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About Heather Widdows
- Heather Widdows (born 29 August 1972) is a British philosopher, specialising in applied ethics.
- She is currently the John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics and Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research Impact at the University of Birmingham.
- Her research is in the areas of global ethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of health and bioethics.
- She has been based at the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham since 2001.
- In 2005 she was awarded a visiting fellowship at Harvard University.
- Her most recent book, Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal (Princeton University Press, 2018), explores how the nature of the beauty ideal is changing - becoming more dominant, demanding and global than ever before.
- Widdows argues that to address the harms caused by the beauty ideal, we must first understand its ethical nature.
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