Havi Hannah Carel (Hebrew: חוי כראל) is a professor of philosophy at the University of Bristol.
She was lecturer at the University of the West of England then moved to the University of Bristol as a senior lecturer and was later promoted to professor.
Carel also teaches at the Bristol Medical School.
[2] Carel is best-known for her work on the phenomenology of somatic illness, and has led AHRC-funded projects on concepts of health, illness, and disease (2009–11), a Leverhulme Trust-funded the lived experience of illness (2011–12), a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2012–13)[3] and recently completed a five-year Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award funded project, 'The Life of Breath'[2][4] She employs film in teaching and has co-edited a volume entitled New Takes in Film-Philosophy.
[5] In 2006, Carel was diagnosed with lymphangioleiomyomatosis, a very rare life-limiting lung disease, and much of her academic work reflects her own lived experiences as an ill person.