Leah Eades

- Name
- Leah Eades
- Title
- Organisation
- Social Anthropology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh EH8 9LD
- Telephone
- leah.eades [@] ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Medical anthropology, politics of reproduction, gender, social movements, medico-legal nexuses, authoritative and contested knowledge, medical humanities
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/social_anthropology/leah_eades
PhD Working Title
After the Eighth: An Ethnography of Abortion Liberalisation in Ireland
Supervisors
Dr Lucy Lowe
Dr Jessica Cooper
Funding
Alice Brown PhD Scholarship
Parkes Foundation PhD Grant
Awards & Honours
2019 Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR) Graduate Student Paper Award
2017 Dean's List, University College London
Education
PhD in Social Anthropology (in progress), University of Edinburgh
MSc in Medical Anthropology, University College London
BA in English, University of Bristol
Publications
Eades, L. (2020). 'What do abortion pills mean during a pandemic?'. Covid-19 Perspectives Blog, 8 May. blogs.ed.ac.uk/covid19perspectives/2020/05/08/what-do-abortion-pills-mean-in-a-pandemic-asks-leah-eades/.
Eades, L. (2019). ‘Social realities, biological realities: the 24-week fetus in contemporary English abortion activism’. Women's Studies International Forum, 74: 20-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2019.02.005.
Eades, L. (2017). ‘Dialogical (de)medicalisation in British abortion activism’. UCL Medical Anthropology Blog. 21 Nov. medanthucl.com/2017/11/21/dialogical-demedicalisation-in-british-abortion-activism/.
Selected Conference Papers
Eades, L. (2019). 'Accounting for the Anthropologist in the Social Lives of Medicines'. Medical Anthropology Young Scholars (MAYS) 10th Annual Meeting. University of Turin. 4-5th Jul.
Eades, L. (2019). ‘Abortion Pills: in the Post and in the Past’. BSA Human Reproduction Study Group Annual Conference. De Montfort University. 12th Jun.
Eades, L. (2018). ‘Contested biosociality: the tricky question of post-abortive identity’. Remaking Reproduction: The Global Politics of Reproductive Technologies. University of Cambridge. 27-29th Jun.
Teaching Experience
Social Anthropology 1A: The Life Course
Social Anthropology 1B: Anthropology Matters
Anthropology of Sex and Reproduction
Anthropology of Health and Healing
Workshops Organised
Organiser, Edinburgh Abortion Rights Film Festival (supported by an SPSS Research Student-led Special Projects Grant). March 2020.
Co-organiser, Resist: Abortion Rights, Access and Justice Workshop. University of Edinburgh. 19th July 2019.
Co-organiser, Durham-Edinburgh Advanced Workshop for Anthropological Research on Health, Medicine, and Wellbeing. Durham University. 1-2nd Apr 2019.
Memberships & Affiliations
Edinburgh Centre for Medical Anthropology member
Reproduction Edinburgh (RED) Network member
Students of Medical Anthropology representative
Re:think - a journal of creative ethnography editorial assistant