Core team:

David Corfield works on connections between health and the mind.

David has a longstanding interest in psychosomatic approaches to medicine. He is the co-author with Darian Leader of Why do People Get Ill? (Penguin Books, 2007) which explores the role of the mind in ill health through a psychoanalytic lens.

 

 

Lubomira Radoilska works on mental health and neurodiversity in connection to values-based practice.

Lubomira leads a participatory research initiative on Meaningful Voices aiming to develop, test and document new collaborative strategies for learning from lived experiences in the context of mental health.

 

 

Alexandra Trofimov works on connections between health and the law.

Alexandra works on the project, EBL+: New philosophical foundations for evidence-based law (Leverhulme Trust 2023-26).

 

 

Michael Wilde works on evidence in medicine.

Michael leads the project Evidential Pluralism in evaluations of carcinogenicity and social interventions (AHRC 2023-25).

 

 

Jon Williamson works on evidence in medicine and methods for causal and probabilistic inference in medicine.

Jon leads the project, EBL+: New philosophical foundations for evidence-based law (Leverhulme Trust 2023-26) and works on the project Evidential Pluralism in evaluations of carcinogenicity and social interventions (AHRC 2023-25).

 

 

Impact officer:

Joe Jones works on evidence in health and public policy. He is also REF and KEF officer at KCL.

Joe works on the project Evidential Pluralism in evaluations of carcinogenicity and social interventions (AHRC 2023-25).

 

 

Past students and postdocs:

• Daniel Auker-Howlett works on medicines optimisation at NHS England.
• Kathryn Body is studying philosophy of medicine at Bristol.
• Lorenzo Casini is assistant professor of philosophy at Bologna.
• George Darby is teaching fellow in philosophy at Oxford Brookes.
• Juliette Ferry-Danini is an assistant professor of philosophy of medicine at Namur in Belgium.
• Virginia Ghiara was Head of What Works: Parental Relationships at the Early Intervention Foundation and is now at Fujitsu Research.
• Teddy Groves is a data scientist at the Danish Technical University.
• Phyllis Illari is professor of philosophy of science at UCL.
• Juergen Landes is assistant professor of logic at Milan.
• William Levack Payne is data manager at East Sussex County Council.
• Veli-Pekka Parkkinen is a philosopher of science at Bergen.
• Elliot Porter is a teaching fellow in ethics at Birmingham
• Alyx Robinson is at the faculty of medicine, health and social care at Christchurch.
• Federica Russo is professor of philosophy at Utrecht.
• Yafeng Shan is assistant professor of philosophy of science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
• Samuel Taylor is a senior policy advisor for the UK Government.
• Erik Van Aken is an instructor in philosophy at Rocky Mountain College.
• Christian Wallmann is a data scientist in industry.