Research

I have a diverse research background in behavioural neuroscience, social psychology, and philosophy of mind.

My experience includes involvement with Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Bloomberg School of Public Health and extensive work with personal identity literature. My research interests focus on normative ethics, psychological sustainability, and cognitive neuropsychology.

Presently, I am exploring how the influence of the development of mental skills—specifically resilience, goal setting, visualisation/mindfulness and self-regulation—alongside the development of personal and athletic identity can measurably improve athletic competition performance, coping skills and psychological resilience. This project frames athletic performance as a holistic endeavour by combining psychological theories of resilience, mindfulness and identity development with normative accounts from the philosophy of sport. This perspective supports the design of interventions that engage the whole person—not just the competitor—leading to more sustainable, ethical and human-centred approaches to athletic performance.

Feel free to contact me to discuss collaboration or research opportunities in cognitive science, philosophy or psychology!

A paper on the utility of shame

  • Abstract: This paper explores the relationship between a self-regarding emotion, namely moral shame, and the self. This investigation requires that we carefully parse through existing accounts of the self and of shame to understand what utility comes with shame. What does it mean for us when we experience shame? And what does it mean for others when we ask them to feel shame? These questions are at the center of this paper. I argue that there ought not to be morally justifiable utility to shame because it is harmful to the self. This paper has salient practical implications for today’s society; especially when we consider the use of online shaming and the shaping of personal identity on the internet, considering the interactions between moral shame and the self is of particular importance.