Papers presented

Is neurodiversity a fact and does it factual status matter? Service users and the limits of objectivity, Philosophy of Psychiatry work in progress day, Lancaster University, June 2022 , Lancaster, forthcoming

How the lived experience of experts-by-experience relates to the abstract nature of science, Keynote Speaker, Too Mad To Be True, The Promise and Perils of the First Person Perspective, Museum Dr Guislain, Ghent, May 2023

Theory-ladenness in expert-by-experience involvement in psychiatric research, Faculty of Arts and Social Science Health Hub, Lancaster University, May 2023

Psychiatric Diagnoses as Idealised Models, Arguments and Consequences, Departmental Seminar, Lancaster, November 2022

The importance of involving service users with different psychiatric diagnoses when revising diagnostic criteria, Work in Progress session, Lancaster, November 2022

The importance of engaging service users with different diagnoses in participatory research, Philosophically analysing the role of service users in psychiatric research, June 2022

Service users and the limits of objectivity, Philosophy of Psychiatry work in progress day, Lancaster University, June 2022

Validating systems of psychiatric diagnoses
Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, University of Lancaster, June 2021

A historical overview of subtyping autism
Workshop on subtyping autism, November 2019, London South Bank University

Psychiatric symptoms, like psychiatric diagnoses, are “constructed”: epistemic consequences
International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry, October 2019, Warsaw, Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, University of Lancaster, June 2019, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, July 2020, Kent (Cancelled due to Covid 19)

Psychiatric diagnoses as recipes for constructing models of people
Association for the Advancement of Philosophy and Psychiatry, San Francisco, May 2019, British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Durham, July 2019, Philosophy of Psychiatry Summer School, July 2019, Vienna

Broadening the voice of neurodiversity through subyping autism
Disabilities Studies Conference, Lancaster University, September 2018, Uniting Two Perspectives on Mental Illness, Essex University, September 2018, Interdisciplinary Material Cultures in Medical Humanities, Lancaster University, July 2019

Using perspectivism to counter discontinuity arguments over psychiatric diagnosis
Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, University of Lancaster, May 2018

Lessons for Today from the History of Autism
Philosophy and Mental Health Workshop, Accrington and Rossendale College, April 2018

Functionalism, mechanisms and psychiatric diagnosis
British Society for the Philosophy of Science, Edinburgh University, July 2017

What was childhood schizophrenia and how did it relate to autism?
British Society for the History of Science Conference, University of York, July 2017

Causal Structure Vs Causal Mechanisms: Implications for RDoC
Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, University of Lancaster, June 2017

How symptom formulation can depend upon classifications
6th Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable: Understanding Disease and Illness, University of Bristol, August 2015

The 1950s origin of autism as low social skills and intellectual deficiency
British Society for History of Science Annual Conference, Swansea, July 2015

Problems with Validity as an Epistemic Standard for Psychiatry
International Conference for Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, Varna, Bulgaria, June 2014

Negotiating as individuals and groups
Patient knowledge and involvement in healthcare, Lancaster, May 2014

Executive functioning as a barrier to participation and inclusion (Poster)
Participation and Inclusion, National Autistic Society Conference, London, January 2014

Theory ladeness, corroboration and psychological theories of autism
Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, Lancaster University, May 2013

Scientific Realism and Antirealism
Concepts of Mental Health, 11th British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Masterclass, University College London, April 2013

From childhood schizophrenia to Asperger’s syndrome
Psychology Post-Graduate Seminar, Lancaster University Psychology Department, December 2012

The historical challenge to the reality of autism
Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, Lancaster University, February 2012.

Why historians cannot locate accounts of autism in pre-1943 psychiatry (Poster)
14th International Conference for Philosophy and Psychiatry, Gutenberg, September 2011

Inductive success and prevalence of symptoms in psychiatric entity construction
Philosophy Post-Graduate Seminar, Lancaster University Philosophy Department, June 2011