My doctoral thesis is supervised by Professor Mathew ThomsonLink opens in a new window and Dr Claudia SteinLink opens in a new window, and is funded by the Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership (M4C)Link opens in a new window. Currently titled, “The Making of a ‘Psychedelic Renaissance’ in Britain’, my thesis explores the twenty-first century ‘renaissance’ of neuroscientific, psychotherapeutic and cultural interests in psychedelic drugs, with a focus on Britain. It explores how the eclectic community that makes up the psychedelic movement is caught up in a maelstrom of macro-structural and historical forces surrounding the growing influence of neuroscience and neoliberalism. By using the present-day ‘psychedelic renaissance’ as an optic which sheds light onto broader notions of the individual, the thesis hopes to illustrate that this example of renaissance story-telling may exhibit a broader shift in the notion of the individual surpassing those typically associated with modernity and postmodernity.