Rosie Beauchamp is a Volunteer} at the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and a Volunteer Writer at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. She graduated in Religious Studies from the University of Edinburgh, where she wrote a dissertation on the representation of religious voices in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority's Review of Hybrids and Chimeras. After working with the Young Foundation on its UpRising leadership programme, she embarked on an MSc in Biomedicine, Bioscience and Society at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where she is currently writing a dissertation on the effects of direct-to-consumer genetic testing on concepts of ethnicity.