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Sexual identities and reproductive orientations: Coming out as wanting (or not wanting) to have children - New Article by Robert Pralat

16 June 2020

We are excited to announce that the article ' Sexual identities and reproductive orientations: Coming out as wanting (or not wanting) to have children', written by our Research Associate and Leverhulme Early Career Fellow Robert Pralat, has just been published is available open access . Sexual identities and reproductive...

Call for Papers ‘Rethinking Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis’

Call for Papers ‘Queer Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis’

1 April 2020

Call for Papers ‘Queer Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis’ University of Cambridge, Department of Sociology, October 2020 From Silvia Federici to Angela Davis, marxist feminist theorists of political economy have demonstrated the historical contingency of the hierarchical sexual and...

The speculative turn in IVF: egg freezing and the financialization of fertility - New Article by Lucy van de Wiel

31 March 2020

We are excited to announce that the article 'The speculative turn in IVF: egg freezing and the financialization of fertility', written by our Research Associate Lucy van de Wiel , has just been published in New Genetics and Society and is available open access . The speculative turn in IVF: egg freezing and the...

Dish Life: The Game is released on iOS, Android & Steam

25 February 2020

Part-Sims, part-Tamagotchi game puts players in the shoes of a budding stem cell researcher as they progress from undergraduate student to professor "Dish Life" is a new free-to-play game developed by researchers from ReproSoc (Reproductive Sociology Research Group) and the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute , and produced by...

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology publishes POSTnote co-authored by Amarpreet Kaur

27 January 2020

Last week, a four-page briefing document for MPs and Peers, aka a POSTnote, co-authored by Amarpreet Kaur (now a 3 rd year PhD Student with ReproSoc) was published by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) where she undertook a fellowship last year. The POSTnote on Human Germline Genome Editing provides...

The datafication of reproduction: time‐lapse embryo imaging and the commercialisation of IVF - new article by Lucy van de Wiel in The Sociology of Health and Illness

18 October 2019

A new article by Lucy van de Wiel, The datafication of reproduction: time‐lapse embryo imaging and the commercialisation of IVF, is now out in the Digital Health special issue of the Sociology of Health and Illness. 'The 21st century has witnessed the emergence of in silico reproduction alongside the familiar in vitro...

Parenthood as intended: Reproductive responsibility, moral judgements and having children ‘by accident’ – new article by Robert Pralat in The Sociological Review

2 August 2019

A new article by Robert Pralat is now out in The Sociological Review . “ Parenthood as intended: Reproductive responsibility, moral judgements and having children ‘by accident ’” explores meanings of a particular comment that, in Robert’s interviews with lesbians and gay men, women in particular often made unprompted: that...

Dr Noémie Merleau-Ponty Awarded Permanent "Associate Scientist" Position by CNRS

31 July 2019

We are delighted to share the news that Noémie Merleau-Ponty has been successful at the CNRS competition and will take up a position as "associate scientist” in France in the coming academic year. We will truly miss Noémie, who has been a core member of ReproSoc since 2016, but are so pleased she has received this...

Chloe Sariego awarded PhD studentship at Yale

24 April 2019

Congratulations to ReproSoc MPhil student Chloe Sariego for the award of a 6 year fully funded PhD student to the Sociology Department at Yale University where she will be supervised for her dissertation by Dr Rene Almeling. Well done Chloe!!!! You can read Chloe's moving and insightful account of some of the questions and...

New Article by Noémie Merleau-Ponty - A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists

12 March 2019

Noémie Merleau Ponty has published a new article, A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists, with Taylor and Francis Online, which is available with open access . Abstract Stem cell basic science has sparked a lot of attention because of its use of cells coming from ‘...

Sexual identities and reproductive orientations: Coming out as wanting (or not wanting) to have children - New Article by Robert Pralat

Call for Papers ‘Queer Feminist Approaches to Social Reproduction in the Environmental Crisis’

The speculative turn in IVF: egg freezing and the financialization of fertility - New Article by Lucy van de Wiel

Dish Life: The Game is released on iOS, Android & Steam

Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology publishes POSTnote co-authored by Amarpreet Kaur

The datafication of reproduction: time‐lapse embryo imaging and the commercialisation of IVF - new article by Lucy van de Wiel in The Sociology of Health and Illness

Parenthood as intended: Reproductive responsibility, moral judgements and having children ‘by accident’ – new article by Robert Pralat in The Sociological Review

Dr Noémie Merleau-Ponty Awarded Permanent "Associate Scientist" Position by CNRS

Chloe Sariego awarded PhD studentship at Yale

New Article by Noémie Merleau-Ponty - A Hierarchy of Deaths: Stem Cells, Animals and Humans Understood by Developmental Biologists

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