I joined the Philosophy Department at the University of Birmingham in September 2005. Since then, my research and teaching have focused on the philosophy of the cognitive sciences.

I have been Editor in chief of Philosophical Psychology (Taylor and Francis) since January 2022.

I am also the editor and founder of the Imperfect Cognitions blog and The Philosophy Garden, a virtual philosophy museum with resources on timely philosophical issues for young people and the general public.

I am the author of two textbooks and a key concept book:

• Introduction to the philosophy of science (Polity, 2008) 
• Irrationality (Polity, 2014)
• Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction (Polity, 2021, with Kengo Miyazono).

I am the author of three monographs:

• Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2009) which won the American Philosophical Association Book Prize in 2011. 
• The Epistemic Innocence of Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2020)
• Why Delusions Matter (Bloomsbury, 2023) which was a 2024 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. 

I edited four volumes:

• Philosophy and Happiness (Palgrave, 2009)
• Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives (OUP, 2009, with Matthew Broome), one of the Guardian Books of the Year in 2009
• Delusions in Context (Palgrave, 2018), open access
• Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare: Recognising agency and promoting virtues across the life span (Palgrave, 2025), open access

My research interests include: agency, rationality, and self knowledge in psychopathology; delusion and confabulation; biased cognition; epistemic innocence and epistemic injustice; the notion of disorder in the philosophy of medicine. I am also interested in some issues within biomedical ethics.

I am currently working on Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare. This project is funded by a Wellcome Discovery Award and coordinated by Havi Carel at the University of Bristol.

In 2020-2024 my research on youth mental health and agency was supported by two UKRI funded projects (the Agency Projects), one led by Rose McCabe at City University London, and one by Michael Larkin at Aston University.

For 5 years (2014-2019), I led a project called PERFECT,  Pragmatic and Epistemic Role of Factually Erroneous Cognitions and Thoughts, funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant (EUR 1.900.065). 

• Watch Lisa's inaugural lecture: "Agency without rationality"