Fwd: Job ad: 3-year postdoc techno repro health at King's College London

[Mariana Pitta Lima]

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Dear colleagues, 

I am very happy to announce a job opening for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Associate position at King's College London as part of my Wellcome-funded project on Speculative Fertilities. The postdoc will work with me on a research project examining the politics of contraception and abortion, focusing on the case study of a trailblazing clinical trial that explores the use of mifepristone (the abortion pill) as a contraceptive. The position is based in the Reproduction Research Group at the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King's College London. 

The Wellcome-funded Speculative Fertilities: Finance, Pharma, and the Future of Reproduction project, which aims to transform the social study of reproduction by analysing the intersection of the financial and fertility sectors as a key site of reproductive politics. Using qualitative methods, this project consists of three work streams analysing case studies that may transform the future of reproduction, including automated IVF, in vitro gametogenesis (IVG) and mifepristone (abortion pill) as contraception. The advertised position focuses on the latter work stream, which will explore the socio-cultural as well as political-economic dimensions of clinical trials that explore the possibility of using mifepristone as a weekly contraceptive. The research will focus on the social dynamics of both the clinical trials themselves and the steps towards registration, authorisation and implementation after the trial finishes.. 

Apply here

Deadline: 2 February 2026

Please share far and wide! Feel free to contact me for any questions. 

With very best wishes, 

Lucy 

PS Also save the date for the next Reproduction Salon on 29 May 2026. 

Dr. Lucy van de Wiel

Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine

King's College London

Department of Global Health & Social Medicine
Bush House, NE Wing, 3^rd Floor, Room 3.05
King's College London
London WC2R 2LS

My book:
Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging (New York University Press, 2020)- New York University Press (December 2020)

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