Dr Anna Nelson (she/her)
School of Law
Research Associate
Full contact details
School of Law
Bartolomé House
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Anna is a Research Assistant for the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘FemTech surveillance: Gendered digital harms and regulatory approaches’ (lead by Dr Maria Tazanou (PI), Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz (Co-I) and Dr Marco Ortolani (Co-I)).
Anna’s PhD explored the relationship between partial ectogenesis and autonomy during childbirth. This was supervised by Dr Alex Mullock and Professor Becki Bennett at the University of Manchester. Alongside her doctoral research, she has written widely on access to choice in childbirth during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has wider research interests in reproductive technology, childbirth and gendered experiences of healthcare.
Anna has previously worked as a Teaching Assistant and a Teaching Associate at the University of Manchester, delivering teaching on medical law (LLB and LLM) and criminal law (LLB) courses. She has experience supervising LLM dissertations. Anna has also worked as a Research Assistant on a range of different projects across law and bioethics, exploring issues including digital health interventions, assisted dying and the menopause.
- Qualifications
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- PhD in Bioethics & Medical Jurisprudence, University of Manchester
- LLM Healthcare Ethics & Law, University of Manchester
- LLB Scots Law, University of Glasgow
- Research interests
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- FemTech
- Choice in Childbirth
- Reproductive Technology
- Obstetric Violence
- Gendered Experience of Healthcare
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Episiotomies and the ethics of consent during labour and birth: thinking beyond the existing consent framework. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49(9), 622-623.
- Swati Jha and Eloise Power (eds), Lessons from Medicolegal Cases in Obstetrics and Gynaecology: Improving Clinical Practice. Medical Law Review, 31(2), 303-308.
- Should Delivery by Partial Ectogenesis Be Available on Request of the Pregnant Person?. IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 15(1), 1-26.
- The Medicalisation of Childbirth and Access to homebirth in the UK: Covid-19 and Beyond. Medical Law Review, 29(4), 661-687.
- Camilla Pickles and Jonathan Herring (eds), Women’s Birthing Bodies: Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability. Medical Law Review, 29(2), 384-391.
- Vaginal Examinations During Childbirth: Consent, Coercion and COVID-19. Feminist Legal Studies, 29(1), 119-131.
- Maternal request caesareans and COVID-19: the virus does not diminish the importance of choice in childbirth. Journal of Medical Ethics, 46(11), 726-731.
- Homebirthing in the United Kingdom during COVID-19. Medical Law International, 20(3), 183-200.
- Medical authority and expectations of conformity: crystallising a key barrier to person-centred care during labour and childbirth. Journal of Medical Ethics.