Meet the team
Katherine Wade
Lead researcher
Katherine is the lead researcher on this project. Her research is about how surrogacy affects children, including children born through surrogacy and children of surrogates.
Katherine is really interested in including children’s views when decisions are made about the law. She works at the University of Bristol as a lecturer in family law.
Email: katherine.wade@bristol.ac.uk
Kirsty Horsey
Researcher
Kirsty is a researcher on this project. She is interested in reforming legal rules on surrogacy. She works with non-profit and charitable organisations, as well as the government to encourage reform.
Kirsty is a teacher and researcher in law at the University of Kent.
Email: k.horsey@kent.ac.uk
Zaina Mahmoud
Researcher
Zaina is a researcher on this project. Her research is about promoting the health and wellbeing of surrogates by speaking to surrogates about their experiences in the UK and California.
Zaina is a teacher and researcher in law at the University of Liverpool.
Charlotte Mills
Research Assistant for Phase One
Charlotte Mills was the research assistant for Phase One of this project. Her research is about women’s human rights in South Korea. She is a researcher at the University of Sheffield.
Email: c.mills@sheffield.ac.uk