Julie Kent (sociologist) explained

Julie Kent
Birth Date:	^[1]
Fields:	Bioethics, cell therapy, feminist bioethics, biobased economies
Workplaces:	University of the West of England
Known For:	Bioethics, cell therapy, feminist bioethics, biobased economies

Dr. Julie Kent (born 1957)^[1] is a Professor of Sociology at the University of the West of England.^[2]

Career

Kent obtained her Bachelors of Science in Sociology degree from the University of Bath in 1990. She then later graduated from the University of Bristol with a PhD in sociology in 1995, and in 2007 became a professor of Sociology of Health Technology. Kent was a member of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) Committee on Safety Devices and is now Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee at the University of the West of England.^[3]

At the 2006 Stem Cell Ethics Workshop in London, Kent gave a lecture on ethics and regulations in the world of the fetus alongside Professor Naomi Pfeffer.^[4]

In late 2012, along with Dr. Maria Fannin from the University of Bristol, Kent won a grant from the Wellcome Trust to fund a research project into placental tissue.^[5]

Kent has received more than £224,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council. One grant was worth more than £79,000 for research into tissue and cell technologies,^[6] and another was worth more than £145,000 for fetal stem cell research.^[7]

Bibliography

Books

• Book: Kent, Julie . Social perspectives on pregnancy and chilbirth for midwives, nurses and the caring professions . Open University Press . Buckingham Philadelphia . 2000 . 9780335199112 .
• Book: Kent, Julie . Regenerating bodies : tissue and cell therapies in the twenty-first century . Routledge . London New York . 2012 . 9780415688819 .

Journal articles

• Kent . Julie . Bell . Margaret . Noakes . Sara . Looking after children: implications for social work education . Children & Society . 12 . 3 . 242–243 . 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00075.x . June 1998 .
• Kent . Julie . Faulkner . Alex . Regulating human implant technologies in Europe - understanding the new era in medical device regulation . Health, Risk & Society . 4 . 2 . 189–209 . 10.1080/13698570220137060 . 2002 . 71863538 .
• Kent . Julie . Goodenough . Trudy . Williamson . Emma . Ashcroft . Richard . What did you think about that? Researching children's perceptions of participation in a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study . Children & Society . 17 . 2 . 113–125 . 10.1002/CHI.739 . April 2003 .
• Kent . Julie . Lay experts and the politics of breast implants . Public Understanding of Science . 12 . 4 . 401–419 . 10.1177/0963662503124005 . October 2003 . 14971402 . 40743053 .
• Kent . Julie . Sellman . Derek . Ethics and governance of research . Centre for Critical Theory Members Conference - What is Research? . January 2005 .
• Kent . Julie . Goodenough . Trudy . Williamson . Emma . Ashcroft . Richard . Conducting research with children: the limits of confidentiality and child protection protocols . Children & Society . 19 . 5 . 397–409 . 10.1002/chi.852 . November 2005 .
• Kent . Julie . Faulkner . Alex . Geesink . Ingrid . Fitzatrick . David . Towards governance of human tissue engineered technologies in Europe: framing the case for a new regulatory regime . Technological Forecasting and Social Change . 73 . 1 . 41–60 . 10.1016/j.techfore.2005.06.006 . January 2006 .
• Kent . Julie . Faulkner . Alex . Geesink . Ingrid . Fitzatrick . David . Culturing cells, reproducing and regulating the self . Body & Society . 12 . 2 . 1–23 . 10.1177/1357034X06064296 . June 2006 . 10.1.1.507.4367 . 145755822 .
• Kent . Julie . Fletcher . Catherine . Boden . Rebecca . Tinson . Julie . Performing women: the gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy . Gender, Work & Organization . 14 . 5 . 433–453 . 10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00359.x . September 2007 . 1893/687 . free .
• Kent . Julie . Faulkner . Alex . Geesink . Ingrid . Fitzatrick . David . Tissue-engineered technologies: scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in Europe . Science as Culture . 17 . 2 . 195–222 . 10.1080/09505430802062950 . 2008 . 144985725 .
• Kent . Julie . The fetal tissue economy: from the abortion clinic to the stem cell laboratory . Social Science and Medicine . 67 . 11 . 1747–1756 . 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.09.027 . December 2008 . 18945530 .
• Kent . Julie . Busby . Helen . Farrell . Anne-Maree . Revaluing donor and recipient bodies in the globalised blood economy: transitions in public policy on blood safety in the United Kingdom. . Health. 17 . 2 . 77–94 . 10.1177/1363460706053336 . March 2013 . 23467898 . 3930469 . 10.1.1.452.7825 .

Contributions

• Webster, Andrew. New Technologies in Health Care: Challenge, Change and Innovation. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.

See also

• Gender studies
  • • Bioethics Cell therapy Feminist bioethics
• Biobased economies
• Placenta
• Stem cell research

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. Web site: VIAF. Julie Kent. Virtual International Authority File. 10 August 2013.
2. Web site: Professor of Sociology. Kent. Julie. University of the West of England. 15 July 2013.
3. Web site: Professor Julie Kent - UWE Bristol. people.uwe.ac.uk. en-us. 2017-03-07.
4. Web site: Stem Cell Ethics Workshop.
5. Web site: Dr Maria Fannin wins Wellcome Trust small grant for placental tissue research project. 23 October 2013. University of Bristol, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. 15 July 2013.
6. Web site: Regenerating bodies: tissue and cell technologies in the 21st century. 23 October 2013. Economic and Social Research Council (grant ref: RES-350-27-0004). 15 July 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131227164644/http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-350-27-0004/read. 27 December 2013.
7. Web site: Forgotten fetuses-a sociocultural analysis of the use of fetal stem cells. 23 October 2013. Economic and Social Research Council, (grant ref: RES-340-25-0002). 15 July 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20131227165334/http://www.esrc.ac.uk/my-esrc/grants/RES-340-25-0002/read. 27 December 2013.