Clare's
Speaking
Clare navigates difficult topics with humour, vulnerability, and sharp psychological insight, bringing seriousness without heaviness and complexity without defensiveness.
She is a writer and psychologist whose work examines how technology and contemporary power structures quietly shape inner life — attention, relationships, identity, and mental health. Clare delivers keynotes, public lectures, panels, and in-conversation events for academic, cultural, policy, media, and public audiences.
- How Technology Governs Inner Life
- AI as Companion, Confessor, and Authority
- Love and Power in the Digital Age
- Why Burnout Isn’t Personal: Designed Environments
- When Care Becomes Automated
- Neurodivergence in a Designed World
- Evolutionary Mismatch
Her speaking is grounded in the view that many experiences now framed as personal problems — anxiety, burnout, distraction, relational strain — are better understood as structural and designed outcomes. Rather than offering quick fixes or self-improvement frameworks, her talks support collective sense-making, helping audiences recognise what lies beneath familiar narratives of wellbeing, progress, and innovation.
Talks are adapted for different audiences and formats, including public lectures, panels, festivals, policy forums, and closed conversations. Clare speaks to universities, cultural institutions, interdisciplinary conferences, and public audiences, and her work resonates with those seeking ideas that are intellectually rigorous yet personally felt, at the intersection of technology, ethics, and mental health.
Approach
- Clare’s talks are responsive to audience, context, and format, allowing ideas to emerge in relation to the space rather than being delivered as a closed performance.
- Oriented toward conversation, not conclusion. Sessions are designed to open dialogue rather than settle debate, inviting reflection instead of certainty.
- Attentive to tone as well as content. Care is taken to create conditions where difficult ideas can be explored without simplification, defensiveness, or polarisation.
- Focused on patterns rather than prescriptions. Rather than offering answers, Clare surfaces the assumptions, tensions, and structures that quietly shape experience.
- Grounded in shared responsibility. Audiences are supported to think together about care, power, and the conditions shaping contemporary life. “What feels personal is often structural.”
Keeping it authentic, fearless and compassionate
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