Dr Hanna Pickard
BA, BPhil, MA, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 2017
I am a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham and for many years I have also worked in a NHS Therapeutic Community for patients with personality disorder. My research is inter-disciplinary: I tend to explore philosophical questions that arise out of clinical practice and related science, often in connection with criminal and mental health law and policy. I work on a wide range of topics, including issues involving responsibility and blame in clinical and criminal contexts, and the nature of addiction.
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2006)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997 to 2005)
- Postgraduate, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1995 to 1997)
- Undergraduate, Queen’s University, Canada (from 1991 to 1995)
- Philosophy of mind
- Philosophy of psychiatry
- Moral psychology
- Epistemology
- Biomedical and clinical ethics
- Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Clinical Research Fellow at The Oxford Centre for Neuroethics, Faculty of Philosophy
- OBMH NHS Trust Therapist at the Complex Needs Service, Oxford