Woodblock engraving of ‘Lady Justice’. Kathryn Ruthven-Body.

Kate Binnie at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. 

Further details of the garden:  The Asthma and Lung UK Breathing Space Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026 / RHS 

 Jodie Russell, Lisa Bortolotti and Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (pictured) presented at the Mental Interpretation and Mental Diversity Workshop in Granada.

Blueprint of the city as our home: 

Guided walk, philosophical discussion and creative Cyanotype workshop exploring the idea of the Third Space and the city as a home: a fantastic event with Alice Monypenny and Amelia Daiz  

At the Faces of Vulnerability conference in Rio de Janeiro, Anneli Jefferson and Lisa Bortolotti discussed power asymmetries and attributions of responsibility and blame in clinical interactions 

 Matthew Broome presents on Sartre, ipseity and artificial intelligence at the closing event of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health. 

 Jodie Russell on role playing games and mental health at the closing event of the Birmingham Network for Phenomenology and Mental Health. 

Lara Calabrese at the Alzheimer's Disease conference in Lyon, with a poster on our dementia case study 

Reflections on the musical dimensions of silence from John Pickard (Professor of Composition and composer) on 16.03.26

 A live musical performance from Schola Cantorum, University of Bristol on 16.03.26, followed by  reflections on the musical dimensions of silence from Emma Hornby (Professor of Music) 

Anthony Everett (Doctor of Philosophy) sharing his perspective on silence as a philosopher of language on 16.03.26

Dan Degerman (EPIC Research Fellow), sharing a philosophical overview of silence on 16.03.26

The 'Silence in Music and Philosophy' event was opened with a short mindfulness practice led by Kate Binnie (music therapist and NIHR doctoral student, Hull York Medical School), inviting us to attend closely to silence as an experience in itself

EPIC principal investigator Havi Carel introducing the 'Silence in Music and Philosophy' Event on 16.03.26

 EPIC investigator Matthew Broome (centre) in Florence at the Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS) 

 Rageshri Dhairyawan on her fantastic book 'Unheard' at the February EPIC in person meeting.

Kathleen Murphy-Hollies spoke at a seminar for the Valence Asymmetries project at UPF (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona). 

She talked about how people can be motivated and ‘want’ to believe unpleasant things like conspiracies and distressing delusions. 

A photo of EPIC team members and invited guests during our February in person meeting.

  Exciting workshop at the University of Bristol on epistemic injustice and expertise by experience. Talks by Lisa Bortolotti, Lucy Series and Sara Ryan. Organised by Sheelagh McGuinness. 

 Chiara Punzi speaks on paranoia and how the need to give meaning to experience can become pathological. At IPUE Rome 2025, Intercultural Approaches to the Care and Treatment of Illnes. Chiara talked about EPIC and the case study on paranoia she worked on. 

 Wonderful news: project EPIC post-doc Alice Monypenny has been awarded the Maria Baghramian Early Career Prize for a research paper on testimonial smothering! Congratulations Alice 

 Chiara Punzi (Ferrara) presented the thesis for her specialisation in Psychiatry on the phenomenon of Epistemic Injustice in Paranoia, one of the EPIC case studies. 

 EPIC postdoctoral researcher Kathleen Murphy-Hollies talks about the metaphorical meaning of delusions and how we can give uptake to delusions at the Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice Conference 

 Lisa Bortolotti at the Metaphor and Epistemic Injustice Conference in Cagliari. Chairs Elisabetta Lalumera. The talk explores obstructions to the performance of expertise. 

 At the Italian Society of Analytic Philosophy conference in Turin Elisabetta Lalumera discusses values and biases in science 

Lisa Bortolotti presents her work on epistemic injustice at a conference on expertise in mental health at Radboud University 

Ian James Kidd presents his work on epistemic injustice at a conference on expertise in mental health at Radboud University 

 Matthew Broome presenting at the PhenoLab

Jodie Russell presenting at the PhenoLab

 How has silence been medicalised in the context of depression? At the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, EPIC researcher Dan Degerman discusses various ways in which silence has been associated with depression. 

 At the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, EPIC postdoc Kathleen Murphy-Hollies discusses the case of epistemic injustice being harmful even when the report to be dismissed is false: she consider the importance of the speaker's perspective conveyed in the report of delusional beliefs. 

 At the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable, project partner Elisabetta Lalumera defends the importance of definitions in medicine, and presents a case of conceptual engineering in the revised definition of pain. 

Jodie Russell discusses work on intersectionality and mental health at the poster session during the Philosophy of Medicine Roundtable. Interesting to see several posters centred on EPIC themes such as epistemic injustice, expertise by experience, and phenomenology of illness. 

 Great panel at INPP in Leipzig from the Birmingham and Bologna contingent of the EPIC project! Jodie Russell, Matthew Broome, Elisabetta Lalumera, and Lara Calabrese 

 Matthew Broome discussed Kraepelin’s work at The Royal Society of Medicine 

 One of our Birmingham postdocs, Kathleen Murphy-Hollies, inTokyo, where she gave a talk on epistemic injustice and self-knowledge, at ‘Trajectories of Epistemic Injustice: Local and Global Perspectives 

 Matthew Broome participated in a session on delusion at SONEPSYN 2024, the Chilean society for neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery

Matthew Broome presenting project EPIC in Chile

 Matthew Broome presenting on the psychiatric interview at AESP in Paris 

 Great EPIC representation at the OZSW conference:  Kathleen distinguishing between two credibility assessments when listening to people who report false claims about themselves. 

 Great EPIC representation at the OZSW conference: Lisa arguing that epistemically unjust interactions are not good medicine