I'm a second-year PhD student in philosophy at ANU and a Global Priorities Fellow at the Forethought Foundation, Oxford. Before starting at ANU did MAs in philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and Washington University in St. Louis.

My research is on the use of theories of wellbeing in public policy. Governments are increasingly using wellbeing frameworks with the aim of measuring and promoting wellbeing more directly than using things such as income and GDP as proxies for wellbeing. Governments create these wellbeing frameworks without having a clear idea of what wellbeing is. I argue that government wellbeing frameworks should use a theory of wellbeing, a clearly expressible view of what wellbeing is. A problem with doing so is that philosophers intractably disagree about which theory of wellbeing is correct, as they have conflicting intuitions about wellbeing. To avoid this problem, I use a new method to find the right theory of wellbeing for public policy. I argue that right theory of wellbeing for public policy is a particular kind of subjectivism about wellbeing.

Before working on wellbeing and public policy my research was in ethics and metaethics. I've published articles about reasons and love, Mill's metaethics, and moral bioenhancement, and have a commissioned chapter on utilitarianism forthcoming in a book on ethical theories from around the world.