Dr Kirsty Horsey is an Adviser to the Progress Educational Trust (PET), and a Contributing Editor at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. She was previously Reproduction Editor at PET and BioNews, and together with Dr Jess Buxton she devised the BioNews internship scheme, which provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. She is a a Lecturer in Obligations and Family Law 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. She is coeditor (with Professor Hazel Biggs) of Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and coauthor (with Dr Erika Rackley) of Tort Law (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA) and (with Helen Carr and Sarah Carter) Skills For Law Students (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).

At lectern: Dr Kirsty Horsey
Speaking at the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Ben Jones

Left to right: Rosie Beauchamp, (at lectern) Dr Kirsty Horsey,
At the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon

Left to right: Dr Kirsty Horsey, Dr Jess Buxton
At the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Ben Jones

Left to right: Laura Riley, Juliet Tizzard, Sarah Norcross, Dr Kirsty Horsey, Dr Jess Buxton
At the celebration of the 10th anniversary and 500th edition of the Progress Educational Trust's BioNews publication
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon

Left to right: Juliet Tizzard, Dr Kirsty Horsey, Dr Jess Buxton, Laura Riley
At the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Progress Educational Trust
Photograph by Viscount Janric Craigavon