Dr Kirsty Horsey is Reproduction Editor at the Progress Educational Trust (PET) and at its free weekly email news digest, commentary service and website BioNews. Together with her fellow BioNews editors Dr Vivienne Raper and Chris Chatterton, and PET chair Professor Marcus Pembrey, she runs the BioNews internship scheme. This scheme, which she devised together with Dr Jess Buxton, provides practical science writing training and experience for PhD students. Prior to becoming BioNews/PET Reproduction Editor, she researched and designed a PET exhibition about the history of IVF. 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.

Kirsty is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Feminist Legal Studies, and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars. Much of her research remains focused upon assisted conception, and she has coedited (with Professor Hazel Biggs) the book Human Fertilisation and Embryology: Reproducing Regulation (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), which looks at ways that regulation in this area could be improved. She is also coauthor (with Dr Erika Rackley) of Tort Law (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA), and (with Helen Carr and Sarah Carter) of Skills For Law Students (buy this book from Amazon UK or Amazon USA).