Awards
One of ten winners of the BBC/Arts and Humanities Research Council New Generation Thinkers in 2012-13 and is a regular contributor to BBC radio.
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Festivals, Speaking Events, Podcasts
Select talks below
Medics Voices. Interview with Domhnall MacAuley (May 26th, 2024)
Futureproof, Newstalk Radio. Interview on the nocebo effect with Jonathan McCrea (March 17th, 2024)
Deep Breath In, BMJ, Patent access to notes. (December 16th, 2022)
British Academy Event at Imagine: A Festival of Ideas Panel discussion on 'Machines, morality, and the future of healthcare'. (March 23rd, 2017)
The Storey Institute, Lancaster. ‘Philosophy for Everyone’, Philosophy in schools and the community, (February 1st, 2017)
Áras an Uachtaráin, Dublin: Reception for Philosophy Ireland with President of Ireland and Mrs Higgins, World Philosophy Day. (November 19th, 2016).
Inspirefest 2016. Talk on the future of
Bord Gais Theatre, Dublin.
(July 1st, 2016)
TEDx UCD. University College Dublin.
'Philosophy is a right'. (December 4th, 2015).
TEDx Fulbright, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.
‘Hypocritical Oaths: Medicine’s Dirty Secrets’,
Selected as TEDx Editor’s Picks in August 2014
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3VRtjbON8Q
Medicine Unboxed Cheltenham,UK.
Debate with the philosophers
Dr. Julian Baggini and Professor Deborah Bowman.
(November 17th, 2013)
BBC Free Thinking Festival at the Sage,
Gateshead, UK. Talk entitled 'The Medicine Game'
recorded live and broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
This was the fastest-selling event at Free Thinking
Radio & TV
Select recent radio & television - please see CV for more information.
Talk Back, Interview on study on UK GPs' use of generative AI in clinical practice, BBC Radio Ulster, Belfast, UK
Breakfast show: Interview on study on UK GPs' use of generative AI in clinical practice, LBC News, London, UK (September 18th, 2024)
Moncrieff: Interview on the nocebo effect with Sean Moncrieff. Newstalk Radio, Dublin (September 10th, 2024)
Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh Newstalk Radio, Dublin. Interview on anxiety and depresson rates among Ireland's youth. (July 6th, 2019)
BBC Radio Four, The Placebo Paradox. (February 18th, 2019).
RTE One: Interview for a documentary entitled Futurevisions: Can philosophy save Ireland? The also included an interview with President Michael D. Higgins. RTE One (September 3rd, 2019).
TG4: Interview for a documentary on Dr John Bodkin Adams. (October 2017).
George Hook Show, Newstalk Radio, Dublin. Interview on Philosophy Ireland launch. (August 30th, 2016).
George Hook Show, Newstalk Radio, Dublin, Interview on my Irish Times Feature on philosophy in schools. (May, 2016).
RTE One's Interviewed by Kathriona Devereux
European award-winning science programme
"10 Thing to Know About...Pain" for research on
placebo effect (December 7th, 2015)
BBC 2 Newsnight Consulted by reporter
Jim Reed for research on a feature on
electroconvulsive therapy
(July 11th, 2013)
BBC Arts and Culture Short film on the placebo effect.
(April, 10th, 2013)
Press coverage
Select media coverage below.
The New York Times: Heads up: That patient portal may contain your therapy notes
September 25th, 2024
Sky News: One in five GPs using AI at work despite lack of training - with some even using it in diagnosis
September 18th, 2024
The Madrid Review: A coffee with Dr Charlotte Blease
July 4th, 2024
The Independent: GPs 'sceptical' about giving patients online record access to medical records - study
February 2nd, 2024.
The Daily Mail: GPs 'sceptical' about letting you see your medical records online because they think it will make you 'worry' more
February 22nd, 2024
The Guardian: No more missing records or letters lost in the post - I will bring in a totally digital NHS
Keir Starmer
May 23, 2023
February 25th, 2023
STAT: Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians
June 28th, 2022
Medscape: Should you tell your doctor you're a doctor?
November 9th, 2021
Medscape: Open notes: Big benefits, few harms in psychiatry, experts say
October 29th, 2021
Medscape. 'You have cancer': When the computer pre-empts the doctor
August 11th, 2021
HemOnc Today. While empowering patients, oncology open notes may add to physician workload.
May 10, 2021
Cambia Health Foundation: New U.S. federal rule to ensure easy access to patient health information.
April 5th, 2021
Psychology Today. Should you read the notes your doctor writes about you?
April 4th, 2021
Medscape. Starting Monday, patients can read your notes: 5 key things.
April 1st, 2021
Psychology Today. Boosting engagement with care: Emerging, existing, and underutilized technology solutions that you can use today
The Irish Times. Our patients should be allowed to examine their medical notes
November 2nd, 2020.
Medscape Should mental health patients see their doctors' notes?
Psychology Today. Should psychotherapists open their notes to patients?
The Irish Times. Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us during this time of crisis?
Gizmodo. 'Why do placebo work?'
October 28th, 2019
IEEE Spectrum. 'AI won't replace us, docs say'.
The Times of India: 'UK doctors skeptical that AI could replace them: Study'.
December 19th, 2018.
The Week: 'British doctors skeptical that AI could entirely replace them'.
December 19th, 2018.
Education Technology Interview on philosophy and technology. 'Philosophy essential for all'.
Irish Daily Mail. Frontpage and pages 2, 12 coverage of Philosophy Ireland launch. page 1: 'Philosophy course for our schools'; page 2: 'Thinking caps are pulled on as philosophy hits schools'; page 12: 'Get priorities right'
August 29th, 2016.
August 28th, 2016
Silicon Republic: Named as one of '18 researchers guaranteed to broaden your definition of the word’
June 13th, 2016.
June 3rd, 2016.
The Washington Post: Interview for feature entitled
‘Why the most hated person on the internet today is someone
The Irish News Review of TEDx UCD talk ‘Philosophy is a Right’ :
‘TEDx – a forum for making our world a better place’
Psychology Today. Exploring Facebook depression
May 25th, 2015.
The Herald. Research on the placebo effect is a bitter pill for pharmaceutical companies to swallow
The Herald. Antidepressants: the real story behind their increase in use and the side-effects
The Kernal. How Facebook is changing the way we think and feel
The Irish Times. Is psychotherapy a license to deceive?
The Irish Times. We think, Therefore We Learn
