Excited to say that I've been selected to speak at CRITICAL: NNMHR Congress 2023. If you're interested in all things contemporary and the literary medical humanities make sure to tune in! #nnmhr23

My latest article “Mastering Otherness with a Look: On the Politics of the Gaze and Technological Possibility in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun” has finally been published. You can find it at: doi.org/10.1080/001116…

Can't wait to talk about our research at Conversation, Eastercon 2023 ! If you are attending the convention, come see our talk "Imagining Reproductive Futures" about reproduction in space through the lens of science and science-fiction on Saturday 8th at 4.30pm 🚀🪐 Emily Finer

We had such a blast at Conversation, Eastercon 2023 last weekend! Nicola Simonetti Emily Finer, V Anne Smith and I presented our project 'Forecasting reproduction in space', which uses scientific and literary data to develop novel scenarios 🚀🪐 Modern Languages at St Andrews School of Biology #StACES

Only 2 days to go until one of the biggest #medhums events of the year - and there's still time to register... Sign-up today for FREE online access to thrilling keynotes and panels on themes like #neurodiversity #decoloniality #disability and much, much more 👇 See you there!

What can wellbeing and health research look like in the arts, humanities and social sciences? Online Symposium FASS Health Hub Lancaster University 22-23 May Programme here: nnmh.org.uk/lancaster-symp… Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/wellbeing-an…

Excited for today's presentation on PhD and digital cross-institutional collaboration at UK Council for Graduate Education 6th International Conference on Developments in Doctoral Education and Training in Bath. If you're around, come check us out at 3:40pm! Graduate School for Interdisciplinary Studies 🎓

It’s been an intense week travelling around but excited to say that one week ago today I passed my PhD viva with a thesis on epistemologies of the contemporary and neurodiversity! Massive thanks to my fantastic examiners Prof Stuart Murray and Prof Peter Boxall for a lovely viva!

📢🗞️✨The very first newsletter from the Narrative Practices Lab has hit the wires! Read all about what the Lab got up to in 2023-24 and their plans for the future here 👇 tinyurl.com/npl-aug-2024

Excited to say that next month I will be starting as a Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities at Durham Institute for Medical Humanities Durham University 🧬📚

Fabulous day ReaderBank Edinburgh International Book Festival today! Lots of really interesting conversations about reading, imagination types, characters’ voices and immersion in story worlds. Find out more: readerbank.org

Last week I was delighted to meet Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 2/10 PhD authors are down, who next?

It was event co-ordinator Nick’s final day and, as per tradition, here is his pile of leaving recommendations for you all. Nick, you will be missed greatly!

If you want to know more about what I’ll be doing for the next 12 months, check this out! 👇

#CallForAbstracts alert! The The Measurement Lab are now inviting individual & panel submissions for their free, hybrid conference on #CriticalNeurodiversityStudies in June – variety of formats welcome. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Feb 2025 🔗 tinyurl.com/cfa-cns-direct…

Have you ever wondered how time is experienced during an episode of obsessive-compulsive distress and why popular temporal frameworks fail to capture the nuances of OCD? I'm excited to share insights from my ongoing research at Interacting Minds: interactingminds.au.dk/events/single-…

📣Hybrid seminar alert! Join Nicola Simonetti on 4 February for an exploration of obsessive-compulsive time through a non-clinical lens (11-12:30 CET, online or in-person at the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University). Find out more: medhumsplatform.org/measurement-la…

Thrilled to share that my talk from last week at the Interacting Minds is now available on YouTube! Grateful for my time at Aarhus University and the opportunities it provided to share research and exchange ideas with brilliant medical humanities scholars. youtube.com/watch?v=sc5Jig…

🤩Check out the stellar line up of speakers joining us in person in Durham for Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions (24–26 June) ndhumanities.com/2025/02/26/cri…