After eight years of ethnographic research, I published Surrogacy in Russia: An Ethnography of Reproductive Labour, Stratification and Migration, and a comparative analysis of surrogacy practices across the USA, India and Russia.
The bookSample chapterComparative analysisHow birth partners — partners, spouses, sisters, mothers, aunties — prepare for the role of holding the space, advocating and caring, and how birth settings can be decolonised to honour the birth practices and knowledge of Global Majority families. Paused during maternity leave; recommencing in 2026.
Led by Prof Nicky Hudson at De Montfort University, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The motivations, decision-making and experiences of women who provide their eggs for infertility treatment in a European context.
Details and data setsAs access to treatment in China is restricted, citizens increasingly seek treatment abroad. This project examines new reproductive flows and what they mean for race and racism in assisted reproduction.
Read the first findingsHeterosexually-partnered men becoming fathers through surrogacy — their challenges and their advice to others.
InfographicResearch paperAn ethnographic study of migrant women's experiences donating eggs for financial compensation. Funded by the University of the West of England.
Redefining bioavailabilityNew technologies, intersectionality and inclusion politics in reproductive contexts.
A qualitative study of how messages like ‘Stay at home, Protect the NHS’, fear of infection and people’s sense-making of their own symptoms — strokes, TIAs and heart attacks — shaped whether, when and how they sought emergency care during COVID-19.
Read the publicationAs artificial amnion and placenta technology nears the point of oxygenating the lungs of extremely premature babies, this work asks what death is, and how the death of an entity sustained by AAPT would be characterised in law.
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