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​My research generally falls in the subject areas of moral philosophy and social epistemology, though I hope that most of my work might equally be described as feminist philosophy, since feminist perspectives have always been an integral part of my work in philosophy. When I was a student, it was specifically the feminist philosophical work that I read while doing an interdisciplinary MA in Women’s Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury that brought me back to graduate study in philosophy. ​I subsequently completed my DPhil at Oxford (1996) having had the good fortune of being co-supervised by Sabina Lovibond and Bernard Williams --a double gift which, as the years go by, I appreciate with increasing clarity.

An interest in the significance of social identity and power for all kinds of human practices continues to drive my work, and it tends to lead me to the border territories that lie between epistemology and moral philosophy. Borders of genre also fascinate me. This, combined with a sense of the limits of explicit argumentation for certain kinds of subject matter, has led me to write a philosophical play. Most of my work is in moral philosophy, though the papers I have written on epistemic injustice since 2007 are all attempts to discuss it in political and institutional framings.
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