is Senior Lecturer in Religions, Philosophy, and Ethics at Bath Spa University in the UK. She obtained her PhD as an Irish Research Council Scholar at University College Cork, Ireland where she researched the relationship between the thought of Japanese philosopher Nishitani Keiji and the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. She is founder of the Annual Bath Spa Colloquium for Global Philosophy and Religions, and is Academic Director of the International Academy for Chinese Thought and Culture, a collaborative summer school in China as part of the Global Academy of Liberal Arts. Her expertise lie in continental European and East Asian philosophies, in particular Daoism and Buddhism.