• Lee

  Dr Ellie Lee

  Senior lecturer in social policy

  University of Kent
  

  Ellie is a senior lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Kent. She previously worked at Southampton University as a lecturer, and then as research fellow. She is the author of Abortion, Motherhood, and Mental Health: Medicalizing Reproduction in the US and Britain (Aldine Transaction, 2003) and has written many articles about abortion, contraception, reproductive technologies, and parenthood. Her most recent work discusses ‘late’ abortion; post-natal depression; feeding babies; and policy advising pregnant women to abstain from alcohol. Her research appears in articles in the journals including Health, Risk and Society, Sociology of Health and Illness and Reproductive Health Matters. She is the coordinator of the academic networks Pro-Choice Forum and Parenting Culture Studies. She is the Director of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies based in SSPSSR and regularly discusses her research in the media. Her work explores why everyday issues – for example how mothers feed their babies - turn into major preoccupations for policy makers and become heated topics of wider public debate.

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