Miranda Heath

I am currently exploring how orthodox moral psychology is using a frame that biases research towards producing understandings of moral behaviour, and how we can harness it to live well together, that align with economic liberalism, while excluding moral theories that do not neatly align with it.

I hope that recognising this will enable us to move towards a moral psychology capable of producing a richer understanding of the ways in which we can live well together, in caring relation to one another, and better respond to existential collective action problems like the climate crisis.

I am also an aspiring independent researcher, with a particular interest in investigating complex social structural issues. In this capacity, I recently conducted a report on the causes and potential solutions to burnout in open source software. You can read it in my posts section below.

I am interested in how ideology shapes the sense we (can) make of the world. I co-organise the Ideology Research Group at the University of Edinburgh, where we present and discuss both new work and existing literature on ideology broadly construed.

I am supervised by Dr. Matti Wilks (Psychology), Dr. Barry Maguire (Philosophy) and Dr. Sue Widdicombe (Psychology).

I find joy in music, nature, painting, learning about programming (particularly Linux and web development) and connecting meaningfully with others. Oh, and spoonbills.

You can reach me at miranda@mirandaheath.website.