Helen Joyce

Announcing our first speaker event of the year: Helen Joyce!

Helen will be speaking to us about her fascinating and episodic career, from academia to journalism to advocacy. Given her experience in so many different fields, several of which are majority-male, she has a wealth of knowledge and advice to offer young women beginning their careers. This event will feature an extended Q&A session and (of course!) a pub trip afterwards.

More about Helen:

Helen Joyce is author of “TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality”, (recently reissued
 as “Trans: Gender Identity and the New Battle for Women’s Rights”). A Times of London and Spectator book of the year, it is a UK and Amazon top ten bestseller. It received rave reviews in publications ranging from the Telegraph to the New York Times, and endorsements from, among others, Daniel Dennett (“A sane, humane book”), Lionel Shriver (“Utterly unintimidated by extremist orthodoxy”) and Richard Dawkins (“Thoroughly researched, passionate and very brave”).

Until April 2022, Helen was The Economist’s Britain editor. She joined the paper in 2005 as education correspondent; subsequent jobs include Brazil correspondent (based in São Paulo), International editor, Finance editor and Executive editor for events. Before that she edited Plus, an online magazine about maths published by the University of Cambridge, and was founding editor for the Royal Statistical Society’s magazine, Significance. She has a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College Dublin, a Master’s from Cambridge and a PhD from University College London, all in mathematics.

Helen now works as director of advocacy for Sex Matters, a human-rights charity that campaigns for sex-based rights. Her independent journalism and subscription newsletter can be found on her website: thehelenjoyce.com. She writes a regular column in the Critic magazine and tweets @hjoycegender. In non-gender-related work, she provides messaging guidance and media training to a variety of public and private-sector organisations and individuals, with a special focus on navigating difficult and hostile interviews.