Dr Nicola Williams is Wellcome Lecturer in The Ethics of Human Reproduction in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University. Her research background is in the fields of Philosophy and Politics and her primary research interests concern questions of reproductive ethics, transplantation ethics, personal identity and intergenerational justice. Her most recent research has been funded by both Wellcome and the Leverhulme Trust. Between 2015 and 2019, she was a researcher on a Wellcome Senior Investigator award exploring various practices of reproductive donation from the perspectives of both ethics and law. Between 2019 and 2022 she held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship focussing on the philosophical and policy questions raised by novel forms of organ and tissue transplantation such as hand, face and uterus transplantation and since April 2022 she has been a lecturer on the Wellcome-funded Research Development Award: The Future of Human Reproduction. She has (co)-authored numerous publications exploring different topics in reproductive and transplantation ethics, ranging from the practical (e.g. questions of funding for reproductive tissue transplants, and policy exclusions for novel forms of tissue transplantation under opt-out organ donation policy) to the conceptual (e.g. work focussed on how we might understand worries regarding harm to future persons, and the moral principles which underlie the practice of living organ donation). She is also currently co-editing a book which brings together international legal and ethical perspectives on uterine transplantation. Nicola is currently senior deputy of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology Ethics and Law special interest group and she has a keen interest in public engagement and research dissemination activities related to her research.