Staff

Natalia Burakowska

Doctoral Student

Alessandro Guardascione

Doctoral Student

Alessandro Guardascione is an Irish Research Council Scholar and PhD student in the UCD School of Philosophy working on a project in the philosophy of psychiatry, entitled, “Values and Selfhood in Psychopathology”. His research focuses on contemporary person-centred approaches to mental health care that explore the role of values in psychiatric classification and clinical decision-making. The project aims to investigate conceptual models of mental disorders that integrate with the neuro-biological paradigms of patients’ active role in shaping symptoms, influencing the development of their disorders and the outcome of psychiatric therapy.

Roxane Pret Théodore

Doctoral Student

Roxane Pret Théodore is a doctoral researcher and Irish Research Council scholar, in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the implications of feminist theories of vulnerability for politics. Building both on feminist philosophy, specifically vulnerability theories and care ethics (Butler, Cavarero), and on classical works of critical social and political philosophy (Habermas, Arendt), the aim of her research is to develop an alternative model of politics based on a theoretical reframing of the concept of vulnerability, with a view to rupturing traditional categories in politics and opening up a more democratic space for traditionally marginalized and underrepresented groups.