Kent lecturer Dr Kirsty Horsey has successfully secured funding to investigate surrogacy law in practice.
A grant has been provided by the University of Kent’s Social Science Faculty Research Fund which will enable Dr Horsey to undertake a socio-legal pilot project researching lived experiences of surrogacy law. This will include opportunities for Dr Horsey to observe sessions with specialist lawyers as they advise clients about actual surrogacy cases.
Dr Horsey, a Senior Law Lecturer at Kent Law School, has research interests in the area of the regulation of human reproduction and genetic technologies, particularly where these overlap with issues in family law, and has written widely about surrogacy. She is a Contributing Editor for BioNews
Dr Horsey ‘s latest book, Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology, is due for publication by Routledge in June. The book considers whether the amendments made to the regulation of human assisted reproduction in 2008 have been effective. Within the book, she has co-authored a chapter, in collaboration with Katia Neofytou, entitled ‘The Fertility Treatment Time Forgot: What Should be Done About Surrogacy in the UK?’ The book is a follow-up to a previous collection, co-edited with Professor Hazel Biggs and published by Routledge-Cavendish in 2007, entitled Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation.
Dr Horsey has previously written a book section entitled ‘Swept Under the Carpet: Why Surrogacy Law Needs Urgent Review’, which was included in Volume V of Ethics, Law and Society, published by Ashgate in 2013. In 2012, with Sally Sheldon, she published ‘Still Hazy After All These Years: The Law Regulating Surrogacy’ in the Medical Law Review.
For more details of Dr Horsey’s research interests and publications, visit her staff profile page.