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About Ben Alderson-Day

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor at Durham University and member of the Developmental Science research group at Durham. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities and the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing. From 2012 to 2022 he was a member of Hearing the Voice, an interdisciplinary project that explored the topic of voice-hearing (or auditory verbal hallucinations). Joining originally as a postdoctoral researcher, he was one of six co-applicants for Hearing the Voice's second Wellcome award in 2015, and in 2020 he became Associate Director of the project (working alongside PI Charles Fernyhough and Co-Director Angela Woods). The project is internationally recognised for its interdisciplinary approach and contribution to psychosis research, which produced over 200 outputs. In 2019 they launched Understanding Voices, the world's largest web resource for supporting people with distressing voices. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Early Career Hallucinations Research (ECHR) group, a network of over 250 ECRs in 24 countries conducting research on hallucinations and related topics. Prior to working at Durham, he completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Research Co-ordinator for Lime Trees Child & Adolescent Mental Health team in the NHS in York.

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor at Durham University and member of the Developmental Science research group at Durham. He is also a fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities and the Wolfson Institute for Health and Wellbeing.

From 2012 to 2022 he was a member of Hearing the Voice, an interdisciplinary project that explored the topic of voice-hearing (or auditory verbal hallucinations). Joining originally as a postdoctoral researcher, he was one of six co-applicants for Hearing the Voice’s second Wellcome award in 2015, and in 2020 he became Associate Director of the project (working alongside PI Charles Fernyhough and Co-Director Angela Woods). The project is internationally recognised for its interdisciplinary approach and contribution to psychosis research, which produced over 200 outputs. In 2019 they launched Understanding Voices, the world’s largest web resource for supporting people with distressing voices.

He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Early Career Hallucinations Research (ECHR) group, a network of over 250 ECRs in 24 countries conducting research on hallucinations and related topics.

Prior to working at Durham, he completed his PhD in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a Research Co-ordinator for Lime Trees Child & Adolescent Mental Health team in the NHS in York.

Articles with Ben Alderson-Day

On ‘PRESENCE: The science and true stories of the unseen other’

Ben Alderson-Day is an Associate Professor at Durham University and member of the Developmental Science research group at Durham. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Early Career Hallucinations Research (ECHR) group, a network of over 250 ECRs in 24 countries conducting research on hallucinations and related topics. His most recent research has concerned “felt presence”: the sensation that someone is present without any sensory cues. In this interview, he discusses his latest book ‘PRESENCE: The strange and true stories of the unseen other’ (Manchester University Press, March 2023).