Two research papers and an essay. The papers start from the same position: art is not the isolated act of a lone genius — making art, and writing its history, are both shaped by environment and institutions.
Research paper
Art history
Asks why women who worked as artists in Republican-era China were later forgotten. The paper argues that institutional choices accumulate into historical absence — legitimacy in art is produced by institutions — and that recovering individual names is not enough: the narrative of art history itself has to be rethought.
Feminist art history, Art historiography, Cultural memory
Research paper
Interdisciplinary — human geography, art history, psychology of creativity
Considers how artist residencies, and the environments they create, act as an active force — reshaping how artists look, think and make. The paper works through artist case studies, cross-cultural experience and the mobility of artistic labour.
Topophilia, Place attachment, Displacement, Artist residencies
Essay
Psychology
Written in response to the John Locke Institute 2026 Global Essay Prize question in Psychology.
Argues that rising psychiatric diagnosis rates reflect both over-diagnosis and better recognition. Diagnosis has no fixed biological boundary; it is shaped by social and institutional factors. Using ADHD and other cases, the essay shows how widening diagnosis corrected the historical exclusion of women and minority groups while also stretching psychiatric categories to cover milder distress. It shares a question with the art-history work: how institutions produce visibility, boundaries, legitimacy and recognition.
Diagnosis, ADHD, Institutions