Processes of modernization have a significant influence on the culture of reproductive behaviour and engender new phenomena such as the transformation of family structure, changing gender roles, the postponed parenthood and new parenting practices. No less significant is the rapid development of assisted reproductive technologies, which, on the one hand, expand opportunities for the treatment of infertility and, on the other, lead to the emergence of new forms of reproductive behaviour and give rise to new ethical questions. The research group will be investigating the factors that influence reproductive behaviour and studying the current socio-demographic trends affecting the levels of wellbeing.
The key research areas will include the following:
Prof.Elvira Symanyuk, Dr.Sc.(Psychology), Head of the Department of General and Social Psychology of the Ural Institute for the Humanities (Ural Federal University).
Her main academic areas of interest include ethics and psychology of assisted reproduction, donation in reproduction, motivation of gamete donation, embryo donation and surrogate motherhood.
Prof.Nadezhda Bashmakova, Dr.Sc.(Medicine), the Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Ural Federal District, Head of the Department of Assisted Reproduction Technologies, chief researcher of the Research Institute for Mother and Child Welfare of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Her main academic areas of interest include public reproductive health, infertility issues, assisted reproductive technologies, ethics and psychology of assisted reproduction.
Irina Polyakova, researcher of the Ural Interregional Institute of Social Studies of the Ural Institute for the Humanities (Ural Federal University), reproductive psychologist.
Her main academic areas of interest include psychological support and counseling in assisted reproduction, methods used for the facilitation of recipients' reproductive decision-making; motivations of donors in assisted reproduction; the role of partners in gamete donors' decision-making; advantages and disadvantages of donor anonymity; donor-recipient (recipient couple) dyad.
Andal Aireen Grace is a research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies of Toleration and Recognition (Ural Federal University) and a PhD researcher under a Double-PhD track in Social Sciences (Macquarie University, Australia) and Social Philosophy (Ural Federal University, Russian Federation).
Her academic engagements involve early childhood development and anthropological research on children’s voices on the urban spaces they occupy, with emphasis on slum-dwelling communities. Her recent publications include journal articles and book chapters on children’s urban playscapes and digital geographies with children.
Marina Valeeva, Cand.Sc.(Sociology), senior researcher of the Laboratory of Scientometrics of the Ural Federal University.
Her main academic areas of interest include sociology of the family and marital relations, sociology of gender relations, sociology of health, sociology of science
Mark Itskovich, Cand.Sc.(Psychology), Head of the Department of Correctional Pedagogy and Psychology of the Ural Federal University, Director of Special Boarding School № 17, organizer of the psychological and social counseling service of the Maternity Obstetrics Service of Ministry of Health of Sverdlovsk Region; chief psychologist of the program Za Zhizn, providing assistance to women and children in difficult circumstances; supervisor of the distress line for pregnant women and families with children
His main academic areas of interest include assisted reproductive technologies, reproductive psychology and psychopharmacology, correctional pedagogy and psychology, imaginative psychotherapy and psychosomatic therapy
Yulia Mokerova, Cand.Sc.(Sociology), assistant professor of the Department of Applied Sociology of the Ural Institute for the Humanities (Ural Federal University).
Her main academic areas of interest include reproductive donation, reproductive behaviour and attitudes towards parenthood, health and modern nutritional practices and policies, urban life style, mobilities, consumption.
Anna Ozhiganova, Cand.Sc.(History), senior researcher of the Centre for Medical Anthropology of the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography n.a. N.N. Miklukho-Maklai of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Her main academic areas of interest include medical anthropology, anthropology of birth and obstetrics, anthropology of religion. Her research interests lie at the intersection of such topics as modern religiosity, recreation and reproductive practices, and alternative social movements.
Alexandra Khramtsova, obstetrician-gynecologist, diagnostic medical sonographer, junior researcher of the Research Institute for Mother and Child Welfare of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
Her main academic areas of interest include infertility, assisted reproductive technologies, IVF, ethics in reproductive medicine
Maria Yantsen
Researcher of the Laboratory of Comparative Studies of Toleration and Recognition of the Ural Institute for the Humanities (Ural Federal University)
Her main academic areas of interest include qualitative methods in philosophical anthropology, motherhood and its practices, including motherhood as a space for the Other and delayed motherhood.
Created / Updated: 25 January 2022 / 25 January 2022