Kathleen Stock is a contributing writer at UnHerd, a co-director of The Lesbian Project, and the author of Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism (Little Brown 2021). She has written for UK national newspapers on a range of issues. She was shortlisted for Columnist of the Year by the British Society of Magazine Editors in 2023; and for Tabloid Columnist of the Year at the 2024 Press Awards. In 2022 she was voted Prospect Magazine’s World Top Thinker. She was formerly a Professor of Philosophy at University of Sussex in the UK, and was awarded an OBE for services to higher education in 2020.