Bionews Contributing Editor
Dr Kirsty Horsey is Contributing Editor at BioNews, and an Adviser to the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust (PET). She was previously Reproduction Editor at BioNews and PET, and together with Dr Jess Buxton she devised the BioNews writing scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. She is Reader in Obligations at the University of Kent's Law School, where she obtained her PhD research on legal parenthood following the use of surrogacy and other forms of assisted conception.
Kirsty is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Feminist Legal Studies, and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars. Much of her research remains focused upon assisted conception, and she is editor of Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology, and coauthor (with Dr Erika Rackley) of Tort Law.
The UK's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority is tasked by the Government to advise on what changes should be made to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008...
For several years, Ukraine has been the second most popular destination (behind California) for cross-border commercial surrogacy for married heterosexual couples seeking surrogacy for medical reasons...
In the decades since the world's first IVF baby was born in the UK in 1978, fertility treatment has changed from being experimental to routine...
The first session at the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference asked whether laws need to be changed, and if so how, in light of recent scientific innovations and changing views of what constitutes a family...
BioNews readers may have seen the news reports on surrogacy last week which showed that there has been an almost fourfold increase in the numbers of parental orders over the last decade...
Featuring an all-female panel and chair, the final session of Progress Educational Trust (PET’s) annual conference ‘Reality Check: A Realistic Look at Assisted Reproduction’ asked: ‘Should Fertility Patients Be Given What They Want, or What They Need?’...
The final session at the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference 'Make Do or Amend: Should We Update UK Fertility and Embryo Law?' continued the theme of looking to future reform of fertility law, as had the keynote address given by Sir James Munby
What is a 'professional model' of surrogacy? The title of this book intrigued me before I had even turned a page...
The third session of the Progress Educational Trust's annual conference featured Professor Sir Ian Wilmut in conversation with Roger Highfield, former Telegraph science editor and now Director of External Affairs for the Science Museum Group...
Meera Syal explores commercial surrogacy in a story about the mismatches between Indian culture and Indian immigrants and their families in Britain...
