Changes to UK egg donor compensation: What will be the impact?
The recent decision by the HFEA to increase compensation for gamete donors is going to have specific impacts on egg donors, that need to be explored…
Professor Nicky Hudson
Professor of medical sociology
Nicky Hudson is professor of medical sociology and director of the Centre for Reproduction Research at De Montfort University. Her research explores experiences of reproductive health, the development and use of a range of reproductive technologies, and the social contexts in which they exist.
BioNews Articles by Professor Nicky Hudson
Screening donors: New challenges in the UK fertility landscape
Screening gamete donors could reduce transmission of recessive genetic conditions, but also gives rise to new and ethically sensitive questions for recipients, clinicians and donors...
The changing landscape of egg donation in Europe: findings from the UK, Belgium and Spain
The EDNA study which looked at the social, political, economic and moral constitution of egg donation in Europe, ended recently, after 4.5 years of research...
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts equipment used for embryo biopsy.
Walking on eggshells? The morally complex practice of egg sharing
BioNews recently reported on the Daily Mail investigation of a so-called 'cash for eggs' scandal which suggested women on low incomes are induced to provide eggs for use in the fertility treatment of others. The coverage, which prompting swift responses f
Image by Alan Handyside via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a human egg soon after fertilisation, with the two parental pronuclei clearly visible.
Donor conception in the UK: the seldom-heard voices of minority ethnic communities
When we set out over ten years ago to carry out research about infertility within British South Asian communities, little was known about how involuntary childlessness and its possible resolution with assisted conception was experienced by members of minority ethnic communities in the UK...
