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

Katherine Wade

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

Kirsty Horsey

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.

Email: zaina.mahmoud@liverpool.ac.uk

Zaina Mahmoud

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

Charlotte Mills