Richard Firth-Godbehere

Richard Firth-Godbehere, PhD, one of the world's leading experts on disgust and emotions, is an independent researcher and consultant in the history, language, science and philosophy of emotions, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University of London. He holds a first-class honours degree from the University of London, during which time he won two awards for academic excellence, as well as an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from Queen Mary, University of London, where he was a Wellcome Trust Scholar. His award-winning interdisciplinary research straddles history, psychology, linguistics and futurology. He explores how understandings of emotion change over time and how these changes can affect the wider world.

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