About

My research is concerned with social relations — kin, gender, race, sexuality and class — knowledge production, affective governance, and inequalities in Nordic welfare state institutions and commercial establishments. I have explored the biotechnological practices of healthcare and family services, from publicly provided maternity care to private fertility treatments, industry and markets.

More recently my research has shifted toward transnational medical markets, economies and industry — particularly fertility markets involving a multimillion-euro donor reproductive tissue industry and multilevel chains of reproductive outsourcing. This is the focus of my ongoing Research Council of Finland project Gendered Ethics of Reproductive Time (ReproTime) (2024–2028), centred on Finland and the wider Nordic-Baltic region. My work is ethnographic and grounded in gender studies, sociology and feminist science and technology studies.

My recently ended projects include the Academy Fellow project Everyday Ethics of Reproductive Outsourcing (EEROS) (2019–2024) and the Kone Foundation funded Technology, Ethics and Reproduction (2019–2024) — bringing together social science and bioethics to examine the ethics of reproductive technologies.

I am also co-founder and leader of the Finnish Reproductive Studies Network (FiReSNet), together with Professor Mianna Meskus, through which we secured Finnish Cultural Foundation Argumenta funding for the Reproductive Futures project.

Previously I have worked at the University of Helsinki and Tampere University, and been a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of California Berkeley, Lancaster University, City University of New York, De Montfort University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

I am interested in supervising PhD and master’s theses on gender, health, medicine, medical technologies and reproduction through qualitative methods.