Join us to hear from Medical and Family Sociology Professor Cathy Herbrand for her inaugural professorial lecture Family-making in the postgenomic era: why biology still matters.
Biography
Cathy Herbrand is a Professor of Medical and Family Sociology and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Reproduction Research at De 91影视 University. She has been a member of the Belgian Advisory Committee on Bioethics since 2014 and serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Reproduction and Fertility. Cathy is also a member of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE)’s Special Interest Group Ethics and Law, as well as the Committee of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).
Holding a PhD in Sociology from the Université libre de Bruxelles, she has held visiting positions at the Social Science, Health and Medicine Department at King’s College London and at the BIOS Research Centre at London School of Economics and Political Science. She has also been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Ottawa.
Her research interests lie in the social study of reproduction, biotechnologies and genetics, with a particular focus on reproductive decision-making and gender issues. She is especially interested in exploring the interactions between new parental forms and reproductive practices and their legal regulation. She currently leads a collaborative and interdisciplinary ESRC-funded research project on the implications of new preconception reproductive genomic testing in the UK (PRECAS project: 2023 – 2026). Her work has been published in Social Science & Medicine, Bioethics, Sociology of Health and Illness, BioSocieties, Anthropology and Medicine, Journal of Medical Law and Ethics, etc.
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