Award Holders
The Future of Human Reproduction team is delighted to announce investment in six research projects exploring future reproductive technologies from a range of disciplinary perspectives.
Following a competitive application process, we’ve made six awards in total: three from our Small Research Grants Scheme; and three from our Visiting Collaborators Scheme. Projects range from a theatre production exploring the ethics of CRISPR-cas9 technology to empirical research into the clinical translation challenges of artificial placenta technology.
Find out more about our grant holders and their projects below.
Small Research Grants
Principal Investigator: Dr Katherine Furman, University of Liverpool
Co-Investigator: Professor Thomas Schramme, University of Liverpool
Research Associate: Megan Rawson, University of Liverpool
Project Title: Normative Implications of the Metaphysics of Extra-Corporeal Gestation
Using the current philosophical debate about the metaphysics of pregnancy as a springboard, this project will investigate what ectogenesis might mean for the ‘parthood’ versus ‘container’ model of pregnancy.
Principal Investigator: Professor Jerome de Groot, University of Manchester
Project Title: The Bell Curves
In collaboration with the Contact Theatre in Manchester, ‘The Bell Curves’ involves the development of a cutting-edge theatre performance focusing on gene editing and new reproductive technologies.
Principal Investigator: Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Durham University
Co-Investigator: Victoria Adkins, University of Greenwich
Project Title: Values in the Design and Development of Artificial Placenta Technologies
This research will consider the clinical translation challenges of artificial placenta technologies by conducting interviews with potential users of the technology, biomedical engineers and scientists.
Visiting Collaborators
Principal Investigator: Victoria Adkins, University of Greenwich
As a Visiting Collaborator, Victoria will disseminate her research findings on healthcare professionals’ views on partial ectogenesis through a series of seminars.
Principal Investigator: Dr Anna McFarlane, University of Leeds
Through an interactive event, collaborative seminars, and a film screening, Anna will consider how contemporary science fiction understands and interrogates the future possibilities for human reproduction.
Principal Investigator: Dr Elizabeth Chloe Romanis, Durham University
During her visits, Chloe will share research from her forthcoming monograph Biology, Gestation and the Law and consider how it might contribute to the bigger question of how novel reproductive technologies may impact, and disrupt, binary conceptions of biological sex.