I am currently co-investigator on the AHRC funded project
‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience’. As part of the project, I have been writing papers on the object of grief, and grief over non-death losses (with other project team members); grief and memory (with Dorothea Debus); and absence experience in grief. I am currently working on a paper on shared grief, and (with Becky Millar) a paper on the surprising role of smell in facilitating continuing bonds with the dead.
In the philosophy of perception, I have focussed on structural aspects of perceptual experience, and on non-visual perception, especially taste and smell. I also have a long-standing interest in how and for what purposes we distinguish between the senses. I have numerous in-progress papers on smell, including one in which I argue that we can smell gustatory properties, such as sweetness.