Papers presented
Self-diagnosis in psychiatry, modelling and the Duhem-Quine thesis, Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, Lancaster University, March 2026, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, July 2026
Assessing the challenge of self-diagnosis to psychiatry, Philosophy Seminar, Lancaster University, November 2025
A tension between self-diagnosis and neurodiversity, Philosophy of Psychiatry Work in Progress Day, Lancaster University, June 2025
How self-diagnosis relates to categorical and dimensional approaches to psychiatric diagnoses, Psychiatric Diagnoses, Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives, Online, February 2025
Philosophically analysing the double-empathy problem, Neurodiversity, Autism, ASD and Other Categories in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tilburg, December 2025
Can self-diagnosis help improve the validity of psychiatric diagnoses? Philosophy of Psychiatry work in progress day, May 2024
Is neurodiversity a fact and does it factual status matter? Philosophy of Psychiatry work in progress day, Lancaster University, June 2023
Service users and the limits of objectivity, Philosophy of Psychiatry work in progress day, Lancaster University, June 2022
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, British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, Bristol, July 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