Heather Widdows Ph.D.

Heather Widdows, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. Her most recent book is Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal, which was listed by The Atlantic as one of the 19 best books of 2018 and described by Vogue as “groundbreaking." Widdows's everydaylookism campaign has also been featured in Japanese Vogue. Her research spans issues of moral philosophy, feminist philosophy, and applied ethics. Her current focus is on beauty, and she has recently held a Major Leverhulme Fellowship and an AHRC grant on this topic. She has also run international, multidisciplinary grants on biobanking, on the governance of human tissue, property in genetics, and on women’s reproductive rights. Her previous books include The Connected Self: The Ethics and Governance of the Genetic Individual (2103), Global Ethics: An Introduction (2011), and The Moral Vision of Iris Murdoch (2005). She has co-edited, with Darrel Moellendorf, The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics (2014); with Nicola Smith, Global Social Justice (2011); with Caroline Mullen, The Governance of Genetic information (2009); and, with Itziar Alkorta Idiakez and Aitziber Emaldi Cirión, Women’s Reproductive Rights (2006). She previously served on the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council (2007-2013) and on the Philosophy sub-panel 2014.