The University of Manchester's Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy, Helen Beebee studied at Warwick (BA), Liverpool (MA) and King's College London (PhD). She has held positions at Edinburgh (1994-5), St. Andrews (1995-6), UCL (1996-7), the Australian National University (1997-9), and Birmingham (2005-12).
She is an associate editor of the British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, was Director of the British Philosophical Assocation from 2007 to 2011 and is co-chair of the BPA/Society for Women in Philosophy (UK) Committee for Women in Philosophy.