Dr Marcin Śmietana

Research Fellow, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Dr Marcin Śmietana is a sociologist and holds the positions of Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He conducted a Wellcome Trust-funded study of gay men's use of surrogacy in the UK, and he researched LGBTQ+ family formation and patient experience in the fertility industry in the UK, Europe and the USA. His research has been based at the University of Cambridge (Reproductive Sociology Research Group), Queen Mary University of London (Remaking Fertility initiative), Autonomous University of Barcelona (AFIN-Barcelona research group), the University of California Berkeley (Department of Gender and Women's Studies), and Jagiellonian University of Kraków (Sociology Department). Currently, within the European Research Council-funded project 'PregDaT: Pregnancy Dating Challenges: Technologies and Unequal Geographies of Abortion and Childbirth Care', based at Ca' Foscari University of Venice, he is studying pregnant people's experiences of time in pregnancy in the UK.