October 2026: Our latest article is now available, open access, in Sociology of Health and Illness. It it titled, ‘The Politics of Reproductive Signification: Navigating Legal Definitions of Parenthood in the Context of UK Informal Donor Conception‘. In it, we…
September 2026: Leah travelled to Birmingham to speak at the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists Symposium. She made the case that, whilst all ARCS members will likely be working in licensed clinics, the project’s finding are highly relevant to…
April 2026: This month Leah presented a draft of a paper which she is writing with Lexie at the British Sociological Association’s Annual Conference in Manchester. The paper explores how donors and recipients work attempt to managing the meaning of…
April 2026: Presenting at the Donor Conception Network’s spring conference, Leah drew on findings from the Digital Donor Conception study, as well a previous work, to discuss parents’ perspectives on getting to know donor relatives. She shared data from this…
Jan 2026: Our first peer-reviewed publication from the Digital Donor Conception study is now available (open access) on Human Fertility. It explores the different ways in which digital technologies shape possibilities for donors and recipient families to know one another.…
Read our December 2025 research update for news on project progress, a very brief overview of findings and details of presentations, publications and outputs in the last year.
August 2025: This week Leah submitted evidence from the project to the NHS Evidence Review of LGBT+ Health which was commissioned by the Department for Health and Social Care. You can download and read the full submission below. Details of…
Have a read of our latest research update for news about the project transfer to Manchester Metropolitan University, recent conference presentations and our progress with interviews and analysis.
October 2024 Lexie and Leah had the honour of hosting two international visitors to The University of Sheffield this month. Dr Rosemond Hiadzi, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Ghana and Dr Giselle Newton, Research Fellow in the…
June 2024 In this blog post, PI, Leah Gilman argues that the ‘just say no’ approach evident in many ‘official’ responses to informal donor conception is inadequate. Instead we must listen to the experiences of parents, donors, donor conceived people…