Nicky Hudson

Title: Dr
Family/Surname/Last Name: Hudson
First Names: Nicky
Current Job title: Senior Research Fellow
FTE: 1
Faculty/Institute: Health and Life Sciences
Department/School: Applied Social Sciences
DMU Research Centre: MSRC and HPRU
Research Group affiliations: Reproduction research (also MSRC, HPRU)

Contact Details
T: 0116 2078766
E: nhudson@dmuac.uk

Personal Profile: Nicky Hudson is a sociologist with an interest in health and illness experiences, medicine, reproduction, infertility, gender and ethnicity. She has worked on a number of projects on the social aspects of infertility and reproduction, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Department of Health and local NHS trusts. She was recently involved in the first UK-based study of cross-border fertility treatment. Her PhD was a study of the experience of involuntary childlessness and the use of assisted reproductive technologies in British South Asian communities.

Areas of Teaching

• Gender, health and healthcare
• Social Research Methods

Research Interests

• Sociology of health, illness and medicine
• Infertility and involuntary childlessness in British South Asian communities
• Cross-border fertility treatment 
• Egg, sperm and embryo donation
• Ageing and fertility  
• Researcher identity  
• Experiences of chronic illnesses
• User experiences of healthcare services
• Diversity

Research Expertise

• Qualitative methodologies (especially one-to-one interviews and focus groups)
• Collaborative research with minority ethnic communities

Externally Funded Research Grants Information

• Endometriosis: Improving the well-being of couples (ENDOPART). ESRC. January 2012-December 2012. Co-applicant with L Culley (PI), Helene Mitchell, Elaine Denny, Nick Raine-Fenning.
• Barriers and Motivators to Implementation of an Intradialytic Exercise Programme.British Renal Society. Research project. Sept 2011-Aug 2012. Co-applicant with Dr Alice Smith (PI), Dr James Burton, Dr Jo Byrne, Dr Noelle Robertson, Prof John Feehally.

• Management and Interventions for Asthma (MIA). NIHR National Institute for Health Research - Health Services Research Programme. Research project. Sept 09-Sept 12. Project team member with: Dr Monica Lakhanpaul (PI), Dr Deborah Bird, Prof. Lorraine Culley, Prof Mark Johnson, Prof. Jonathon Grigg, Mrs Narynder Johal, Dr Noelle Robertson, Mrs Melanie McFeeters, Mrs Joanne Wilson.

• A Systematic Review of the Literature on Asthma and South Asians. Asthma UK. Oct 2010-April 2011. Project advisor, with Dr Monica Lakhanpaul (PI), Co-applicants Dr Deborah Bird, Prof Lorraine Culley, Prof Mark Johnson.

• The Educational Experiences of Muslim Students on Pre-Registration Nursing and Midwifery Programmes. East Midlands Healthcare Workforce Deanery, June 2009-July 2011. Co-investigator with Dr Sue Dyson (PI), Prof. Lorraine Culley.

• Transnational Reproduction. An exploratory study of UK residents who travel abroad for fertility treatment(TRANSREP) ESRC. Research project. 1 March 2009 – 30 Nov 2010. Co- applicant and project researcher, with Prof. Lorraine Culley (PI), Dr Allan Pacey, Prof. Eric Blyth, Prof Frances Rapport, Ms Wendy Norton. 

• Regional Evaluation of the Pacesetters Programme (PACEVAL). Leicester City Primary Care Trust. May 2008 – October 2009. Co-investigator with Prof. Mark Johnson, Prof. Lorraine Culley, Jennie Fleming and Dr Fenglin Guo.

• Palliative Care for Children and Young People in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland: An evaluation of parents/carers’ and young people’s perspectives of service provision. (PALLCARE) Leicester City West Primary Care Trust, February – September 2006. Co-investigator with Prof Lorraine Culley (PI).

• Evaluation of Patient Information resources on Osteomalacia in Asian Languages (ARCOST) Arthritis Research Campaign, 2005-2006. Co-investigator with Prof. Mark Johnson (PI), Dr. Ash Samanta, Prof. Lorraine Culley, Dr. Fenglin Guo, Abdur Rauf.

• Public Perceptions of Gamete Donation in British South Asian Communities (GAMDON) ESRC, April 05 – March 06. Project Researcher, with Prof. Lorraine Culley (PI), Prof. Frances Rapport, Prof. Mark Johnson, Dr. Adi Bharadwaj. RES-160-25-0044.

• Improving the Access of Ethnic Minority Visually Impaired People to Appropriate Services: Building a Supported Community Referral System (OV2) Thomas Pocklington Trust, 2003-2004. With Prof. Mark Johnson (PI), Jennie Fleming.

• Europe's Migrants and Human Tissue Donation - ESF Exploratory Workshop (EUMIDON) European Science Foundation, September 2004. With Prof. Mark Johnson, Prof. Lorraine Culley.

• A Study of the Provision of Infertility Services to South Asian Communities (ASFERT) NHS Trent Region, January 2002 – March 2004. Project Researcher, with Prof. Lorraine Culley (PI), Prof. Mark Johnson, Dr Savita Katbamna, Prof. Frances Rapport. Patient information in South Asian languages developed from this research can be found here: http://www.dmu.ac.uk/faculties/hls/nursingmidwifery/resource/index.jsp  

Consultancy/External Income Generation Information:

• Consultancyprovided to NHS Leicester City for the service development project: ‘Bangladeshi Maternity Users: Pregnancy and You’. Nov 2009-March 2010.

http://www.leicestercity.nhs.uk/Library/DVDsupports.pdf

Outputs

• Hudson, N. Culley, L. Rapport, F. Johnson, M. Bharadwaj, A. (2009) ‘“Public” perceptions of gamete donation: a research review’ Public Understanding of Science, 18 (1): 61-77
• Culley, L. & Hudson, N. (2009) ‘Fertility Tourists or Global Consumers? A Sociological Agenda for Exploring Cross-Border Reproductive Travel’, International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 10 (4): 139-150.
• Culley, L. and Hudson, N. (2009) ‘Constructing relatedness: Ethnicity, gender and third party assisted conception in the UK’, Current Sociology vol 57 no 2, Monograph 1 pp257-275  
• Culley, L. Hudson, N. & Van Rooij, F. (eds) (2009) Marginalized Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and New Reproductive Technologies. Earthscan.
• Culley, L. Hudson, N. Van Rooij, F. (2009) ‘Introduction: Ethnicity, infertility and assisted reproductive technologies’ in Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson & Floor van Rooij (eds) (2009) Marginalized Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and New Reproductive Technologies. Earthscan.
• Culley, L. & Hudson, N. (2009) ‘Commonalities, differences and possibilities: culture and infertility in British South Asian communities’ in Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson & Floor van Rooij (eds) (2009) Marginalized
• Reproduction: Ethnicity, Infertility and New Reproductive Technologies. Earthscan.
• Fleming, J. and Hudson, N. (2009) ‘Young People and Research Participation’, in J. Wood and J. Hine (Eds.) Work with Young People: Theory and Policy for Practice, London: Sage (pp. 136-151)
• Hudson, N. Culley, L. Blyth, E. Norton, W. Pacey, A. (in press) Cross-border reproductive care: A review of the literature. Reproductive Bio-medicine Online.
• Culley, L & Hudson, N (2010) Why do people travel abroad for fertility treatment? What we don’t know. Journal of Fertility Counselling 17 (1): 64-67.
• Culley, L. & Hudson, N. (2010) ‘“For him, it’s got to be your own son”: Adoption and infertility in British South Asian communities’. In Crawshaw and Balen Adopting After Infertility. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.

Recent presentations:

• Hudson, N. (presenter) & Culley, L. ‘‘She has what I want and I’ve perhaps got a little bit of what she wants’: Constructing the egg donor in transnational reproduction’ paper presented to the International Sociological Association World Congress of Sociology, 11-17th July, 2010, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• Hudson, N. (presenter) ‘Negotiating the community context: British South Asian women, stigma, agency and assisted reproductive technologies’ paper presented to Society for Applied Anthropology Society, 70th Annual Meeting, Vulnerabilities and Exclusion in Globalization. March 24-27, 2010 Mérida, México
• Hudson, N. (presenter) & Culley, L. ‘Globalizing Biomedicine: creating babies across borders’ paper presented to Society for Applied Anthropology Society, 70th Annual Meeting, Vulnerabilities and Exclusion in Globalization. March 24-27, 2010 Mérida, México

Editorial Boards/Reviewing Activities
Reviewer for: European Journal of Public Health, Ethnicity and Health, Sociological Compass, Diversity in Health and Care, Journal of Biosocial Science, Human Fertility, The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Culture Health and Sexuality.

Membership of Professional Associations & Societies
Member of International Sociological Association, Member of British Sociological Association

Current Research Student Supervisions

• Kylie Baldwin: An exploratory study of egg freezing for non-medical reasons
• Raksha Pandya: Understanding the impact of patient involvement in the research process
• Doreen Crawford: The experiences of fathers who have infant/s admitted to the neonatal unit
• Wendy Norton: Gay men, fatherhood and assisted conception