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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.

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, as a same-sex couple, ‘you can’t have a child by accident’.

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.

Our affiliated scholar and fertility historian Dr Yuliya Hilevych was on BBC Woman's Hour this week discussing 'Mary’s Babies', a fictional play based on the true story of Mary Barton, a fertility treatment pioneer who set up a ground-breaking fertility clinic in London alongside her husband in the 1930s.