** 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
Allied Health Sciences
Hawthorn Building 0.18
De Montfort University
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
T: 01162577735
W:
http://dmu.academia.edu/KylieBaldwin
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.
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