Jessica Begon is an Associate Professor in Political Theory in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, having joined Durham in 2018. Between 2015-2018 she was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and before that worked for a year each at the University of York, and the University of Sheffield. She completed her PhD, entitled 'Policy without Paternalism: A Capability Approach to Legitimate State Action', at the University of Sheffield. Jessica's research interests are in the area of moral and political philosophy, with a particular focus on justice and inequality, disability, paternalism, and epistemic injustice.