Dr Helen Watt holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh and is a Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. From 2010-2021 she was Senior Research Fellow at the Anscombe Bioethics Centre in Oxford prior to which she was the Anscombe Centre Director. She joined the Centre in 1992 as Research Fellow and from 1993-1996 she was also Senior Research Associate at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Her publications include the Routledge monographs The Ethics of Pregnancy, Abortion and Childbirth (2016) and Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics (2000), together with the edited collections Cooperation, Complicity and Conscience (2005), Incapacity and Care (2009), and Fertility and Gender (2011).  She has also published internationally in journals including the Journal of Medical Ethics and Clinical Ethics.  Her research interests include reproductive ethics, gender issues, action theory, and cooperation and conscientious objection.