I'm a researcher in philosophy of cognitive science.
I'm based at the University of Glasgow's Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience, where I hold a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and a Lord Kelvin/Adam Smith Fellowship. I investigate what unifiesmental imageryas a kind which can explain cognitive phenomena. As part of an interdisciplinary project between neuroscience and philosophy, I also conduct empirical research into the function of mental imagery, looking especially at its contribution to episodic memory in individuals withaphantasia.
Before this, I was based at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where I was a postdoctoral researcher on Ali Boyle's UKRI-funded project Episodic Memory: Uniquely Human? This interdisciplinary project explores the distribution and function of episodic memory. In short, what is episodic memory for, and who has it? Drawing on evidence and tools from philosophy, comparative cognition, and computer science, we apply these questions to artificial agents and non-human animals.
I have also previously held a position as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, and a position as a Teaching Associate in Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Psychology in the Philosophy Department at the University of Sheffield.
