Over two days, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners gathered together at Lancaster University to explore the cultural, ethical, legal, and social dimensions of emerging reproductive technologies in the final event of the Our Future of Human Reproduction project.
The project was led by the bioethicist Professor Stephen Wilkinson and his team was very multidisciplinary. It included academics and researchers from the fields of design, English literature, law, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.
PET director Sarah Norcross particularly enjoyed the speculative design element of the milestone event. This provided an innovative way of discussing issues such as cut off ages for assisted reproduction and birth certification to record more than two parents plus any other people who may have been involved in creating a child, such as a donor.
The talented Amber Anderson acted as a live scribe and captured many of the discussions in visual minutes. You can find these and a lot more about the Wellcome-supported Our Future of Human Reproduction on the project’s webpages Future of Human Reproduction - Lancaster University.