Research Bio – Ben Lee
Ben Lee is PhD candidate in Occupational Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His dissertation involves developing a new instrument/scale to better understand everyday sensory experiences among persons with schizophrenia through a series of focus groups involving mental health professionals with lived experience of serious mental illness, as well as people living with schizophrenia themselves. Ben aims to establish a research agenda that values and honors the lived experience of people diagnosed with schizophrenia and the socio-cultural aspects of the senses and sensory experience, which often get overlooked in biomedical approaches.