About

Hello!

I'm currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy, at the University of Cambridge. My supervisors are Professor Clare Chambers and Dr Jessie Munton. My work is supported by a Levy-Plumb Doctoral Scholarship, from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Christ's College, Cambridge.

Before my PhD, I studied Mathematics and Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford. Sometimes I miss doing maths. After that, I completed an MPhil in Philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge, funded by the Cambridge Trust.

My doctoral research combines philosophy of medicine with social and political philosophy. Mostly, I work on the diagnosis of gender dypshoria, and the concept of gender identity. I’m interested in how we assess whether a psychiatric diagnosis (like gender dysphoria) is worth its salt, and in how the concept of gender identity emerged and evolved over time. At the moment, I'm working on a genealogy of gender identity and gender dysphoria. Something else I've recently been working on is a fresh account of what a gender identity is, and what it means to have one. More broadly, I’m interested in the metaphysics of social identities – in how our sense of self is negotiated in dialogue with others, using resources made available by our social context. In a different area of philosophy, I've also written about political disobedience.

I supervise various undergraduate Philosophy papers, ranging from Formal Methods to political philosophy. Earlier this year, I lectured a Part II (third year) undergraduate course on Feminist Philosophy.

From September 2026, I'll be a Wiener-Anspach Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, working with Professeure Sandrine Detandt in the Faculty of Psychology. I'm looking forward to it!

Otherwise, I'm a big music fan. I love choral singing, and I sometimes work as a freelance mezzo-soprano. I used to sing with the choir of Merton College, Oxford, and I was the first woman to be a lay clerk with the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge. I also enjoy funk and techno. I'm a long-distance runner, and I have a long-term goal of bagging all of the Scottish Munros and Lake District Wainwrights. I'm also an aspiring triathlete, and a fan of cold-water swimming at the Cambridge Lido.