Dr Anna Nelson (she/her)

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.