Wellcome Trust Ethics and Society projects (2011, 2013)
In 2013 I was awarded a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in the Ethics & Society stream to organise an interdisciplinary one-day workshop on moral responsibility and psychopathology. With the grant co-applicants, Matthew Broome and Matteo Mameli, I asked what the relationship should be between an agent's diagnosis of mental illness and an attribution of less than full moral responsibility to that agent.
A project entitled "Rationality and Sanity: Implications of a Diagnosis of Mental Illness for Autonomy as Self Governance" was funded by the Wellcome Trust with a Research Expenses Grant (January-June 2011). I looked at the relationship between rationality and sanity and its consequences for diagnosis in psychiatry.
Research Fellowship (AHRC and Endeavour Programme 2009)
From July to December 2008 I was Endeavour Research Fellow at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science (now ARC Centre of Excellence of Cognition and its Disorder) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, working on a project on rationality and self-knowledge in delusions. The Fellowship was funded by the Department of Science, Education and Training of the Australian Government. In my time at Macquarie I participated in the Delusions and Hypnosis reading group together led by Max Coltheart, Robyn Langdon, and Amanda Barnier.
From January to end of April 2009 I was on AHRC-funded leave to complete a number of articles on delusions and a monograph for Oxford University Press in the International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry Series. My research question was: Are ownership and authorship of thoughts necessary for intentionality and rationality?