Co-Lead, UON Exceptional Experiences & Consciousness Special Research Group
Louise completed her PhD into Transpersonal experiences in individuals with epilepsy at the University of Northampton. She is an active researcher and her research interests are in the phenomenology of transpersonal, exceptional and anomalous experiences and their transformative nature. Louise specialises in qualitative research methods, specifically, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis and Autoethnography. She is active in research in the growing field of clinical parapsychology, and is currently working on a UON Early Career Award project in conjunction with colleagues at the University of Lorraine, France, The Epilepsy Society, UK, and Epilepsy Ireland. She is passionate about engaging the voices of marginalised groups and individuals.
Spiers, L.N. (2022). ‘An autoethnographic Salon des Refusés of spiritual experiences of epilepsy’. In Moriarty, J. & Adamson, R. (eds.). Storying the Self. Intellect, (Performance and communities), UK.
Spiers, L. N. (2021). Dreamy States and Cosmic Wanderings: An Autoethnographic Narrative of Spiritual Experiences in Epilepsy. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 10(1), 50-77. doi 10.1525/dcqr.2021.10.1.50
Spiers, L. N. (2019). ‘Using autoethnography to explore the experience of spirituality in epilepsy’. In Leonardi, J. & Schmidt, B. (Eds.). Spirituality and Wellbeing: Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of religious experience and health. Equinox: Sheffield, UK.
