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** Apologies for cross posting**

 

Dear all

 

Please find attached details of the BSA Human Reproduction Winter event ‘Abortion: past, present and future’.

 

The event is being held at De Montfort University, Leicester on Monday 5th December.

This half day event brings together three invited speakers from Sociology, History and Reproductive Health to examine the past, present and future of abortion in the UK and to illustrate the centrality of abortion to wider understandings of women’s position in society.

 

Invited speakers

 Dr Pam Lowe, Aston University

 Dr Clare Parker, University of Kent

 Dr Lesley Hoggart, The Open University

 

Presentation titles and abstracts will be circulated in due course.

Online booking now open- https://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10605

 

Many thanks

 

Kylie Baldwin

 

Senior Lecturer

Health Studies and Sociology

Reproduction Research Group

 

Allied Health Sciences

Hawthorn Building  0.18

De Montfort University

Faculty of Health & Life Sciences

The Gateway

Leicester

LE1 9BH

 

T: 01162577735

E: [log in to unmask]

W: http://dmu.academia.edu/KylieBaldwin

Twitter@DrKylieBaldwin

 

 

Office hours by appointment Tuesday and Thursdays 9-11.

 

 


From: Reproduction Research Group
Sent: 19 October 2016 15:50
To: Aveen Haji Maam; Bernadette Gregory; Caroline Law; Cathy Herbrand; Charlotte Powell; Christina Weis; Deborah Bamber; Helene Mitchell; Irenee Daly; Jessica Turner; Kriss Fearon; Kylie Baldwin; Lorraine Culley; Nicky Hudson; Nolwenn Buhler; Paris Connolly; Rosemary Garratt; Rowena Doughty; Sally Ruane; Sasha Loyal; Tina Harris; Wendy Norton; Zaheera Essat - Health and Life Sciences ([log in to unmask]); Zara Hooley
Subject: FW: CRISPR cartoon

Please see below a link to a cartoon explaining the gene editing tool CRISPR and the patenting battle currently occurring. Thanks to Kriss and Cathy for this.

 

From: Kristine Fearon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 19 October 2016 15:39
To: Reproduction Research Group
Subject: CRISPR cartoon

 

This is the cartoon Cathy was talking about that explains the development of CRISPR and the legal battle over the patent. 

 

https://thenib.com/bad-blood

thenib.com

Bad Blood. Who gets credit for the technology to cut-and-paste the human genome? by Andy Warner. Posted September 19th, 2016

 

 

Turner Syndrome and reproductive decision-making. Take part and find out more: http://turner-study.wixsite.com/ts-decisions

 

Kriss Fearon

School of Applied Social Sciences

Hawthorn Building

DMU

LE1 9BH