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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).

George Hook Show, Newstalk Radio, Dublin. Interview on Philosophy Ireland launch. (August 30th, 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 Arts and Culture Short film on the placebo effect.

(April, 10th, 2013)

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.

Press coverage

Select media coverage below.

The Guardian: The big idea: Why we should embrace AI doctors

August 31st, 2025

The Irish Independent: ‘One study found ChatGPT answered over 90pc of questions about endometriosis correctly’ – could AI cure healthcare’s gender bias?

August 7th, 2025

The Irish Times: AI: better at reading scan and a better bedside manner too?

October 15th, 2024

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

El País: What if the placebo effect doesn't work? A study questions what is believed about the healing of the body by the mind

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

March 24th, 2021

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?

October 21st, 2020

Psychology Today. Should psychotherapists open their notes to patients?

April 23rd, 2020

The Irish Times. Coronavirus: How can philosophy help us during this time of crisis?

March 26th, 2020

Wired. The end of placebos.

December 2nd, 2019

Gizmodo. 'Why do placebo work?'

October 28th, 2019

IEEE Spectrum. 'AI won't replace us, docs say'.

December 20th, 2018.

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.

The Sydney Morning Herald. Quoted in feature. 'Mind-body' healing: Success of placebo trials challenges medical thinking'

June, 11th, 2017.

Education Technology Interview on philosophy and technology. 'Philosophy essential for all'.

April 23rd, 2017.

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.

The Irish Times, Feature on Philosophy Ireland: Sabina Higgins backs campaign for teaching philosophy in schools

August 28th, 2016

The Irish Independent: Interview for a feature entitled 'Talking therapy is on the rise...but who are we talking to?'

June 28th, 2016.

Silicon Republic: Named as one of '18 researchers guaranteed to broaden your definition of the word’

June 13th, 2016.

Silicon Republic: Interview for a feature entitled ‘Taking a philosophical approach to improve healthcare'

June 3rd, 2016.

The Washington Post: Interview for feature entitled

‘Why the most hated person on the internet today is someone

you have never heard of’.