Dr Ëlo Luik

Dr Ëlo Luik was a Volunteer Writer at BioNews and a Volunteer at the charity that publishes it, the Progress Educational Trust. She has completed a PhD at the University of Oxford Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Her research focused on transnational third-party reproduction in relation to state regulation, and she performed fieldwork in India. She was also a competitive rower for the Oxford University Women's Boat Club. Previously, she obtained a MA at the University of Aberdeen Anthropology Department, investigating the perception and tolerance of pain among modern day pilgrims to the Spanish city of Santiago de Compostela and was a Research Fellow at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology.