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Study of Gay Men’s Experiences of Surrogacy In spring and summer 2020, Marcin Smietana is carrying out interviews with gay men who live in the UK and who have pursued surrogacy, whether in the UK or overseas. He is interested in people’s stories about their paths to surrogacy and their experiences of it. Under the current...

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...

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...

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...