Florence Chiew earned her PhD in Sociology at the University of New South Wales. She has published on a broad range of topics, including social theory, educational philosophy, the sociology of neuroscience, new materialist feminism and human–animal relations. Florence is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in how empirical data from the life and health sciences can be used to foster conceptual innovation in the humanities and social sciences. She is currently working on a project that explores the use of writing and narrative as a therapeutic practice.