Barbara Dunn (BA Hons, MA, DF Astrol S, QHP, FAPAI, PhD) began her career as a postgraduate at the London School of Economics, supported by a Social Science Research Council scholarship, before moving into astrology. She received the Faculty of Astrological Studies Diploma in 1988 and the Qualifying Horary Practitioner (QHP) qualification in 1990, going on to teach alongside QHP founder Olivia Barclay and being appointed QHP Head Tutor. She inherited the QHP from Barclay upon her death in 2001 and continues to teach and mentor QHP students worldwide as Principal. A grant from the Urania Trust supported the writing of her book and a further grant funded an MA in History at the University of Exeter, completed with distinction in 2016. A Wellcome Trust doctoral studentship later funded a PhD in the History of Medicine, examining the use of astrology in seventeenth-century medical practice, completed in 2021. A monograph on early modern medical astrology is currently in preparation for Springer. She is a Fellow of APAI.