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Emerita Professor Erica Haimes

Emeritus Professor of Sociology, PEALS Research Centre

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  • Address: PEALS (Policy, Ethics & Life Sciences) Research Centre
    缅北禁地
    4th Floor Claremont Bridge
    缅北禁地 upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
    United Kingdom
Background

Introduction

Erica Haimes is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, based in the PEALS (Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences) Research Centre, where she was also the Founding Executive Director  (1998-2008), Professorial Fellow (2008-13) and Executive Director (2013-16). PEALS is in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, 缅北禁地.

Her research interests include: interdisciplinary research on social, ethical and legal aspects of the life sciences; reproductive and genetic technologies; the socio-ethical aspects of the provision of human tissue for research, and the relationship between states, families and medicine with a focus on assisted conception. 

Roles and Responsibilities

Erica Haimes is Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of 缅北禁地 and is also a member of the PEALS (Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences) Research Centre.

Previous Positions

Founding Executive Director, PEALS Research Centre (1998-2008)

Professorial Fellow, PEALS Research Centre (2008-2013) 

Executive Director, PEALS Research Centre (2013-2016)

Research

Research Interests

Erica's research interests include:

(i) interdisciplinary research on social, ethical and legal aspects of the life sciences;

(ii) socio-ethical aspects of reproductive and genetic technologies;

(iii) the socio-ethical aspects of the provision of human tissue for research;

(iv) the relationship between states, families and medicine with a focus on assisted conception.

A wide selection of Erica's publications can be downloaded from 缅北禁地's .

 

Other Expertise

Empirical research on a range of socio-ethical issues in the life sciences and in health and illness.

She also provides policy and practice guidance in the above fields, through her memberships of: the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) Ethics and Law Advisory Committee (2009-10), the Ethics and Policy Committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) (2010-2013; renewed 2013 to 2016), the Ethics Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2011-2013; renewed to 2016) and through her appointment to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (from March 2013).

Current Work

Principal and Co- Investigator on various projects funded by: the Wellcome Trust; the William Leech Charity and 缅北禁地 Research Office.

Plus Founder of the PARTS (Provision and Acquisition of Reproductive Tissue for Science) International Research Network.

Postgraduate Supervision

Keywords for supervision: Sociology; Ethics; Genetic and Reproductive Technologies; Identity; Life Sciences

Esteem Indicators

The activities listed below indicate the range of policy engagement and impact that our work has.

Previously Member of the MRC International Advisory Committee on DNA Banking;

Member of the Nuffield Working Party on the social, ethical, legal and clinical issues around the prolongation of life in fetuses and newborns;

Member of the International Advisory Board for the NIH-funded Centre for Genetics Research, Ethics and Law, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, USA;

Member of the Interim Advisory Group on Ethics and Governance for UK Biobank (2003-4);

Member, Ethics and Governance Council, UKBiobank (2007-2009);

Editorial Boards for: Bioethics; New Genetics and Society; Community Genetics;

Advisory Board of the UK’s ESRC Genomics Research and Policy Forum at Edinburgh University;

Launched the PARTS (Provision and Acquisition of Reproductive Tissue for Science) International Research Network;

Asked to join the Ethics and Law Advisory Committee of the UK’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority as an External Member to advise on social science research;

Asked to join the Ethics and Public Policy Committee of the International Society for Stem Cell Research;

Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Ethics Advisory Board (2011-2013; now renewed to 2016);

Appointed to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (from March 2013). 

Funding

Current grants include:

Wellcome Trust (2013-16)  ‘A socio-ethical investigation of the values and experiences of women volunteering to provide eggs for mitochondrial research under a scheme in which money is offered to egg providers’.

缅北禁地 Research Office (2014-15) 'Citizenship, Science and Ethics'

William Leech Charitable Trust: 'Interdisciplinary Approaches to uses of Reproductive Tissue in Science' (IDARTS project);

Past grants include:

Wellcome Trust: A comparative study of participation and non-participation in the North Cumbria Community Genetics Project. (With Michael Whong-Barr; £73,003, 2001-2003);

Northern Rock Foundation: to fund my role as Director of Research in PEALS, with particular responsibility for conducting empirical social science research on social and ethical issues in the life sciences. (£300,000, 2002–2007);

Wellcome Trust: A comparative study of embryo donors’ and non-donors’ views on embryo experimentation for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and stem cell therapies. (£210,344, 2003–2010);

Genetics of Healthy Ageing (GEHA). (With Professor Tom Kirkwood, €296,000, 2004-2010);

Nano2Life with Professor Ken Snowdon. (€123,744, 2004-2008);

Northern Rock Foundation: to fund 3 years salary for public engagement post in PEALS. (With Dr Tom Wakeford; £375,000, 2007-2009);

MRC: to fund an investigation into women’s experiences of an IVF egg sharing scheme for somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) research. Through this scheme volunteers provide eggs for SCNT research in exchange for half-price IVF treatment. (£296,306, 2008-2011).

Publications
  • Haimes E, Williams R. . British Journal of Sociology 2018, 69(3), 825-844.
  • Haimes E. . In: Malmqvist, E; Zeiler, K, ed. Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing: Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016, pp.52-69.
  • Haimes E. . In: Malmqvist, E; Zeiler, K, ed. Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2015, pp.52-69.
  • Haimes E, Taylor K. . Monash Bioethics Review 2015, 33(4), 360-378.
  • Goswami M, Murdoch A, Haimes E. . Human Fertility 2015, 18(2), 113-120.
  • Haimes E, Toom V. . New Genetics and Society 2014, 33(3), 277-294.
  • Haimes E. . Social Science and Medicine 2013, 86, 45-51.
  • Haimes E, Skene L, Ballantyne A, Caulfield T, Goldstein L, Hyun I, Kimmelman J, Robert J, Roxland B, Scott C, Solbakk JH, Sugarman J, Taylor P, Testa G. . Cell Stem Cell 2013, 12(3), 285-291.
  • Haimes E. . In: Derkx, P; Kunneman, H, ed. Genomics and Democracy. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Rodopi, 2013.
  • Haimes E, Taylor K. . Human Fertility 2013, 16(4), 246-251.
  • Evison M, Graham E, Haimes E, Scully JL, Ludwig A, Maguire C, Toom V, Williams R. . New Genetics and Society 2012, 31(4), 385-390.
  • Leach Scully J, Haimes E, Mitzkat A, Porz R, Rehmann-Sutter C. . Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 2012, 9(1), 19-28.
  • Haimes E, Taylor K, Turkmendag I. . Sociology of Health and Illness 2012, 34(8), 1199-1214.
  • Skytthe A, Valensin S, Jeune B, Cevenini E, Balard F, Beekman M, Bezrukov V, Blanche H, Bolund L, Broczek K, Carru C, Christensen K, Christiansen L, Collerton JC, Cotichini R, de Craen AJM, Dato S, Davies K, De Benedictis G, Deiana L, Flachsbart F, Gampe J, Gilbault C, Gonos ES, Haimes E, Hervonen A, Hurme MA, Janiszewska D, Jylha M, Kirkwood TBL, Kristensen P, Laiho P, Leon A, Marchisio A, Masciulli R, Nebel A, Passarino G, Pelicci G, Peltonen L, Perola M, Poulain M, Rea IM, Remade J, Robine JM, Schreiber S, Scurti M, Sevini F, Sikora E, Skouteri A, Slagboom PE, Spazzafumo L, Stazi MA, Toccaceli V, Toussaint O, Tornwall O, Vaupel JW, Voutetakis K, Franceschi C, GEHA Consortium. . Experimental Gerontology 2011, 46(11), 934-945.
  • Haimes E, Taylor K. . Cell Stem Cell 2011, 8(6), 613-615.
  • Haimes E, Taylor K. . Bioethics 2011, 25(6), 334-341.
  • Mitzkat A, Haimes E, Rehmann-Sutter C. . Journal of Medical Ethics 2010, 36(12), 754-757.
  • Hughes JC, Haimes E, Summerville L, Davies K, Collerton J, Kirkwood T. . In: Corrigan, O; McMillan, J Liddell, K; Richards, M; Weijer, C, ed. The Limits of Consent: A Socio-ethical Approach to Human Subject Research in Medicine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, pp.133-150.
  • Mitzkat A, Rehmann-Sutter C, Haimes E, Guangxiu L. . BIONET, 2009.
  • Haimes E, Taylor K. . Human Reproduction 2009, 24(9), 2142-2150.
  • Haimes E. . In: Doering, O, ed. Life Sciences in Translation: a Sino-European dialogue on ethical governance of the life sciences. online publication: BIONET, 2009, pp.64-76.
  • Haimes E, Porz RC, Scully JL, Rehmann-Sutter C. . New Genetics and Society 2008, 27(2), 113-126.
  • Rothmueller N, Haimes E. . 2008. Ethics Steering Committee, Genetics of Healthy Ageing FP6 Integrated Project 2.
  • Rothmueller N, Haimes E. . 2008. 3.
  • Williams R, Barr M, Haimes E, ed. . Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
  • Rothmueller N, Haimes E. . 2008. Ethics Steering Committee, Genetics of Healthy Ageing FP6 Integrated Project 1.
  • Brazier M, Whitelaw A, Archard D, Franck L, Green B, Haimes E, Konrad M, Marlow N, Peckham C, Petrou S, Rodeck C, Russell P, Winyard A. . London: Nuffield Council on Bioethics, 2007.
  • Haimes E, Williams R. . British Journal of Sociology 2007, 58(3), 457-476.
  • Haimes E. . In: Chadwick, R, Kuhse, H, Landman, W, Schuklenk, U and Singer, P, ed. The Bioethics Reader: Editors' Choice. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
  • Graham RH, Rankin JM, Haimes E, Robson SC. . Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 2006, 26(Supplement 1), S14.
  • Haimes E, Williams R. . London: Wellcome Trust, 2006.
  • Haimes E. . The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2006, 34(2), 263-276.
  • Haimes E, Luce JM. . Human Fertility 2006, 9(2), 67-71.
  • Haimes E. . Human Fertility 2005, 8(2), 81-83.
  • Matthews EV, Haimes E, Duguet AM, Clark BFC, Swine C, Toussaint O. . Biogerontology 2005, 6(1), 81-84.
  • Choudhary MK, Haimes E, Herbert M, Stojkovic M, Murdoch AP. . Human Reproduction 2004, 19(9), 2091-2096.
  • Lowrance, Campbell A , Haimes E, Laurie G, Mathew C, McHale J, Millar H, O'Neill O. . London: Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, Department of Health, 2004. Version 3.0.
  • Haimes E, Whong-Barr M. . TRAMES: journal of the humanities and social sciences 2004, 8(1/2), 150-163.
  • Haimes E, Barr M. . Trames 2004, 8(1/2), 150-163.
  • Haimes E, Barr M. . In: Tutton R; Corrigan O, ed. Genetic Databases: Socio-ethical issues in the collection and use of DNA. London: Routledge, 2004, pp.57-77.
  • Haimes E, Barr M. . In: Knoppers BM, ed. Populations and Genetics: Legal Socio-Ethical Perspectives. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2003, pp.199-216.
  • Haimes E. . Body and Society 2003, 9(1), 11-33.
  • Barr M, Haimes E. . European Journal of Human Genetics 2003, 11(supplement 1).
  • Haimes E. . In: Healy DL, ed. Reproductive medicine in the twenty-first century: Advances in Fertility and Sterility. Boca Raton: Parthenon Publishing, 2002, pp.86-96.
  • Haimes E. . Bioethics 2002, 16(2), 89-113.
  • Haimes E. . Journal of Law and Medicine 2002, 9(4), 438-448.
  • Haimes E, Weiner K. . Sociology of Health and Illness 2000, 22(4), 477-499.
  • Haimes E. . In: Habitus 2000: A Sense of Place. 2000, Perth, Australia.
  • Spallone P, Wilkie T, Ettore E, Haimes E, Shakespeare TW, Stacey M. . In: Eldridge, J.E.T.; MacInnes, J.; Scott, S.; Warhurst, C.; Witz, A, ed. For sociology: legacies and prospects. Durham: sociologypress, 2000, pp.191-203.
  • Haimes E. . In: Burfoot A, ed. Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999.
  • Haimes E. . In: Burfoot A, ed. Encyclopedia of Reproductive Technologies. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1999.
  • Gofton L, Haimes E. . Sociological Research Online 1999, 4(3).
  • Selman PF, Haimes E. . In: Marsh G; Renfrew M, ed. Community Based Maternity Care. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp.97-118.
  • Haimes E. . Human Fertility 1999, 2(2), 122-126.
  • Haimes E, Daniels K. . In: Daniels K and Haimes E, ed. Donor Insemination: International Social Science Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.173-178.
  • Haimes E, Daniels K, ed. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
  • Haimes E. . Human Fertility 1998, 1(1), 30-34.
  • Haimes E, Daniels K. . In: Daniels K and Haimes E, ed. Donor Insemination: International Social Science Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.1-6.
  • Haimes E, Williams R. . In: Velody, I. and Williams, R, ed. The Politics of Constructionism. London: Sage, 1998, pp.132-146.
  • Haimes E. . In: Daniels K and Haimes E, ed. Donor Insemination: International Social Science Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp.53-75.
  • Haimes E. . In: Blyth E, Crawshaw M and Speirs J, ed. Truth and the Child 10 Years On: Information Exchange in Donor-Assisted Conception. Birmingham: British Association of Social Workers, 1998.
  • Haimes E, Mason K, Stark C. . In: Humphrey R, ed. Families Behind the Headlines. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: British Association for the Advancement of Science, Sociology and Social Policy Section/Department of Social Policy, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 1996, pp.19-27.
  • Haimes E. . Human Reproduction 1993, 8(9), 1518-1520.
  • Haimes E. . Social Science & Medicine 1993, 36(1), 85-93.
  • Frankin S, Haimes E. . 1993.
  • Haimes E. . Politics and the Life Sciences 1993, 12(2), 178-179.
  • Haimes E. . In: Hill M, ed. New Agendas in the Study of the Policy Process. Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993, pp.152-175.
  • Haimes E. . In: Infertility Counselling: Proceedings of the B.I.C.A./Multiple Births Foundation Study Day. 1992, York, UK: British Infertility Counselling Association.
  • Franklin S, Haimes E, Pfeffer N, Price F, Stacey M, Strathern M. . In: Stacey M, ed. Changing Human Reproduction: Social Science Perspectives. London: Sage, 1992, pp.170-177.
  • Haimes E, Selman P, Forrest H. . South Tyneside Community Health Council, 1992.
  • Newton J, Hutchinson A, Steen N, Russell I, Haimes E. . Quality in Health Care 1992, 1(4), 256-259.
  • Haimes E. . In: Stacey, M, ed. Changing Human Reproduction: Social Science Perspectives. London: Sage, 1992, pp.119-147.
  • Franklin S, Haimes E, Pfeffer N, Price F, Stacey M, Strathern M. . In: Stacey M, ed. Changing Human Reproduction: Social Science Perspectives. London: Sage, 1992, pp.1-8.
  • Russell IT, Addington-Hall JM, Avery PJ, Bamford CH, Barton AG, Donaldson C, Eccles MP, Foy CJW, Haimes E, Hewison J, Ho PPM, Humphrey RD, Hutchinson A, Irvine DH, McColl E, Parker L, Steen IN, Towner EML, Webb JKG. . British Medical Journal 1992, 304(6840), 1480-1484.
  • Russell IT, Addington-Hall JM, Avery PJ, Bamford CH, Barton AG, Catty RHC, Donaldson C, Foy CJW, Haimes E, Hewison J, Humphrey RD, Hutchinson A, Irvine DH, McColl E, Newton JC, Parker L, Philips PR, Steen IN, Towner EML, Webb JKG. . British Medical Journal 1992, 304(6840), 1484-1488.
  • Haimes E. . Medical Sociology News 1991, 16(3), 11-12.
  • Haimes E. . Bulletin of Medical Ethics 1991, 66, 25-27.
  • Russell IT, Donaldson C, Foy CJW, Towner E, Philips PR, Parker L, McColl E, Hutchinson A, Humphrey RD, Ho M, Hewison J, Haimes E, Barton AG, Bamford C, Addington-Hall JM. . In: Bergerhoff P, Lehmann D and Novak P, ed. Primary Health Care. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1991.
  • Haimes E. . Journal of Biosocial Science 1991, 23(2), 253-254.
  • Haimes E. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Department of Social Policy, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 1990.
  • North of England Study of Standards and Performance in General Practice. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Health Care Research Unit, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 1990. 40.
  • North of England Study of Standards and Performance in General Practice. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Health Care Research Unit, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 1990. 41.
  • North of England Study of Standards and Performance in General Practice. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Health Care Research Unit, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 1990. 42.
  • Haimes E. . In: McNeil M, Varcoe I and Yearley S, ed. The New Reproductive Technologies. London: Macmillan/British Sociological Association, 1990, pp.154-172.
  • Barton AG, Hewison J, Jackson J, Donohoe S, Haimes E, Humphrey RD, Foy C, Russell I. . In: Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Health Psychology Section. 1990, British Psychological Society.
  • Newton J, Haimes E. . In: North of England Study of Standards and Performance in General Practice Research Team, ed. North of England Study of Standards and Performance in General Practice: Final Report. Volume 1: Setting clinical standards within small groups. 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Health Care Research Unit, University of 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, 1990, pp.113-140.
  • Haimes E. . In: Bruce N, Mitchell A and Priestley K, ed. Truth and the Child: a Contribution to the Debate on the Warnock Report. Edinburgh: Family Care, 1988, pp.31-34.
  • Haimes E. . International Journal of Law and the Family 1988, 2(1), 46-61.
  • Haimes E, Cox J. . Cumbria: Caldbeck Health Centre, 1987.
  • Haimes E. . In: Honess T and Yardley K, ed. Self and Identity: Perspectives Across the Lifespan. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987, pp.359-371.
  • North of England Study of Standards and Performance in General Practice. . European Newsletter on Quality Assurance 1986, 3(3), 5.
  • Irvine DH, Russell IT, Hutchinson A, Foy CJW, Addington-Hall JM, Barton AG, Donaldson C, Haimes E, Humphrey RD, Philips P, Parkin JM, Hewison J. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Health Care Research Unit, University of 缅北禁地, 1986. 28.
  • Russell IT, Foy CJW, Garrett A, Smyth JE, Parker L, Addington-Hall JM, Barton AG, Haimes E, Hewison J, Humphrey RD, Hutchinson A, Philips PR. . 缅北禁地 upon Tyne: Health Care Research Unit, University of 缅北禁地, 1986. 31.
  • Irvine DH, Russell IT, Hewison J, Hutchinson A, Barton AG, Foy CJW, Haimes E, Humphrey RD, Webb JKG, Parkin JM. . In: Pendleton, D., Schofield, T. and Marinker, M, ed. In Pursuit of Quality: Approaches to Performance Review in General Practice. London: Royal College of General Practitioners, 1986, pp.146-167.
  • Russell IT, Donaldson C, Foy CJW, Addington-Hall JM, Barton AG, Haimes E, Hewison J, Humphrey RD, Hutchinson A, Parker L, Philips PR. . In: American Statistical Association Annual Conference. 1986, American Statistical Association.
  • Haimes E, Timms N. . Aldershot: Gower, 1985.
  • Timms N, Haimes E. . In: Children Act, 1975: Second Report to Parliament. London: HMSO, 1984.
  • Haimes E, Timms N. . Adoption and Fostering 1984, 8(3), 42-26.
  • Haimes E, Timms N. . London: Department of Health and Social Security, 1983.
  • Haimes E, Timms N. . Foster Care 1983, 36, 18-19.
  • Cullen I, Hammond S, Haimes E. . Social Science Research Council, 1980.
  • Cullen I, Hammond S, Haimes E. . London: Transport and Road Research Laboratory, 1980.