Mrs Jessica Turner

Jessica Turner is a Research Assistant within the School of Applied Social Sciences and the Centre for Reproduction Research. Jess has a MRes in Applied Health Research and a BA in Sociology. Her research interests include women's health and reproduction and chronic illness.

Her role as research assistant at the Centre for Reproduction Research includes data collection and analysis, bid-writing, organising conferences and seminars and supporting the work of the Centre for Reproduction Research.

Jess has also been involved in carryng out an ethnographic study as part of an NIHR funded research project with colleagues from the Leicester Diabetes Centre and The University of Leicester, led by Professor Melanie Davies.

Prior to her role at De Montfort University, Jess was employed as a Research and Policy Officer at Healthwatch Derby, carrying out qualitative and quantitative research involving patients and the public around health and social care services in the city of Derby.

Centre for Reproduction Research

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Turner, J. 2017. Book Review: Conceiving Masculinitiy: Male Infertility, Medicine and Identity by Liberty Walther Barnes, Men and Masculinities, 20, (1), pp. 126 - 128.

• Qualitative research
• Digital sociology
• Sociology of health and illness
• Women's health and reproduction
• Chronic illness

MRes in Applied Health Research (Dissertation: 'Reproducing and resisting dominant discourses of pregnancy and early motherhood on social media')

BA (Hons) Sociology

Member of the organising committee for the BSA East Midlands Medical Sociology Group.

Selected Conferences

Turner, J. 'Ethical mothering on social media'. BSA Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference. University College London, London, 22nd June 2023.

Turner, J. 'Reproducing and resisting the dominant discourses of pregnancy and early motherhood on social media – a thematic analysis'. Society of Reproductive and Infant Psychology Annual Conference (Online), 8th-10th September, 2021.

Turner, J. 'Reproducing and resisting dominant discourses of pregnancy and early motherhood on social media'. Centre for Reproduction Research Seminar Series. De Montfort University, Leicester, 23rd March, 2021.

Turner, J. Poster Presentation: 'Pregnancy, Social Media and Identity'. Pregnancy, Maternity, and the Self - Interdisciplinary Conference. University of Southampton, Southampton, 21st June 2019.

Turner, J. 'Pregnancy, Social Media and Identity'. BSA Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference. De Montfort University, Leicester, 12th June 2019.

Eborall H, Hudson N, Martin G, Shaw E, Turner J. ‘Embedding structured education for self-management of Type 2 diabetes in primary care - an NPT informed analysis’, paper presented at the BSA Medical Sociology Conference, University of York, 13-15 September 2017.

Turner, J. 'Normalisation Process Theory: A useful framework to inform the development, implementation and evaluation of complex interventions?' Health Policy Research Unit.  De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 8th December 2016.

Turner, J and Hudson, N. "I was secretly hoping to have twins because I knew it was my one chance": Negotiating risks around multiple births in cross border reproductive care'. BSA Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference. De Montfort University, Leicester, 10th June 2016.

Turner, J. and Hudson, N. "They don't make the moral decisions for you": decision-making about embryo transfer and perceptions of multiple pregnancies amongst recipients of overseas fertility treatment'. Reproduction Research Group Seminar Series. De Montfort University, Leicester, 6th April 2016.

Increasing uptake of effective self-management education programmes for type 2 diabetes in multi-ethnic primary care settings. (Research Assistant to ethnographic component). NIHR £2m. Programme Grants for Applied Research. PI: Professor Melanie Davies, University Hospitals of Leicester. Nov 2015-Oct 2020.

'EDNA’ - Egg donation in the UK, Spain and Belgium: an interdisciplinary study. Building Impact. £3861. Higher Education Investment Fund, DMU. Hudson (PI), Culley, Herbrand, Weis, Loyal, Fearon, Turner. 2020.

Editor for The Centre for Reproduction Research Blog, DMU

Open Access Champion for The Centre for Reproduction Research and the School of Applied Social Sciences, DMU.