Susan Golombok FBA FAcSS is Professor Emerita of Family Research at the University of Cambridge and was director of the University of Cambridge Centre for Family Research from 2006 until 2022. She spent the first 10 years of her career at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and then joined City University as a Lecturer in Psychology in 1987, where she founded the Family and Child Psychology Research Centre to conduct research on new family forms. She was appointed Professor of Psychology in 1993. Susan has pioneered research on lesbian mother families, gay father families, single parents by choice, and families with transgender parents, as well as families created by assisted reproductive technologies including in vitro fertilisation (IVF), donor insemination, egg donation and surrogacy. Her research has challenged commonly held assumptions about these families as well as widely held theories of child development, and it has contributed to policy and legislation on the family both nationally and internationally. She was a member of the UK government’s surrogacy review committee in the late 1990s, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics Working Party on Donor Conception in 2012-13, and the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing in 2019-20. She has published more than 300 academic papers and book chapters, and authored several books, including the award winning, Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms. Her most recent book is, We Are Family: What Really Matters for Parents and Children.
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