{"id":8828,"date":"2026-02-27T15:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:18:11","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr Natalie Richardson on Passing Her PhD Viva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Law School is delighted to share that Natalie Richardson passed her PhD viva on Thursday 26 February.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie&#8217;s PhD is entitled: Informed choice, regulation and ambiguity: A socio-legal exploration of how service users and providers experience social egg freezing.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie&#8217;s work was examined by Professor Kirsty Horsey and Professor Jo Bridgeman (Sussex Law School). They report that the viva was both rigorous and enjoyable, and that their recommendation to confirm Natalie&#8217;s PhD success was &#8216;unambiguous&#8217; (unlike the experience of social egg freezing).<\/p>\n<p>Natalie&#8217;s PhD was supported with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senss.ac.uk\/studentships-overview\">SeNSS studentship<\/a>, and supervised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/kent-law-school\/people\/1226\/mccandless-julie\">Dr Julie McCandless<\/a>, Professor Sally Sheldon (now Bristol Law School) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/school-of-social-sciences\/people\/1924\/lee-ellie\">Professor Ellie Lee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well done DOCTOR Natalie Richardson and warmest wishes for the future.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2026\/02\/Natalie-Richardson-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8831\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/files\/2026\/02\/Natalie-Richardson-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/&amp;t=Congratulations to Dr Natalie Richardson on Passing Her PhD Viva' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Congratulations to Dr Natalie Richardson on Passing Her PhD Viva%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/&amp;title=Congratulations to Dr Natalie Richardson on Passing Her PhD Viva' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/&amp;title=Congratulations to Dr Natalie Richardson on Passing Her PhD Viva' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Law School is delighted to share that Natalie Richardson passed her PhD viva on Thursday 26 February. Natalie&#8217;s PhD is entitled: Informed choice, regulation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/congratulations-to-dr-natalie-richardson-on-passing-her-phd-viva\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":8829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,92931,28766],"tags":[561,162,146516,24357,146515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8833,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions\/8833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/law-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}