Staff profile

I am currently a PhD student in the Philosophy Department, where my research is supported by an AHRC Northern Bridge Doctoral Award. I received my BA in Philosophy from Durham in 2023, before completing my Research Masters in Philosophy at KU Leuven, Belgium in 2025. 

My research explores the cultural dimension of the environmental crisis, focusing on how technological discussions dominant in current public environmentalism implicitly rely on a powerful cultural story of humanity’s capacity to ‘play God’ at the planetary level. I am examining how this narrative—rooted in modern assumptions about humanity’s separation from and mastery over the natural world—continues to shape how we think about environmental issues, and limits our ability to imagine more environmentally responsible ways of being human. The aim is to demonstrate that, alongside technological approaches, public environmentalism should embrace the arts as a means to confront these problematic cultural narratives and imagine new possibilities for collective environmental practice.  

More broadly, I engage with a wide range of questions in phenomenology and the philosophy of religion, and their overlap with environmental issues. In particular, I am interested in the phenomenology of embodiment and its significance in understanding human animality; ways of ‘finding the sacred’ in nature; and the environmental and religious implications of the growing cultural interest in post- and trans-humanism.

In my (rather limited!) spare time, I can be found on long walks, attempting to paint, or listening to Mahler and Wings.

• Environmental Philosophy
• Phenomenology and Post-Kantian Philosophy
• Philosophy of Religion