Cambridge Reproduction is an Interdisciplinary Research Centre exploring the urgent challenges posted by reproduction today.
Facilitating close engagement between the arts, humanities and social sciences, biology and medicine. By approaching reproduction collectively and across disciplines, the IRC can provide fresh perspectives on broad issues which range from global policies to those which affect individuals, families and populations.
They organise events, providing funding for members and provide opportunities for the Cambridge community with an interest in reproduction to collaborate.
Over the past decade Cambridge University has become home to an increasing number of leading research centres and groupings in 'reproductive studies', such as the Centre for Family Research, the Loke Centre for Trophoblast Research (CTR), the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP), and the Growth and Development Programme of the MRC Epidemiology Unit, as well as newer groups such as the Wellcome-funded Generation to Reproduction project and the Reproductive Sociology Research Group (ReproSoc) based in Sociology.
On the clinical side, there is the on-going and highly successful Pregnancy Outcome Prediction Study (POPS) being conducted in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and women's health is one of the three themes of the Wellcome Trust-Cambridge Centre for Global Health Research.
The IRC acts as an "umbrella" for these groupings, integrating researchers in different departments and institutes at all levels in order to promote cross-fertilisation of ideas, and to develop new interdisciplinary research, teaching initiatives and policy developments.
Membership of Cambridge Reproduction is open to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and academic staff in the University of Cambridge and its affiliated institutions who have an interest in any aspect of reproduction. Members will be added to the directory on our website and also to our mailing list, where they will receive information about events and activities for members.