Abortion discourses in the UK – from the personal to the political

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Pushing Boundaries Seminar Series
Institute for Research in Social Sciences
Abortion discourses in the UK – from the personal to the political

Presented by
Dr Fiona Bloomer (University of Ulster)
Dr Lesley Hoggart (Open University)

Fiona Bloomer is a Lecturer in the School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy at Ulster. Fiona’s research interests focus on social policy, with a particular interest in abortion policy and politics, abortion stigma and the prochoice activism.

Dr. Lesley Hoggart is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the Open University. She specialises in qualitative research, and spent many years working in the qualitative research group at the Policy Studies Institute. Her research interests are focused on reproductive health, abortion policy and politics, teenage pregnancy and sexual health.

Please RSVP to Zoe Lennon (z.lennon@ulster.ac.uk) no later than Wednesday 29th October 2014