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Charlotte was 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

 

 

Charlotte has given two TEDx talks and has spoken at Medicine Unboxed, British Academy events, and other festivals of ideas. 

(Selected talks below)

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).

 

SAPERE keynote speaker and invitation to be Patron, at SAPERE AGM, Royal National Hotel, London, World Philosophy Day (November, 17th, 2016)

 

Inspirefest 2016. Talk on the future of

the medical appointment.

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

(April 5th, 2014)

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

in 2012.

(November 5th, 2012)

Radio & TV

Selected recent radio & television - please see CV for more information.

Newstalk Breakfast with Susan Keogh Newstalk Radio, Dublin. Interview on anxiety and depresson rates among Ireland's youth. [Listenership: 128,000 (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, a notorious Irish GP (1899-1983) who was a suspected serial killer. (October 2017).

George Hook Show, Newstalk Radio, Dublin. Interview on Philosophy Ireland launch. [Listenership: 128,000 (August 30th, 2016).

George Hook Show, Newstalk Radio, Dublin, Interview on my Irish Times Feature on philosophy in schools. [Listenership: 128,000] (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 

[Viewers: 201,600] (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)

 

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Newspapers & Blogs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charlotte's research has been covered by a range of international publications.

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 

(Interview with Daniel Mediavilla)

February 25th, 2023

Spiked: The snobbish war on the red tops

February 20th, 2023

Spiked: Prince Harry and the trouble with therapy

January 27th, 2023

STAT: Placebo response reveals unconscious bias among white patients toward female, Black physicians

(Interview with Katherine Gilyard)

June 28th, 2022

Medscape: Should you tell your doctor you're a doctor?

(Interview with Sharon Worcester)

November 9th, 2021

BMJ Blogs: Patients reading their medical records: The end of deceptive placebos?

November 2nd, 2021

Medscape: Open notes: Big benefits, few harms in psychiatry, experts say

(Interview with Megan Brooks)

October 29th, 2021

BMJ Blogs: We need to talk about 'closed notes'

October 15th, 2021

Medscape. 'You have cancer': When the computer pre-empts the doctor

(Interview with Sharon Worcester).

August 11th, 2021

HemOnc Today. While empowering patients, oncology open notes may add to physician workload. (Interview with Jennifer Byrne).

May 10, 2021

Cambia Health Foundation: New U.S. federal rule to ensure easy access to patient health information. (With Catherine DesRoches & Liz Salmi)

April 5th, 2021

Psychology Today. Should you read the notes your doctor writes about you? (Interview with Dr. Dustin Ballard).

April 4th, 2021

Medscape. Starting Monday, patients can read your notes: 5 key things. (Interview with Nick Mulcahy).

April 1st, 2021

Psychology Today. Boosting engagement with care: Emerging, existing, and underutilized technology solutions that you can use today

March 24th, 2021

Medscape Don't fear patients reading their clinical notes: Opinion

February 11th, 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. Opening mental health notes: 7 tips to prepare clinicians

October 19th, 2020

Medium. Treating patients like grown-ups: Open notes

July 12th, 2020

Aeon/Psyche. Should mental health patients see their doctors' notes?

July 22nd, 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'.

Circulation: 1.8m monthly page views. December 20th, 2018.

 

The Times of India: 'UK doctors skeptical that AI could replace them: Study'.

Circulation: 1.3m monthly. 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'. Circulation: 105,000. June, 11th, 2017.

 

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

Bi-monthly readership: 18,595. April 23rd, 2017.

 

The Guardian journal edition: Opinion, page 25: ‘How do you save a child from a robot?’

Readership – print journal: 161,000 daily. January 9th, 2017.

 

The Guardian online: ‘Philosophy can teach children what Google can’t’.

Article shared: 74,196 times; 477 comments by January, 16th, 2019. January 9th, 2017.

 

BMJ Blog: ‘Mind the gap: Ethical failures in the treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome’.

Readers: 10m per month. December 6th, 2016.

 

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'

Readership - print & online: 217,000. August 29th, 2016.

 

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

Readership: 85,000. August 28th, 2016

 

Silicon Republic. Invited feature: 'The need for cosmopolitan ideals in research'

Readership: 250,00 monthly. July 18th, 2016.

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

Circulation: 108,500. June 28th, 2016.

 

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

Readership: 250,000 monthly. June 13th, 2016.

 

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

Readership: 250,000 monthly. June 3rd, 2016).

 

The Irish Times. Invited feature entitled ‘Is this on the exam? The pressing need for philosophy in schools?'

Readership: 85,000. May 2nd, 2016

 

The Washington Post: Interview for feature entitled 

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

you have never heard of’.

Circulation: 475,000. March 22nd, 2016.

 

The Irish News Review of TEDx UCD talk ‘Philosophy is a Right’ :

‘TEDx – a forum for making our world a better place’

Circulation: 40,000. December 7th, 2015.

 

Nautilus Interview in award-winning science magazine for a feature entitled 'Is Facebook Luring You into being Depressed?' 

Visits in 2014: 7,000 000. December 3rd, 2015.

 

The Irish Times Quoted in Editorial on Philosophy in Irish Schools. Education for what? The case for critical thinking. 

Circulation: 85,000. August 22nd, 2015.

 

The Irish Times Interview on Philosophy for Children ahead of Symposium at University College Dublin. Philosophy: the subject that improves children's literacy, numeracy and conduct

[Circulation: 85,000] (August 15th, 2015)

 

Psychology Today Feature on my article on ‘Facebook depression’ (Review of General Psychology, 2015) entitled ‘Exploring Facebook depression'

May 25th, 2015. Circulation: 275,000 bi-monthly.

 

The Herald Invited feature entitled 'Research on the placebo effect is a bitter pill for pharmaceutical companies to swallow'

Circulation: 49,500. May 14th, 2015.

 

The Herald Interview for a feature entitled 'Antidepressants: the real story behind their increase in use and the side-effects'

[Circulation: 49,500] (May 13th, 2015)

 

The Kernal Interview for a feature entitled 'How Facebook is changing the way we think and feel'

Visits: 10,000 000 per month. May 3rd, 2015.

 

British Medical Journal Blog.Invited blog post ‘The talking cure taboo’. April 20th, 2015.

 

The Irish Times Interview on my research into the ethics of psychotherapy.‘Is psychotherapy a license to deceive?’ 

[Circulation: 85,000] (April 1st, 2015)

 

The Guardian Invited feature entitled ‘Can a shot of the humanities make doctors more humane?’ 

November 4th, 2013.

 

The Irish Times Interview for a feature which included my experiences of teaching philosophy to schoolchildren in Belfast: ‘We think, Therefore We Learn’ 

Circulation: 105,000. February 21st, 2012.

 

The Irish News Feature entitled ‘Empowering Young Minds of the Future’ – making the case for introducing philosophy into schools – even for the youngest pupils. 

Circulation: 40,000. July 19th, 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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