Leah Gilman Author

Petra Nordqvist is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Her research explores reproductive technologies, kinship, intimacy, gender and sexualities, and she is particularly well known for her work investigating donor conception and donation from relational perspectives. She has previously co-authored Relative Strangers: Family Life, Genes and Donor Conception (Palgrave Macmillan 2014, with Carol Smart), and has published widely in a range of academic journals.

Leah Gilman is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy at The University of Manchester and a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. Her research encompasses the sociology of reproduction, childhood and family studies, as well as creative research methods. Her work has been published in various peer-reviewed journals, including Sociology, Sociology of Health and Illness and Families Relationships and Societies.