Centre for Reproduction Research projects

Reproduction in the age of genomic medicine: the emergence, commercialisation and implications of preconception expanded carrier screening. 

Dr Cathy Herbrand (PI)

CIs: Professor Nicky Hudson, Professor Pascal Borry, Professor Bronwyn Parry, Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka

Consultant: Professor Lorraine Culley

Research Fellow: Dr Kriss Fearon

Research Assistant: Lucina Wilde

Partner: Progress Educational Trust

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

(2023 - 2026)

Contact: Dr Cathy Herbrand, cathy.herbrand@dmu.ac.uk

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing and donor-conception: support and governance in emerging digital systems

Dr Lucy Frith (PI)

CIs: Professor Marie Fox, Professor Nicky Hudson, Dr Petra Nordqvist, Dr Jackson Kirkman-Brown, Dr Fiona Jane MacCallum

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council

(2020  - 2023)

Contact: Dr Lucy Frith, L.J.Frith@liverpool.ac.uk

Covid-19 and Reproductive Digest

Dr Christina Weis (PI)

(2020  - present)

Contact: Dr Christina Weis, Christina.weis@dmu.ac.uk 

Heterosexual partnered men’s experiences of becoming fathers through surrogacy

Dr Christina Weis (co-PI) and Dr Wendy Norton (co-PI) 

Funded by DMU Health and Life Sciences Research Development Fund.

(2019  - present)

Contact: Dr Christina Weis, Christina.weis@dmu.ac.uk

Endometriosis: Utilising CRR research evidence to enhance awareness, care, management and support for women and their partners

Professor Nicky Hudson (co-PI), Professor Lorraine Culley (co-PI), Caroline Law, (co-PI),  Dr Helene Mitchell (co-PI),and Dr Wendy Norton (co-PI) 

(2015  - present)

Contact: Caroline Law, Claw@dmu.ac.uk 

Discontinuing fertility treatment: Using experience based co-design to enhance patient support - Kelly Da Silva

1st supervisor Dr Kylie Baldwin

2nd supervisors Professor Nicky Hudson and Dr Esmee Hanna

2021  - ongoing

An ethnographic study of the social, cultural and biomedical construction of menopause in Punjab, Pakistan - Sumaira Rashid

1st supervisor Professor Nicky Hudson

2nd supervisors Dr Cathy Herbrand and Dr Wendy Norton

2018 - ongoing