Publications

Being an egg or sperm donor

Being an egg or sperm donor

January 24, 2022

Being an egg or sperm donor: This leaflet talks about The impact of donation on donors and their families

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Connections with recipient parents

Connections with recipient parents

January 24, 2022

This leaflet explores an often-overlooked relationship: the connection between donors and their recipients, that is, the parent or parents of the child born from their donation.

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Balancing ‘being available’ and ‘knowing your place’?

Balancing ‘being available’ and ‘knowing your place’?

January 24, 2022

How do donors balance their – sometimes conflicting – responsibilities to be open to any children born from their donation but without overstepping parental boundaries?

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Talking to your children about being an egg or sperm donor

Talking to your children about being an egg or sperm donor

January 24, 2022

Watch on YouTube about the research on talking to your children about being an egg or sperm donor

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Sperm and egg donors' feelings of connection with their recipients

Sperm and egg donors' feelings of connection with their recipients

January 24, 2022

Sperm and egg donors' feelings of connection with their recipients Focusing on the connection that donors feel to the parents of the child/ren born from their donation.

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The pros, cons, and consequences of known donation

The pros, cons, and consequences of known donation

January 24, 2022

The pros, cons, and consequences of known donation Petra Nordqvist presented our research and took part in the panel discussion for this event, organised by Progress Educational Trust.

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'Going Home' short stories about being an egg-share donor

'Going Home' short stories about being an egg-share donor

January 24, 2022

'Going Home' short stories about being an egg-share donor Cover of Going Home short story booklet These fictional short stories are based on interviews with women who donated their eggs during their own fertility treatment.

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Ideals, negotiations and gender roles in gay and lesbian co-parenting arrangements

Ideals, negotiations and gender roles in gay and lesbian co-parenting arrangements

February 26, 2020

This paper engages with the complex gender and parental dynamics experienced in the context of co-parenting arrangements. These arrangements, based on mutual agreement, involve people who commit to raising a child together, possibly with their respective partners. These family forms are usually pursued to avoid what is perceived as the uncertainty surrounding alternative assisted reproductive options such as donor insemination or surrogacy, and to allow the child to have two biological and sexually differentiated parental figures.

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Clinical vs. exclusively online sperm donors: what’s the difference?

Clinical vs. exclusively online sperm donors: what’s the difference?

November 21, 2018

As the growth of the internet and commercial connection websites increasingly facilitates sperm donation outside of clinical (formal) settings, studies looking into informal (online) donor psychology and behaviour are both extremely warranted and currently under-researched

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Online sperm donors more agreeable: QUT study

Online sperm donors more agreeable: QUT study

November 06, 2018

As prospective parents increasingly seek sperm donors online, an international study has analysed what sort of men are donating sperm in this informal setting as opposed to a traditional clinic. And it seems a key characteristic is they are more agreeable.

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