Heather Widdows was born on 29 August 1972 and is a British philosopher, specialising in applied ethics.
17 Facts About Heather Widdows
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Heather Widdows was at the University of Birmingham for 22 years, beginning as research fellow and finishing as Pro-Vice-Chancellor.
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Heather Widdows is currently a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Warwick.
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Heather Widdows's research is in the areas of global ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of health and bioethics.
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Heather Widdows did her undergraduate degree Systematic Theology first class and PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
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Heather Widdows was supervised by Professor James P Mackey and Ronald Hepburn.
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Heather Widdows became part of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham as a research fellow in the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics in 2001.
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Heather Widdows continued to work there until 2022, becoming a lecturer in 2003, senior lecturer in 2005, and professor of global ethics in 2009.
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Heather Widdows became the deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research Impact in 2017, and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Knowledge transfer in 2021.
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Heather Widdows is currently the deputy chair of the REF2021 Philosophy sub-panel.
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Heather Widdows served as a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics from 2014 to 2020 and previously on the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council from 2007 to 2013, and a member of Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Cosmetic Procedures from 2015 to 2016.
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Heather Widdows was supported in writing this book by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.
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In Perfect Me Heather Widdows argues that beauty is functioning as ethical ideal, transforming our understandings of the world, our judgements of others and ourselves.
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Heather Widdows launched a social media campaign to end body shaming at the Annual Global Ethics Conference at the University of Birmingham in June 2019.
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Heather Widdows argues that lookism is a prejudice that is more prevalent and more damaging in a virtual culture where our bodies are ourselves.
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Heather Widdows has been quoted in The Guardian, the New York Times, Vogue, BBC Newsround, Seventeen.
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Heather Widdows has appeared on BBC Two's Victoria Derbyshire programme, and been interviewed by BBC Radio 4 and ABC Radio.