Leonie Smith talks about her research on epistemic injustice - The University of Manchester.

I’m interested in philosophical questions at the crossroads of traditional and social epistemology, social ontology, and epistemic and material injustice. My PhD project brings these themes together. I first identify and examine the particular epistemic and ontological harms faced by materially-impoverished social outgroups, such as refugees, homeless populations, and those living in poverty in otherwise wealthy nations. I argue that the epistemic and ontological exclusion of these groups facilitates the deepening of existing prejudices, negative bias, and substantive material harm towards populations who are already at severe risk of impoverishment and human rights abuses. These groups tend to be overlooked by analyses of epistemic injustice but, I suggest, their examination also offers broader important insights into both the mechanism of epistemic injustice and the possibilities for justice.
And from this groundwork of understanding the nature of testimonial injustice and epistemic exclusion, I then move on to investigate alternative ways to prevent these harms from occurring. I focus, in particular, on how the excluded might act in the face of their own oppression, rather than relying on the epistemic virtue of dominant knowers and institutions. I introduce and analyse the moral permissibility and practicality of an umbrella form of epistemic resistance undertaken by marginalised knowers, which relies on intentionally manipulating the cognitive biases of dominant knowers. In doing so, I introduce the novel concepts of epistemic nudging and epistemic salespersonship.

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