Post-doctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics
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Lucienne Spencer
Lucienne is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics located within the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (NEUROSEC) Team in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford .Her research primarily focuses on phenomenology, epistemic injustice and the philosophy of psychiatry.
She completed her SWW-DTP funded PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol in 2021. She was supervised by Prof. Havi Carel and Dr. Lisa El Refaie. Her thesis is entitled 'Breaking the Silence: a Phenomenological Account of Epistemic Injustice and its Role in Psychiatry.
Lucienne is also a member of the executive committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy, UK.
Recent publications
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Hermeneutical injustice and unworlding in Psychopathology
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Spencer LJ., (2023), Philosophical Psychology, 36, 1300 - 1325
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Epistemic Injustice Should Matter to Psychiatrists
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Kidd IJ. et al, (2023), Philosophy of Medicine, 4
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Commentary: Closing the gender gap in depression through the lived experience of young women - a response to 'Don't mind the gap: Why do we not care about the gender gap in mental health?', Patalay and Demkowicz (2023).
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Spencer L. and Broome M., (2023), Child Adolesc Ment Health, 28, 344 - 346
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Epistemic Injustice in Late-Stage Dementia: A Case for Non-Verbal Testimonial Injustice
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Spencer L., (2023), Social Epistemology, 37, 62 - 79
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The epistemic harms of empathy in phenomenological psychopathology
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Spencer L. and Broome M., (2023), Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences