Chanelle Scott returned to King’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (GHSM) for her PhD studies, after completing her undergraduate studies at the department in 2021 and her MPhil at the University of Cambridge in Health, Medicine, and Society.

Chanelle believes firmly that health is, and should always be, considered more than a medical matter. That means taking seriously the social, political, economic, and historical, alongside the biological.

Her time with the GHSM department cemented her interest in Reproductive Sociology and Gender and Sexuality Studies. Since then, her research has focused on the lived experience of women's engagement with new and emerging reproductive technologies, such as egg freezing and hormone fertility testing.

Chanelle is involved in a number of research initiatives in the department, including the Reproduction Research Group led by Dr. Lucy van de Wiel. She is also the postgraduate representative for the GHSM PhD cohort and a Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) in the department.

Research

Thesis title: 'Re-Imagining the Fertile Body: Understanding Women's Experiences of Direct-to-consumer Fertility Testing'

This research project aims to explore the new landscape of Direct-to-Consumer fertility testing. Taking a feminist STS (science and technology studies) perspective and drawing on a Grounded Theory approach, this Reproductive Sociology project seeks to understand women’s experiences of hormone fertility testing.

What is critical to this research is understanding the target group for this new reproductive service and capturing user experiences.

The project speaks to many prominent reproductive health issues, including our ideas of informed decision-making, reproductive education and awareness, as well as the commercialisation of fertility and reproduction.

PhD supervision

• Principal supervisor: Anne Pollock
• Secondary supervisor: Lucy van de Wiel

Further details

See Chanelle's research profile