Staff profile

My interests lie in the phenomenological, epistemic and sociopolitical character of extreme experiences, and how these are made sense of across different 'consciousness cultures'. Currently, I am writing a monograph tracing the renewed scientific and therapeutic interest in psychedelic experiences in the global North, exploring implications for thoeries of psychopathology and approaches to mental health care. Weaving together scientific, medical, spiritual and aesthetic registers, this research is situated in the context of medicalisation and the ongoing 'war on drugs'.

I have trained and taught in a range of disciplines including anthropology, psychology, sociology, socio-legal studies, epidemiology and science and technology studies, and have collaborated with anthropologists, human geographers, sociologists, psychopharmacologists, mental health service users and survivors, Mad Pride organisations and healthcare professionals. These experiences inform my interest in the epistemological, methodological and ethical challenges that arise in attempts to conduct meaningful interdisciplinary and participatory research.

I am a member of Hearing the Voice, a Wellcome Trust-funded project based in Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities.

Book review

• 'Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry': Book Review
  
  Noorani, T. (2020). ’Collaborative and Indigenous Mental Health Therapy: Tātaihono – Stories of Māori Healing and Psychiatry’: Book Review. The Polyphony. Advance online publication.
• An Anthropologist in Psychedelia: Interview with Nicolas Langlitz
  
  Noorani, T., & Langlitz, N. (n.d.). An Anthropologist in Psychedelia: Interview with Nicolas Langlitz. The OPEN Foundation. Advance online publication.

Chapter in book

• The Psychonaut's Journey: Race, Closure and Hope
  
  Noorani, T. (2017). The Psychonaut’s Journey: Race, Closure and Hope. In P. Bresnihan, L. Dawney, & C. Blencowe (Eds.), Problems of Hope. ARN Press.
• Launching More-than-human Investigations
  
  Noorani, T., & Liebert, R. (2016). Launching More-than-human Investigations. In J. Brigstocke & T. Noorani (Eds.), Listening with Non-human Others. ARN Press.
• Psychedelic Nonwriting
  
  Noorani, T. (2016). Psychedelic Nonwriting. In J. Brigstocke & T. Noorani (Eds.), Listening With Non-human Others. ARN Press.
• Participating with Objects
  
  Noorani, T. (2013). Participating with Objects. In T. Noorani, C. Blencowe, & J. Brigstocke (Eds.), Problems of Participation: Reflections on Authority, Democracy and the Struggle for Common Life. ARN Press.
• Conspiration in the Archive: Sense-making and the research interview methodology
  
  Noorani, T. (n.d.). Conspiration in the Archive: Sense-making and the research interview methodology. In B. Alderson-Day, A. Woods, & C. Fernyhough (Eds.), Voices in Psychosis. [Contracted by publisher]. Oxford University Press.

Edited book

• Listening With Non-human Others
  
  Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (Eds.). (2016). Listening With Non-human Others. ARN Press.
• Problems of Participation: Reflections on democracy, authority, and the struggle for common life
  
  Noorani, T., Blencowe, C., & Brigstocke, J. (Eds.). (2013). Problems of Participation: Reflections on democracy, authority, and the struggle for common life. ARN Press.

Journal Article

• Dark loops: contagion effects, consistency and chemosocial matrices in psychedelic-assisted therapy trials
  
  Noorani, T., Bedi, G., & Muthukumaraswamy, S. (2023). Dark loops: contagion effects, consistency and chemosocial matrices in psychedelic-assisted therapy trials. Psychological Medicine, 53(13), 5892-5901. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291723001289
• Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia
  
  Noorani, T. (2021, September 15). Digital Psychedelia: Hidden Experience and the Challenge of Paranoia [Website content]. Somatosphere.
• Methodology or Muse? A Response to the Commentaries
  
  Noorani, T. (2021). Methodology or Muse? A Response to the Commentaries. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 28(3), 227-231. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2021.0035
• Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry
  
  Noorani, T. (2021). Containment Matters: Set and Setting in Contemporary Psychedelic Psychiatry. Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology, 28(3), 201-216. https://doi.org/10.1353/ppp.2021.0032
• ‘You don't take things too seriously or un‐seriously’: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project
  
  Laver, C., McGrath, L., Liebert, R. J., Noorani, T., Barnes, N., Chase, M., Hall, J., & Wakeling, B. (2021). ‘You don’t take things too seriously or un‐seriously’: Beyond recovery to liminal and liminoid possibility in a community arts and mental health project. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 32(4), 653-664. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2583
• New Frontiers or a Bursting Bubble? Psychedelic Therapy Beyond the Dichotomy
  
  Noorani, T., & Martell, J. (2021). New Frontiers or a Bursting Bubble? Psychedelic Therapy Beyond the Dichotomy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, Article 727050. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.727050
• Hallucinations Under Psychedelics and in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Comparison
  
  Leptourgos, P., Fortier-Davy, M., Carhart-Harris, R., Corlett, P. R., Dupuis, D., Halberstadt, A. L., Kometer, M., Kozakova, E., LarØi, F., Noorani, T. N., Preller, K. H., Waters, F., Zaytseva, Y., & Jardri, R. (2020). Hallucinations Under Psychedelics and in the Schizophrenia Spectrum: An Interdisciplinary and Multiscale Comparison. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 46(6), 1396-1408. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbaa117
• Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare
  
  Mazanderani, F., Noorani, T., Dudhwala, F., & Kamwendo, Z. T. (2020). Knowledge, evidence, expertise? The epistemics of experience in contemporary healthcare. Evidence and Policy, 16(2), 267-284. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426420x15808912561112
• Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain
  
  Noorani, T., & Alderson-Day, B. (2020). Spotlight commentary: REBUS and the anarchic brain. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020(1), Article niaa007. https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niaa007
• Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice
  
  Noorani, T., Karlsson, M., & Borkman, T. (2019). Deep experiential knowledge: reflections from mutual aid groups for evidence-based practice. Evidence and Policy, 15(2), 217-234. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426419x15468575283765
• Sciencing the mystical: the trickery of the psychedelic trip report
  
  Noorani, T. (2019). Sciencing the mystical: the trickery of the psychedelic trip report. New Writing, 16(4), 440-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2019.1566375
• Psychedelic therapy for smoking cessation: Qualitative analysis of participant accounts
  
  Noorani, T., Garcia-Romeu, A., Swift, T. C., Griffiths, R. R., & Johnson, M. W. (2018). Psychedelic therapy for smoking cessation: Qualitative analysis of participant accounts. Journal of Psychopharmacology, 32(7), 756-769. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269881118780612
• Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company
  
  Blencowe, C., Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2018). Engines of alternative objectivity: Re-articulating the nature and value of participatory mental health organisations with the Hearing Voices Movement and Stepping Out Theatre Company. Health., 22(3), 205-222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459315590246
• Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes
  
  Noorani, T., Charlesworth, A., Kite, A., & McDermont, M. (2017). Participatory Research and the Medicalization of Research Ethics Processes. Social and Legal Studies, 26(3), 378-400. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663916677561
• Conducting Qualitative Research With Psychedelic Psychopharmacologists: Challenges of Co-Production in an Era of Interdisciplinarity
  
  Noorani, T. (2017). Conducting Qualitative Research With Psychedelic Psychopharmacologists: Challenges of Co-Production in an Era of Interdisciplinarity. SAGE Research Methods Cases. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781526404862
• Posthuman Attunements: Aesthetics, Authority and the Arts of Creative Listening
  
  Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2016). Posthuman Attunements: Aesthetics, Authority and the Arts of Creative Listening. GeoHumanities : Space, Place, and the Humanities., 2(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2016.1167618
• Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation: Abstinence outcomes and qualitative analysis of participant accounts
  
  Garcia-Romeu, A. P., Noorani, T., Griffiths, R. R., & Johnson, M. W. (2015). Long-term follow-up of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation: Abstinence outcomes and qualitative analysis of participant accounts. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 156, Article e78. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2015.07.1130
• Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach
  
  Blencowe, C., Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2015). Theorising participatory practice and alienation in health research: A materialist approach. Social Theory & Health, 13(3-4), 397-417. https://doi.org/10.1057/sth.2015.23
• Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health
  
  Noorani, T. (2013). Service user involvement, authority and the ‘expert-by-experience’ in mental health. Journal of Political Power, 6(1), 49-68. https://doi.org/10.1080/2158379x.2013.774979
• A Sociological Comparison of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Britain
  
  Meer, N., & Noorani, T. (2008). A Sociological Comparison of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Britain. Sociological Review, 56(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2008.00784.x

Manual

• More-Than-Human Participatory Research
  
  Noorani, T., & Brigstocke, J. (2018). More-Than-Human Participatory Research [Manual / guide].

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• The Psychedelic Revival
  
  Steinhardt, J., & Noorani, T. (2020). The Psychedelic Revival [Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots Fieldsites].
• Psychedelic Pedagogy (radio interview)
  
  Noorani, T. (2017). Psychedelic Pedagogy (radio interview) [Radio].

Other (Print)

• The Changing Shape of Self-help/Mutual Aid
  
  Noorani, T. (2018). The Changing Shape of Self-help/Mutual Aid. The Community Psychologist.
• Self-help and Mutual Aid: Greetings from the New Chair and Looking Ahead
  
  Noorani, T. (2017). Self-help and Mutual Aid: Greetings from the New Chair and Looking Ahead. The Community Psychologist.
• Psychedelic Expereinces, Hope and Troubles of Inclusivity
  
  Noorani, T. (2016). Psychedelic Expereinces, Hope and Troubles of Inclusivity. Psymposia Magazine.
• Patterning a World of Mushrooms
  
  Noorani, T. (2016). Patterning a World of Mushrooms. Psymposia Magazine.

Report

• Authority, Knowledge & Performance in Participatory Practice: Connected Communities Discussion Paper
  
  Blencowe, C., Brigstocke, J., & Noorani, T. (2013). Authority, Knowledge & Performance in Participatory Practice: Connected Communities Discussion Paper.
• Immanent Authority and the Making of Community: Connected Communities Discussion Paper
  
  Blencowe, C., Brigstocke, J., Dawney, L., Amaral, A., Kirwan, S., Millner, N., & Noorani, T. (2011). Immanent Authority and the Making of Community: Connected Communities Discussion Paper.