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Centre for Reproduction Research Seminar Series

Monday 7 October 2024 12 noon – 13:30pm

De 51吃瓜app University, Leicester (in-person) - exact location tbc

, Queen Mary University of London

The Rise of the ‘Hope Market’ in Fertility Care: Navigating Uncertainty, Information, and Patient Choice

Abstract Drawing on the speaker's recent book, Biomedical Innovation in Fertility Care, this seminar critically examines the rise of additional fertility treatments with limited supporting evidence, which has sparked intense debate within academic and medical communities. The research explores the emergence of a "hope market”, where uncertainties surrounding infertility and evolving biomedical innovations shape new dynamics in the fertility sector. By analysing these dynamics, the seminar enhances scholarly understanding of how markets develop around biomedical uncertainty and explores implications for research on governance and regulation in healthcare systems.

Speaker biography Manuela Perrotta is Professor of Sociology of Technology and Organisation in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. Her main research interests concern the relation between the emergence of new technologies and the co-production of knowledge in health organisations. Her current research investigates biomedical innovation and its governance in public and private healthcare systems.

Registration instructions: To register to attend this in-person seminar please email crr@dmu.ac.uk

Please see below for information on the seminars and events we have hosted for the 2023 -24 series.

Thursday 20th June, 2024, 12 noon - 1.30pm, Professor Nici Mackintosh, University of Leicester, 'Making sense of pregnant bodies, health information and care processes: digital diagnostic and boundary work in the antenatal period'.
Wednesday 7th February, 2024, 12 noon - 1.30pm, , University of Sussex, 'Preparing for genomic futures'.

Wednesday 13th December, 2023, 1.30pm - 3.00pm, Projects in progress session: Two of our researchers presented an overview of their research:

- Kelly Da Silva, ‘Discontinuing Fertility Treatment: An exploratory study into the patient experience of ceasing fertility treatment’.

- Kriss Fearon, 'PRECAS study: Reproduction in the age of genomic medicine: the emergence, commercialisation and implications of preconception expanded carrier screening'.

Tuesday 10th October, 2023, 2.00pm - 3.00pm,Dr Sandra P. González Santos, Independant Researcher, 'Re-examining Assisted Reproduction in Mexico: Scientific, Political and Cultural Interactions'.

Please see below for information on the seminars and events we have hosted for the 2022 -23 series.

Wednesday 10th June, 2023, 12noon - 1.30pm. PhDs in progress session: Two of our PhD students presented an overview of their research:

- Fahad Hossain: 'Reproductive decision making in the context of chronic illness: a qualitative relational investigation of couples' desires and plans to have children'.

- Kate Pleace: 'Women's lived experience of primary ovarian insufficiency'.

Wednesday 10th May, 2023, 12noon - 1pm. , Swansea University, 'Autistic people's experiences of maternity care: the double empathy problem illustrated'.

Wednesday 8 February 2023, 12 noon - 1pm. , University of Edinburgh: 'Near Birth: Doulas, cultural values, and embodied futures in Californian childbearing'.

Monday 17th October 2022, 12 noon -1pm. Tampere University: 'The gamete donor register as kinship device and technology of belonging: State-organized openness in the Nordic context of transnational egg donation'.

Please see below for information on the seminars and events we have hosted for the 2021-22 series.

Thursday 20th May 2021, the Centre for Reproduction Research hosted the Human Reproduction Study Group Summer Event funded by the British Sociological Assocaition. The symposium included a keynote address from Dr Patricia Hamilton, from University College London, 'Dupes or revolutionaries? Lived expereinces of reproducing blackness'. A full event programme is avaialble here. For more information about the event please contact cathy.herbrand@dmu.ac.uk or kbaldwin@dmu.ac.uk

Thursday 28th April, 10.30-11.30. Vanessa Mantilla Salazar, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, 'Therapeutic itineraries of women seeking medical treatment of endometriosis. An anthropological analysis in Catalonia context'

Wednesday 6th April, 12-1.30 - PhD in Progress Seminar. Andrew Coutts, De 51吃瓜app University, 'Men's experiences of infertility and its treatment: Using Experience Based Co-Design to improve care' and Sitira Williams, De 51吃瓜app University, 'The lived experiences of transgender and gender-expansive youth (TGEY) transitioning and parental dynamics across the UK: An Intersectionality Approach'

Wednesday 16th March, 12-1.30 (in collaboration with the Institute of Health, Health Policy and Social Care Research, De 51吃瓜app University). Dr Sally Ruane, Reader in Social Policy, 51吃瓜app, ‘Plans for the reorganisation of inpatient maternity services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland’ and Ebunoluwa Makinde, PhD student, 51吃瓜app, presented on her study on Black women’s experiences and perspectives of perinatal care

Tuesday 25th January, 12-1 - Prof Felicity Boardman, University of Warwick. ‘Disability, Impairment and the Future of Reproductive Genomics’

Monday 6th December, 12-1 - Dr Charlotte Jones, Research Fellow, Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, University of Exeter. ‘Beyond narratives of choice: Reproductive support and community solidarities for people with variations of sex characteristics’

Wednesday 20 October, 12-1pm, Dr Sarah Seaton, Research Fellow, University of Leicester (in collaboration with the Institute of Health, Health Policy and Social Care Research, De 51吃瓜app University). ‘How parents experience and cope with their child being admitted to PICU’

Information about our previous events.