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Supervision

Areas of supervision:

  • Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Psychology
  • Philosophy and Ethics of Psychiatry
  • Applied Epistemology
 

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Eugenia Lancellotta and Matilde Aliffi at the Science Museum

Completed doctoral projects

  1. Andrew Wright (The Problems of Pain), February 2015.
  2. Andrew Woodhall (Addressing Anthropocentrism in Nonhuman Ethics), December 2016.
  3. Isaura Peddis (Empathy as an Emotion), September 2017.
  4. Rachel Gunn (Delusions and Affective Framing), November 2017.
  5. Magdalena Antrobus (Epistemic and Psychological Benefits of Depression), November 2017.
  6. Ben Costello (Moral Sequencing and Intervening to Prevent Harm), December 2018.
  7. Alex Miller Tate ('Radical' Cognitive Science and Philosophical Psychopathology: The case of depression), February 2019.
  8. Matilde Aliffi (Epistemic Rationality of Emotions: A new defence), April 2019.
  9. Federico Bongiorno (Strange Beliefs: Essays on delusion formation), November 2020.
  10. Markella Grigoriou (Blunted affect, social withdrawal and suicide in Schizophrenia), November 2020. 
  11. Valeria Motta (Being Present in Times of Absence: A Philosophical and Empirical Enquiry on Loneliness and Solitude), December 2020.
  12. Eugenia Lancellotta (Can delusions be adaptive? The case of OCD), October 2021.
  13. Chloe Bamboulis (The role of moral philosophy in CBT and in self construction), January 2023. 
  14. Joseph Houlders (OCD and Complete Certainty: The context of objective thought), April 2023.
  15. Jane Kisbey (On the nature of psychopathy), June 2023. 
  16. Reinier Schuur (The Disease Versus Morality Distinction: Essays in the Philosophy of Medicine), August 2023.
  17. Rafael Ambriz Gonzalez (Biomedical Characterisations in Psychiatry), November 2023.
  18. Jessica Sutherland (Can we blame them? An examination of the moral responsibility of current and former child soldiers), October 2023.
  19. Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (Confabulating well: the ethics of confabulation), March 2024.
  20. Aneela Khan (Exploring Epistemic Injsutice amongst Clinical and Non-clinical Groups with Unusual Experiences), September 2024.


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Magdalena Antrobus presenting her poster


Current doctoral projects

  1. Noorit Larsen (Ethical decision making in people suffering from mood disorders), 5th year p/t. Co-supervised with Matthew Broome and Anna Lavis.
  2. Rosa Ritunnano (Self, World and Meaning: Integrative Phenomenological Approaches to Psychosis Onset and Delusion Formation), 3rd year p/t. Co-supervised with Matthew Broome.
  3. Aisha Qadoos (Trauma and the Self), 2nd year. Co-supervised with Chiara Brozzo.
  4. Eleanor Harris (Delusions: Epistemic injustice and epistemic vigilance), 3rd year. Co-supervised with Ema Sullivan-Bissett and Ian Kidd.
  5. Matthew Williams (BID), 1st year. Co-supervised with Matthew Broome.



Images of some of the postdocs mentored by Lisa
Postdoctoral researchers:
Anneli Jefferson, Sophie Stammers,
Kathy Puddifoot, Ema Sullivan-Bissett,
Kengo Miyazono, Andrea Polonioli.


Mentorship of postdoctoral researchers

I have had the fortune to mentor a number of extraordinary post-doctoral researchers:
  • Kengo Miyazono, visiting post-doc in 2013-2015 and now Faculty at Hokkaido University (Japan).
  • Ema Sullivan-Bissett, PERFECT post-doc and now Faculty at the University of Birmingham (UK).
  • Anneli Jefferson, post-doc on the Costs and Benefits of Optimism project in 2015-2016 and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham 2016-2019, now Faculty at the University of Cardiff (UK).
  • Kathy Puddifoot, PERFECT post-doc in 2015-2018 and now Faculty at the University of Durham (UK).
  • Andrea Polonioli, PERFECT post-doc in 2016-2017 and now product marketing manager and business developer.
  • Sophie Stammers, PERFECT post-doc in 2016-2020 and now software engineer in a renewable energy company.
  • Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, EPIC post-doc in 2023-2026.
  • Jodie Russell, EPIC post-doc in 2024-2027.


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