Sarah Earle

Professor Earle is a medical sociologist with a long-standing interest in reproductive and sexual health.

This began with the completion of her doctoral thesis in 1998, which focused on women’s embodiment in pregnancy, childbirth and early motherhood.

Her interest in women’s embodiment and reproductive agency has continued and she led empirical research projects focusing on pre-conception care for women with pre-existing type I and type II diabetes (funded by the NIHR), the contraceptive experiences of women with learning disabilities (funded by Open Society Foundations) and, a systematic review of the international literature on men’s role in infant feeding.

Sarah has published widely on the sociology of human reproduction, including two international edited collections Understanding Reproductive Loss: International Perspectives on Life, Death and Fertility (published by Routledge) and Gender, Identity & Reproduction: Social Perspectives (published by Palgrave).

Between 2000 and 2011, Sarah chaired the British Sociological Association’s Human Reproduction Study Group.

She is now the Social Sciences sub-editor for the international multi-disciplinary peer-reviewed journal Human Fertility, which is dedicated to furthering research and promoting good practice in the areas of human fertility and infertility.