Dr Lucy van de Wiel
Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine
Research interests
- Policy
Contact details
Biography
Lucy van de Wiel is a Lecturer and Postgraduate Research Director in Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London. She has founded and is chair of the Reproduction Research Cluster at King’s.
Her research focuses on the introduction of new reproductive technologies such as egg freezing, IVF, and embryo selection. She explores how these technologies give insight into broader developments within the sector, including the datafication of reproduction and the financialisation of fertility. She also researches telemedical abortion in the post-Roe landscape.
She has published an Open Access monograph on egg freezing with New York University Press titled Freezing Fertility: Oocyte Cryopreservation and the Gender Politics of Aging. Freezing Fertility has inspired a feature documentary of the same title produced by VPRO Backlight.
Research interests
- Reproductive technologies
- Egg freezing
- Financialisation of fertility
- Datafication of reproduction
- Abortion
PhD Supervision
Current
- Annabel Sowemimo
- Chanelle Scott
- Samantha Stephen
- Carmel Cardona
- Amanda-Rose O'Halloran (Cambridge)
Past
- Aideen O'Shaughnessy (Cambridge)
- Yvonne Frankfurth (Cambridge)
- Tiantian Chen (Cambridge)
Further Details
Research
Queer@King's
Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.
Reproduction Research Group
Our interdisciplinary group examines the complex social, cultural, and political dimensions of reproduction.
News
Six new collaborations launched as part of King's Artists programme
Artists-in-residence will collaborate with academics to explore imaginative approaches to research.
Events
Rayna Rapp Reproduction Salon
This year's Reproduction Salon features a lecture by Professor Rayna Rapp, New York University, on 'Reproductive Healthcare in a post-Dobbs USA'.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book launch: The Politics of Potential
The Politics of Potential examines how new scientific understandings of the developmental origins of health and disease constitute new forms of...
Please note: this event has passed.
Book Talk - 'Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling'
Making Gaybies is a vital account of racialised intimacy in contemporary queer family making in multiracial Australia.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book launch: 'Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil'
Launch of a book by Professor Ilana Löwy, exploring health disparities and reproductive injustice revealed by the Zika outbreak in Brazil.
Please note: this event has passed.
‘Old is Gold’: Rethinking Marital Intimacy and Commitment through Assisted Reproduction in India
This seminar engages with the uses and abuses of marriage and commitment as tropes to bolster the desire for seeking assisted reproduction in India.
Please note: this event has passed.
Film Screening: Freezing Fertility - 19 January 2023
A film screening of 'Freezing Fertility' at The Prince Charles Cinema on 19 January 2023
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Partnerships, Power, Potential: GHSM on from 10
This exhibition takes a look at the research being undertaken by GHSM academics and students across the world.
Research
Queer@King's
Centre for research and teaching in gender and sexuality studies and a hub for collaborative work with queer activists, artists, and communities.
Reproduction Research Group
Our interdisciplinary group examines the complex social, cultural, and political dimensions of reproduction.
News
Six new collaborations launched as part of King's Artists programme
Artists-in-residence will collaborate with academics to explore imaginative approaches to research.
Events
Rayna Rapp Reproduction Salon
This year's Reproduction Salon features a lecture by Professor Rayna Rapp, New York University, on 'Reproductive Healthcare in a post-Dobbs USA'.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book launch: The Politics of Potential
The Politics of Potential examines how new scientific understandings of the developmental origins of health and disease constitute new forms of...
Please note: this event has passed.
Book Talk - 'Making Gaybies: Queer Reproduction and Multiracial Feeling'
Making Gaybies is a vital account of racialised intimacy in contemporary queer family making in multiracial Australia.
Please note: this event has passed.
Book launch: 'Viruses and Reproductive Injustice: Zika in Brazil'
Launch of a book by Professor Ilana Löwy, exploring health disparities and reproductive injustice revealed by the Zika outbreak in Brazil.
Please note: this event has passed.
‘Old is Gold’: Rethinking Marital Intimacy and Commitment through Assisted Reproduction in India
This seminar engages with the uses and abuses of marriage and commitment as tropes to bolster the desire for seeking assisted reproduction in India.
Please note: this event has passed.
Film Screening: Freezing Fertility - 19 January 2023
A film screening of 'Freezing Fertility' at The Prince Charles Cinema on 19 January 2023
Please note: this event has passed.
Features
Partnerships, Power, Potential: GHSM on from 10
This exhibition takes a look at the research being undertaken by GHSM academics and students across the world.