clare's writing
Books & Ideas
My writing spans non-fiction, fiction, and public commentary on how contemporary systems shape inner life and belonging.
Non-Fiction
The Algorithmic Mind
The Algorithmic Mind (forthcoming) examines why rising anxiety, burnout, and social fragmentation are not personal failings, but designed outcomes of contemporary systems. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, political economy, and computer science, it explores how algorithmic technologies govern attention, identity, and behaviour — and why individual fixes such as productivity tools or therapy alone cannot address structural harm. The book asks what forms of care, public life, and meaning remain possible in an algorithmic age.
Fiction
Borderless
Borderless (2026) is a literary novel about Charlotte, a British woman adrift in contemporary India, determined to live without borders — of nation, class, race, or desire. Moving through Delhi, Bangalore, Goa, and the Himalayan foothills, she becomes entangled in relationships that expose the uneasy intersections of intimacy, power, and privilege. As she confronts the limits of mobility and freedom, the novel asks what belonging means in a globalised world — and whether borderlessness liberates, or slowly exiles.
Belonging
Statement
Our Mission: We are called to restore belonging in a time that quietly erodes it. Our mission is to challenge the idea that anxiety, burnout, and disconnection are personal failures, and to make visible the systems that shape how we live, work, relate, and understand ourselves. We resist the reduction of inner life to performance, optimisation, or data, and argue instead for forms of life that allow depth, relationship, and meaning to endure.
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Latest Blog Posts
This blog gathers ongoing writing on psychology, technology, ethics, and contemporary life. Posts explore how systems shape inner experience — attention, belonging, mental health — and why so much distress now treated as personal is better understood as structural and designed.
Rather than offering advice or self-improvement strategies, the writing focuses on sense-making: connecting private experience to public conditions, and examining how digital, institutional, and cultural forces organise how we live, relate, and understand ourselves.
Essays published here are also shared via Substack and are intended for readers interested in thoughtful, accessible writing that takes complexity seriously without retreating into jargon.
Perfection by Design
From Influencers to Infrastructure Before TikTok, influencers built audiences on YouTube and Facebook. Today’s creator economy is the matured expression of that earlier ecosystem —
What Universities Are Becoming
For much of modern history, universities presented themselves as moral institutions: places charged with cultivating judgment, curiosity, and the capacity for independent thought. Over
Surviving, Not Thriving: The Real Story of Students at University
University life is often portrayed as the quintessential experience, filled with endless opportunities, intellectual growth, and social excitement. But behind the glossy brochures and social
Procrastination: The Student’s Greatest Frenemy
University life is a whirlwind of assignments, exams, and let’s admit it—epic procrastination sessions. Raise your hand if you’ve ever stared at a blank screen,
Getting to Graduation: What Does it Really Take?
So you’ve got into university, and you think the hard graft is over. Sweating it out with all-nighters for your A-Levels is finally behind you,
If Universities are Businesses, Why the Poor Customer Experience?
Undergraduate recruitment in the UK has turned into a competitive market. It’s changed from state-allocated and number-controlled, to fully competitive business with £20 billion plus
The Value of a Degree: Weeding out Facts from Fiction
There’s a lot of hard selling going on in the UK about getting a degree. Whether it’s universities, government entities, teachers or companies, there’s a