Helen Beddow

Helen is the journals and books publisher for Gender and Diversity at Emerald publishing, and is proud to be one of the very few full-time publishers commissioning in this area.

She completed her PhD in Earth Geosciences in 2016 at Utrecht University, before making the switch to academic publishing. 

Having come from the least diverse field in STEM, Helen has first-hand experience of the long-standing issues around gender and diversity in academia and understands that publishers have a vital role to play in supporting the research industry to make changes. 

Helen is actively involved in STRIDE, Emeralds in-house inclusion group, and will take over as co-chair in 2019.