Public Work at the Intersection of Psychology, Technology, and Culture
Collaborations & Commissions
I work at the intersection of psychology, technology, and public life, bringing psychological and social insight into cultural, academic, and institutional settings. My work explores how contemporary systems — particularly AI-driven and digitally mediated environments — shape inner life, relationships, attention, and wellbeing.
A central concern of my work is how much contemporary distress is treated as personal failure, when it is more accurately understood as the predictable effect of how modern systems are designed. I focus on anxiety, burnout, and fragmentation not as individual pathologies, but as signals of environments built around optimisation, constant performance, and self-management.
Much of this work is organised around the idea of the algorithmic mind: the way digital systems increasingly shape attention, judgement, emotion, and habits of self-relation. Rather than functioning as neutral tools, algorithms act as subtle forms of governance — quietly training how people see themselves, relate to others, and make sense of the world.
I am interested in creating public spaces where these ideas can be explored with clarity and depth — without jargon, alarmism, or oversimplification. Audiences often describe this work as clarifying rather than overwhelming: serious without being heavy, and intellectually rigorous while remaining accessible and humane. I am often invited to contribute when organisations are looking for:
- psychologically grounded perspectives on technology and digital life
- ways of linking mental health to systems, design, and political economy
- clear language for complex issues around AI, care, and attention
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thoughtful, non-polarising contributions to public, cultural, or policy-facing conversations
I work across formats including talks, panels, long-form conversations, commissioned writing, and cultural programming within literary festivals, museums, galleries, universities, and public institutions; as well as collaborative or advisory projects. Collaborations are shaped in dialogue, with an emphasis on depth, public intelligibility, and leaving people thinking differently, rather than offering ready-made answers.
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.
Keeping it authentic, fearless and compassionate
Get involved by working with me directly. Alongside receiving one-to-one support, you’ll be contributing to the development of NeuroClear — an emerging, evidence-based clinical platform focused on assessment and support for neurodivergent adults.
