Known Unknowns: The Pros, Cons and Consequences of Known Donation

Описание: This Progress Educational Trust event discusses the recent growth of 'known donor' arrangements in sperm donation and egg donation. More details in the full description below ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This event was held online on 16 September 2020, and was produced by the Progress Educational Trust (PET) in partnership with the University of Manchester's Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives. See their websites at https://www.progress.org.uk/ and https://www.socialsciences.manchester...

The event was also funded by UK Research and Innovation and the European Sperm Bank. See their websites at https://www.ukri.org/ and https://www.europeanspermbank.com/

INTRODUCTION
• 0:00:00 - Sarah Norcross (Director, Progress Educational Trust)

PRESENTATIONS
• 0:00:59 - Dr Petra Nordqvist (Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives)
• 0:08:41 - Natasha Fox (donor-conceived person)
• 0:18:23 - Nina Barnsley (Director of the Donor Conception Network)
• 0:28:51 - Erika Tranfield (Founder and Director of Pride Angel)
• 0:37:28 - Natalie Gamble (Solicitor at NGA Law)

DISCUSSION
• 0:45:45 - Responses to audience questions and comments

CLOSE
• 1:13:18 - Quotes from known donors (interviewed by researchers at the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Lives)

🎥The recording of this event was made by Video Production Edinburgh (https://videoproductionedinburgh.co.uk/)

After this event took place, four of the speakers kindly agreed to answer additional questions in follow-up interviews. See interviews featuring:

• Dr Petra Nordqvist at    • Known Unknowns: The Follow-Up Interviews (...  
• Nina Barnsley at    • Known Unknowns: The Follow-Up Interviews (...  
• Natalie Gamble at    • Known Unknowns: The Follow-Up Interviews (...  
• Erika Tranfield at    • Known Unknowns: The Follow-Up Interviews (...  

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Image in video thumbnail by Ezequiel Miron/University of Oxford, via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the misreplication of DNA in a human fetal lung fibroblast nucleus (super-resolution optical micrograph of DNA stain acquired with a 3D structured illumination microscope). Original image at https://wellcomecollection.org/works/...

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