 Fellow in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics.
2019-20 Research Assistant, Invisible Labour Project, University of Cambridge.
Education
2013 – 2019 PhD in Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
Supervisor: Rae Langton. Examiners: Sophia Connell and Katherine Puddifoot. Passed 05/06/2019, awarded 26/10/2019. (NB: time to complete PhD includes long health-related time away from study.) You can read my dissertation, ‘Salience Perspectives’, here.
2012 – 2013 MPhil in Philosophy, University of Cambridge.
Degree mark: Distinction. Primary area of research: Philosophy of sex/gender. Other research areas: aesthetics, social metaphysics.
2008 – 2011 BA in Philosophy, University of Nottingham.
Degree mark: First Class Honours (average mark: 76).
External Funding, Awards and Certificates
2024 Certificate for successful application to become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
2024 ‘The Ethics of Attention Summer School’, Central European University (held in Budapest, 1-5 July 2024). Funded by OSUN (Open Society University Network) and IHS (Institute for Humane Studies). Co-organised with Dr. Georgi Gardiner and Dr. Cathy Mason, and in part co-delivered with Dr. Mason) . Teachers for this event included Prof Wayne Wu, Prof Samantha Wynne Vice, Dr. Jessie Munton and Dr. Tatyana Kostochka.
2022 Excellence in Education award, in recognition of work done to enhance education and the student experience at the LSE.
2013 – 2018 Full Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) scholarship for the PhD.
2012 – 2013 Full AHRC scholarship for the MPhil.
2010 Jim Lees Prize in Philosophy for the best overall second year undergraduate philosophy performance at the University of Nottingham. Also attained the best overall mark for third year undergraduate philosophy at the University of Nottingham.
Publications
(For more info, including other papers under review, see research).
2024, ‘Order-Based Salience Patterns in Language: What They Are and Why They Matter‘, Ergo, 11(26): 689-715.
2024, ‘Attentional Discrimination and Victim Testimony‘ Philosophical Psychology, 37(6): 1407-1431. Special Issue on ‘Understanding Bias: Methods for Understanding Unintentional Discrimination’.
2023 ‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property‘, Ethics, 133(4): 497-528.
2022 ‘Harmful Salience Perspectives’. In S. Archer, ed., Salience: A Philosophical Inquiry, Routledge.
2022 ‘Clocking Invisible Labour in Academia: The Politics of Working with Time’. In K. Facer, J. Seibers, & B. Smith, eds., Working with Time in Qualitative Research, Routledge. Co-authored with Paulina Sliwa, Arathi Sriprakash, Tyler Denmead.
Book Reviews
2015 [Book review] Tabery, J. ‘Beyond Versus: The Struggle to Understand the Interaction of Nature and Nurture’. International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 29(3), 347-50.
Blogs and Public-Facing Writing
2024 [Blog post] “I’m first look at me“. 28 December, Ergo blog.
2024 [Blog post] “Making Womanness Striking: Salience-based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives“. 21 August, Blog of the APA.
2023 [Blog post] “A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Relative Attentional Surplus on the Wrong Property“. 30 June, New Work in Philosophy Substack, reposted 3 July, LSE Philosophy blog.
2022 [Blog post] ‘The Devil’s in the Framing: Language and Bias’. 8 Feb, LSE Philosophy Blog, and reposted 4 March, LSE Impact of the Social Sciences blog.
2017 [Magazine article] ‘“Framing Effects” and Their Impact on our Perceptions of Gender’. 20 Feb, Gendered Voices, 1, 26-7.
Selected Talks
(For more info, see talks).
2024-2026 (Invited): 2025 talk: ‘Salience and Inclusion’, Political Epistemology and Oppression Workshop, Princeton University: workshop takes place annually for three years.
2025 (Invited): ‘Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives’, Symposium on the Ethics of Attention, American Philosophical Association (APA), Central Division, Online (first APA conference that is online-only for environmental reasons).
2025 (Invited): Discussion of my paper ‘Attentional Objectification’, Warwick’s Centre for Ethics, Law, and Public Affairs, Warwick University.
2025 (Invited): ‘Tackling Underrepresentation’ , Trinity College Departmental Colloquium, Trinity College, Dublin.
2024 (Invited): Discussion of my paper ‘Attentional Objectification’, UCL Legal and Political Theory Colloquium, University College London.
Forthcoming (Invited): ‘Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives’, Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge.
2024 (Invited): ‘Responses to Underrepresentation: Salience and Implicit Bias’; , Workshop on Evidence, Democracy, and Implicit Attitudes, Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, University Pompeu Fabra.
2024 ‘I’m first, look at me!: Order-salience, scientific communication, and bias’, as part of a successful symposium bid along with Gregory Radick and Tom McClelland, ‘Salience: Exploring the Patterns, Processes and Pathologies of Attention in Science’, for the British Society for the Philosophy of Science 2024 Conference, University of York.
2024 (Invited as keynote speaker): ‘Salience and Imagination: A Double Bind for Socially Progressive Initiatives’, Art, Imagination and Morality conference, Oxford University.
2024 (Invited) ‘Objectifying by Attending’, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Bayreuth.
2023 (Invited as keynote speaker): ‘Graded Attention, Graded Objectification’, HEY: A Graduate Conference on Attention and Salience, Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP), University of Vienna.
2023 (Invited): ‘Objectifying by Attending’, Political Theory Network, Sheffield University.
2023 (Invited) ‘Attentional Objectification’, APA Pacific, Symposium on ‘Attention: Contemporary Approaches’, San Francisco, USA.
2022 (Invited) ‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Minimal Attentional Surplus’, GOODATTENTION Project Inaugural Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.
2022 ‘Attentional Harm as a Microaggression’, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Mobile, USA.
2022 ‘Gender Similarities and Differences: Why Linguistic Salience Matters’, Women in the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics.
2021 ‘Harming by Attending’, Mental Sciences Group, University of Cambridge.
2021 Harmful Salience Structures’, Popper Seminar, London School of Economics.
2018 ‘Harmful Salience Perspectives’, Current Trends in Social Epistemology, University of Melbourne.
2018 ‘Reuniting the Biological and the Social: Developmental Systems Theory and Feminism’, Philosophy of Biology UK, University of Bristol.
Service to the profession
Nov 2021- present ‘Salience’ editor, PhilPapers.
Dec 2021- 2022 Faculty representative for Minorities and Philosophy, LSE.
2013-2014 Co-chair for Women in Philosophy, Cambridge University.
Other relevant experience
2021-22 The Forum, London School of Economics – Organised and chaired a well-received event (view here) on the topic of ‘anger’.
2019-present Philosophy in Prisons, King’s College London – Part of a group helping to build resources for use in the preparation of future prison courses on Philosophy.
2019-present Research Network, Government Equalities Office – Invited to join a network of academics who can be solicited to conduct research for the Government’s Equalities Office, such as for their ‘Workplace and Gender Equality Research Programme’.
2017 Thinklab, Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnerships initiative – Chosen to participate in a 2-month training opportunity, which involved PhD students collaborating with professionals at The Reading Agency charity in London, to find new revenue streams in an increasingly digital world.
I regularly act as a reviewer for top journals and grant bodies, given a number of talks, and organised and chaired many (academic and public outreach) events. One recent event (June 2022) was a lecture that I presented to year 12 students, aimed at widening participation in Philosophy. The lecture was part of a series by LSE Explore; my lecture was the highest rated by students.
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