Rate My Professor Louise Richardson

Richardson has co-investigated several funded projects, including the AHRC-supported ‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience’ (2020–2023, principal investigator Matthew Ratcliffe), ‘Purpose and Procedure in the Philosophy of Perception’, and ‘Art and the Limits of Perception’. Her publications appear in prominent journals, including ‘Sniffing and Smelling’ in Philosophical Studies (2013), ‘Seeing Empty Space’ in European Journal of Philosophy (2010), ‘Flavour, Taste and Smell’ in Mind & Language (2013), ‘Bodily Sensation and Tactile Perception’ in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2013), ‘On the Appropriateness of Grief to its Object’ in Journal of the American Philosophical Association (2023), ‘Grief over Non-Death Losses: A Phenomenological Perspective’ in Passion (2023), and ‘Absence Experience in Grief’ in European Journal of Philosophy (2023). She serves as an editor for Mind and Language, Director of Postgraduate Research, Chair of the EDI committee, the department's equality champion, and Athena Swan lead. Richardson contributes to public engagement through events such as Death Cafe, Picturing Grief, and York Festival of Ideas workshops on grief and creativity, alongside numerous invited talks and workshops. She supervises PhD projects in philosophy of perception, grief, mind, and psychology.