Core Staff

Wayne studied philosophy both in the UK and in the USA and taught for twelve years at the University of California, San Diego, before coming to Essex in 2005. He is director of the EAP and leads the research team here. Wayne’s philosophical interests are diverse – he has worked extensively on philosophical issues from the post-Kantian idealist tradition and phenomenology; he has published one book of Fichte and another on the phenomenology of judgement, and has published articles on the history of symbolic logic, Dutch Still Life painting, Stoicism, deontic logic and the paintings of Lucas Cranach the Elder. He is currently working on a monograph with the working title The Patient Agent: Autonomy and the Regulation of Care.

Email: wmartin@essex.ac.uk View CV/Bio

Fabian is co-director of the EAP and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex. He read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Exeter College, Oxford, and completed a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Sheffield. For the EAP his work has covered the intersection of ethics, politics and the law, as well as the intersection of ethics, law and psychiatry. Fabian is currently preparing a broader project that looks at the social causes of illness and disorder.

Email: ffrey@essex.ac.uk View CV/Bio

Sabine joined the School of Law in 2000. She graduated from Hamburg, qualified as a lawyer in Berlin, and holds a Diploma in Comparative Law awarded by the University of Paris II and a PhD from the University of Sheffield. Sabine’s research interests include end of life decision making, in particular the controversial issue of assisted dying. For the EAP, Sabine contributes to research on the Mental Capacity Act and compliance with the UNCRPD and the Mental Health and Justice project. She is also Director of the Essex Transitional Justice Network.

Email: smichal@essex.ac.uk View CV/Bio

Matt completed a PhD in philosophy at Rice University and taught at the University of Arkansas for five years before coming to Essex in 2013. He has published articles on philosophical method and the phenomenology of agency. His current research focuses on issues in moral psychology with an approach that draws from the resources of both empirical psychology and the phenomenological tradition.

Email: mburch@essex.ac.uk View CV/Bio

Sándor is a Senior Research Officer for the Essex Autonomy Project. He is working on the EAP ‘Insight’ Work Stream of the Wellcome Trust funded Mental Health and Justice project. Sándor’s interests are in human rights and disability studies.

Email: sg17096@essex.ac.uk

Polona is a Senior Research Officer for the Essex Autonomy Project. She has a PhD from University of London in Psychology/Psychosocial Studies and is interested in relational autonomy from psychoanalytic and psychosocial perspectives. She’s working on the EAP ‘Insight’ Work Stream of the Wellcome Trust funded Mental Health and Justice project, on the concept of insight and its relationship to mental capacity.

Email: pc17931@essex.ac.uk

Katherine is a Philosophy Lecturer at University College Cork, where she directs the MA in Health and Society. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Durham University’s ‘Knowledge for Use’ project. She completed a PhD in Philosophy at the London School of Economics in 2016.

Margot Kuylen is a final year PhD student in Philosophy, working on disruptions of agency in self-oppression.

Marios is a final year Philosophy student with a particular interest in questions regarding the concepts of competency and the self. For the EAP, Marios contributes to research on the Mental Capacity Amendment Bill and will present his dissertation’s findings on the development of the concept of ‘will’ from antiquity onwards. He has previously undertaken internships in the Legal sector and is involved with NGO Humanists UK as a Committee member of the  Colchester branch and as the Vice President of the University’s Humanist Students.