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ReproSoc

Reproductive Sociology Research Group
 

Lucy van de Wiel has joined the Alan Turing Institute for data science as a Turing Fellow. Alongside her work at ReproSoc, she will spend a portion of her time at the Turing Institute at the British Library, London. This affiliation will benefit her new research project on the datafication of reproduction, which deals with the intersection of data technologies and reproductive technologies. This research explores how reproductive decisions such as which embryo to implant in the womb are increasingly made in conjunction with data technologies and the large data sets they generate. It is primarily concerned with data-driven embryo selection technologies, such as time-lapse embryo imaging and pre-implantation genetic screening. The project both considers the role of these technologies in patients' and medical professionals' treatment experiences and characterises the broader political-economic and socio-cultural drivers of their emergence in contemporary IVF.

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