Expert Advisory Group
The Future of Human Reproduction Expert Advisory Group (EAG) plays a vital role in helping to shape our research, and brings a valuable and diverse range of perspectives to the programme.
Find out more about our EAG members below.
Professor Gabriele Griffin, Uppsala University
Gabriele Griffin is Professor of Gender Research at the Centre for Gender Research, Uppsala University, and Extraordinary Professor for Africa and Gender Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa. Her research focuses on women in research and innovation, gender and technology, female entrepreneurs, women’s cultural production, feminist research methodologies, non-normative identities, and higher education and disciplinization.
Professor Clare Hanson, University of Southampton
Clare Hanson is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Southampton. Her current research focuses on multi-species worlds as they are represented in the biological sciences and in literary and science fiction. It links the contemporary interest in multi-species entanglements, evident in a slew of popular science books and TED talks, with a shift away from the neo-Darwinian theory which had such profound cultural influence in the run-up to the completion of the Human Genome Project. Her books include Genetics and the Literary Imagination (2020), Eugenics, Literature and Culture in Post-war Britain (2012) and A Cultural History of Pregnancy: Pregnancy, Medicine and Culture 1750-2000 (2004).
Professor Emily Jackson (OBE), London School of Economics
Emily Jackson is Professor of Law at The London School of Economics. Her research interests are in the field of medical law and ethics, with particular emphasis upon reproductive issues, end of life decision-making and the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry. She has published monographs entitled Medical Law: Text, Cases and Materials, Law and the Regulation of Medicines, and Regulating Reproduction: Law, Technology and Autonomy.
Mr Benjamin Jones MRCOG, Lister Fertility Clinic
Mr Benjamin Jones is Consultant Gynaecologist and Fertility Specialist at the Lister Fertility Clinic. He holds honorary consultant positions at Imperial College NHS Foundation Trust and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. He is the Principal Investigator of the ‘Investigational Study Into Transplantation of the Uterus’ at Imperial for the UK deceased donor research trial and coordinates the living donor programme. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed publications and lectures internationally on uterus transplantation and other aspects of reproductive medicine.
Freddy McConnell, Freelance Writer and Journalist
Freddy McConnel is a freelance journalist for The Guardian, Vice and elsewhere. He works in audio and video documentary as a presenter and writer, and is a published children’s book author. Freddy is also a member of the media advocacy organisation All About Trans and founder of the nonprofit Equality for Trans Families.
Sarah Norcross, Progress Educational Trust
Sarah Norcross is Director of the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and Commissioning Editor of its flagship publication BioNews. Sarah is also a Trustee at the British Fertility Society (BFS), Chair of the BFS Special Interest Group on Law, Policy and Ethics, and an External Adviser to the University of Cambridge’s Reproduction Strategic Research Initiative.
Sarah serves on the National Infertility Group convened by the Scottish Government, and on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s Patient Organisation Stakeholder Group.
Katharine Wright, Freelance Ethics Consultant
Katharine Wright is a freelance ethics consultant, currently working with the WHO Ethics and Governance Unit, the MRCT Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard, and the Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal. She is also a member of the BMJ Ethics Committee. Before moving into this freelance role, she spent fifteen years as Assistant Director of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, directing projects on the ethical aspects of a wide range of policy issues, including ageing and dementia, the inclusion of children in research, the conduct of research in global health emergencies, the donation of bodily materials, and the promotion of cosmetic procedures.
Dr Min Yong, University of Bradford
Dr Min Yong is Assistant Professor at the University of Bradford. She is a Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society). She is interested in social cognition (e.g. Theory-of-Mind) and executive function in older adults. She also has a keen interest in using mobile phones and virtual reality as a possible tool to examine wellbeing and loneliness in adults. Her work is primarily an experimental quantitative approach.