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**Closing date approaching**
Graduate School Full Bursary PhD Scholarship
De Montfort University
CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 31st May 2017. Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held by Friday 16th June approximately.
Commencing October 2017
Project title: Selling hope? Investigating the UK IVF industry and the case of fertility treatment “add-ons”
Given that infertility diagnoses are often uncertain and success with IVF remains relatively low, clinics increasingly offer treatment options to be 'added on' to an IVF cycle in a bid to improve success. Concerns have been raised about the efficacy and marketing of these techniques, in some cases by clinicians and scientists themselves, highlighting a need for public and scientific scrutiny. This includes a need for social science research regarding their ethical, social and economic implications, given that they remain scientifically controversial and/or untested. This study will use qualitative, ethnographic and genealogical methods to investigate how these techniques develop and their uptake or resistance by clinicians, patients and other stakeholders in the context of a highly emotive area of biomedicine
The new Centre for Reproduction Research is hosted within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at De Montfort, and follows on the success of the Reproduction Research Group<http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/health-and-life-sciences/reproduction-research-group/reproduction-research.aspx>. The three-year scholarship (including fee-waiver and bursary of £14,296) is available to UK or EU students who are suitably qualified and have outstanding potential as a researcher. Applications are invited from UK or EU students with a Master’s degree or good first degree in a relevant subject (First, 2:1 or equivalent).
Please direct academic queries to Nicky Hudson on +44 (0)116 2078766 or email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/documents/research-documents/health-and-life-sciences/reproduction-research/hlsfb1-selling-hope-investigating-the-uk-ivf-industry-and-the-case-of-fertility-treatment-add-ons-1.pdf
Dr Kylie Baldwin
Senior Lecturer
Health Studies and Sociology
Centre for Reproduction Research
Allied Health Sciences
Hawthorne Building 0.18
De Montfort University
Faculty of Health & Life Sciences
The Gateway
Leicester
LE1 9BH
T: 01162577735
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W: http://dmu.academia.edu/KylieBaldwin
Tw: @drkyliebaldwin
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