Dr Lucienne Spencer

Post-Doctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics, Department of Psychiatry

About

Dr Lucienne Spencer is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Mental Health Ethics located within the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society (NEUROSEC) Team in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford. Her research primarily focuses on phenomenology, epistemic injustice and the philosophy of psychiatry.

She completed her SWW-DTP funded PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bristol in 2021. Her thesis is entitled Breaking the Silence: a Phenomenological Account of Epistemic Injustice and its Role in Psychiatry.

Dr Spencer is a member of the executive committee for the Society for Women in Philosophy, UK.