The School of Law congratulates Tehseen Noorani who has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.  Tehseen’s work, which was supervised by Dr Morag McDermont & Professor Bronwen Morgan (Law) and Professor Thomas Osborne (SPAIS), focused on the interface of the personal and the political in mental health.

Using a capacities-based approach, inspired by Spinoza’s Ethics (1677), he explored two mental health self-help networks. By analyzing both individual capacities and collective techniques of self-work that render mental distress ‘understandable’ within experimental practices, he demonstrated how these practices offer possibilities for rethinking modes of governance and forms of political claims-making within the field of mental health.  His examiners were Professor David Cowan (Law, Bristol University) and Professor Mariana Valverde (Criminology, University of Toronto).

Tehseen is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Warwick, working on the Authority Research Network's new project, Authority, Knowledge and Participatory Practice.