PUBLIC WORK AT THE INTERSECTION OF PSYCHOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY AND GOVERNANCE
Public Work & Commissions
I write and collaborate on the psychological, cultural and political consequences of technological change. My work explores how AI, digital systems and contemporary institutions are reshaping attention, identity, relationships and public life.
I work across formats — from commissioned essays, documentaries and long-form interviews to festivals, public programmes and interdisciplinary projects. The aim is to bring psychological depth and historical perspective to questions often treated as either purely technical or purely personal.
I welcome collaborations with publishers, media organisations, museums, galleries, universities, think tanks, charities and public institutions developing ambitious cultural or public-facing work.
- Artificial intelligence and emotional life
- Psychology, technology and society
- AI governance and the human consequences of design
- Attention, identity and digital culture
- Burnout, anxiety and organisational life
- Ethics, public trust and responsible innovation
- The future of work and human flourishing
- Contemporary culture, belonging and social change
Non-Fiction
The Algorithmic State
The Algorithmic State begins with a reversal: it has become more profitable to redesign people than to repair what makes them anxious, distracted, exhausted and alone. It traces how the market’s imperatives—to measure, rank, optimise and extract—were written into code, and how that code became an environment that trains attention, desire and behaviour through the nervous system. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience and political economy, it shows how distress is recast as personal failure, then sold back as treatment, resilience and self-improvement. It asks how to reclaim our time, agency, relationships and capacity to stand down.
Fiction
Borderless
Borderless (2027) is a literary novel about the seduction of reinvention. When Charlotte Hughes leaves London for India, she imagines she can escape the borders that have shaped her life — of nation, class, ambition and identity. Instead, she discovers that every crossing creates new boundaries, and every search for freedom carries its own forms of exile. Moving through Delhi, Bangalore, Goa and the Himalayan foothills, Borderless explores love, power, belonging and the uneasy freedoms of contemporary global life.
What feels personal is often designed
Read, listen or work with Clare across writing, speaking, advisory and psychological practice.
