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I work in the Philosophy Department at the University of Nottingham (UK). The main focus of my research can be called ‘phenomenological philosophy of mind’, which means – as the name suggests – that I’m interested in using ideas from the phenomenological tradition to address issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, although I write about other things too. A lot of my most recent work has been about Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology. The current focus of my research is the phenomenological characterisation of pathological states. I am writing about intersubjectivity and disturbances to bodily experience in schizophrenia. I am interested in the parallels that one finds in descriptions of these and accounts of the bodily experiences that are claimed to be characteristic of certain kinds of gendered oppression.