{"id":8044,"date":"2024-09-18T11:18:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T10:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2025-02-19T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T21:51:40","slug":"professor-kirsty-horsey-awarded-fellow-of-academy-of-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/professor-kirsty-horsey-awarded-fellow-of-academy-of-social-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Kirsty Horsey awarded Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kent Law School\u2019s\u00a0Professor Kirsty Horsey<\/a>\u00a0has been elected to the Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the representative body of the social sciences in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The\u202fAcademy\u2019s Fellowship\u202fcomprises leading social scientists from academia, the public, private and third sectors. Their expertise covers the breadth of the social sciences, and their practice and research addresses some of the major challenges facing communities, society, places and economies.<\/p>\n

Professor Horsey was nominated for the Fellowship for her ’empirical and policy work on surrogacy regulation’.<\/p>\n

Professor Horsey\u2019s long-term research interest focuses on the laws regulating surrogacy. She has worked with external non-profit and charitable organisations to facilitate and encourage reform. One such collaborative project \u2013 the SurrogacyUK Working Group on Surrogacy Law Reform \u2013 led to the publication of two Research Reports on the state of the law governing surrogacy, together with recommendations for reform, in 2015 and 2018, that informed the work of the Law Commission of England and Wales and Scottish Law Commission, who jointly recommended changes to the law on surrogacy in 2023. An\u00a0edited collection<\/a>\u00a0examining and responding to the Law Commissions\u2019 proposed reforms will be published in early 2025.<\/p>\n

More recently Professor Horsey has collaborated on empirical work with\u00a0My Surrogacy Journey<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0SurrogacyUK<\/a>, both non-profit organisations in the UK supporting surrogates and intended parents, and has held a two-year position as a Senior Research Associate at the London Women\u2019s Clinic (LWC) and London Egg Bank. She is currently working on a collaborative project titled\u00a0\u2018Children\u2019s Voices in Surrogacy Law\u2019<\/a>\u00a0exploring the experiences and understandings of children born through surrogacy (both domestic and international), or whose mothers were surrogates, and comparing these to views of children with no connection to surrogacy.<\/p>\n

Other Law School colleagues who are Fellows in the Academy include\u00a0Professor Rosemary Hunter<\/a>,\u00a0Professor Diamond Ashiagbor<\/a>,\u00a0Professor Erika Rackley<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Professor Amanda Parry-Kessaris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Professor Horsey’s publications include the best-selling textbook Tort Law<\/a>\u00a0(co-authored with colleague Professor Erika Rackley, currently 8th<\/sup>\u00a0edition, 2023) and edited collections in the same area (Diverse Voices in Tort Law<\/a>, Bristol University Press, 2024) and on the regulation of assisted reproduction in the UK (Revisiting the Regulation of Human Fertilisation and Embryology<\/a>, Routledge, 2015).<\/p>\n

At Kent, she convenes both the Law of Tort and Advanced Topics in Tort Law, and supervises PhD students on topics related to assisted reproduction, surrogacy and related areas of medical and family law.<\/p>\n