8th Biennial ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference

Dr Celia Roberts is a Professor in the School of Sociology, ANU. She works in Feminist Technoscience Studies and the social studies of reproduction. Her books include Messengers of Sex: Hormones, biomedicine and feminism (Cambridge UP, 2007). Puberty in Crisis: The sociology of early sexual development (Cambridge UP, 2015), and, with Adrian Mackenzie and Maggie Mort, Living Data: Making sense of health biosensing (Bristol UP, 2018). She has recently completed a co-authored book on reproduction and climate crisis, focusing on the 2019-20 Australian bushfires, and is currently working on a new ARC-funded, interdisciplinary and collaborative project, led by bioethicist, Professor Catherine Mills, (Monash) on the translation of epigenetic into antenatal care in Australia. Celia did her PhD in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Sydney, and worked in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University for 18 years before returning to Australia. She has long-standing interests in feminist and social studies of the biology of sex, pre- and post-natal development and the enduring effects of early life trauma.