Professor Catherine Waldby
Areas of expertise
- Sociology And Social Studies Of Science And Technology 160808
- Culture, Gender, Sexuality 200205
- Globalisation And Culture 200206
- Economic Theory 1401
- Social Theory 160806
Research interests
Social studies of biomedicine and the life sciences, particularly in HIV/AIDS, the relations between medicine and sexuality, modes of medical imaging and representation, the stem cell sciences, Synthetic Biology and human tissue economies.
Professor Waldby has published six monographs and over fifty papers in a broad range of journals. Her work is highly cited in the humanities and medical sciences as well as the social sciences.
Biography
Professor Catherine Waldby is Director of the Research School of Social Sciences, at the Australian National University, and Visiting Professor at the Department of Social Science and Medicine at King’s College London. Her researches focuses on social studies of biomedicine and the life sciences. Her recent books include The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Regenerative Medicine in Transition, (with Herbert Gottweis and Brian Salter, Palgrave 2009) and Clinical Labour: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (with Melinda Cooper, Duke University Press 2014). With Nikolas Rose and Hannah Landecker, she is the editor of BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for the social studies of life sciences. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a member of the History and Philosophy committee of the Academy of Science. She has received national and international research grants for her work on stem cells, blood donation and biobanking.
Researcher's projects
Project Grants
2020-2022 A/Prof. Wendy Lipworth, Prof Ian Kerridge, Prof. William Ledger, Prof. Robert Norman, Prof Cameron Stewart Associate Prof Ainsley Newson, Prof Isabel Karpin, Prof Catherine Mills, Prof Catherine Waldby, Dr Christopher Mayes ‘Addressing Commercial Influences in Assisted Reproductive Technology’ NHMRC Project APP1181401 $794,576
2018-2021 Katherine Carroll and Catherine Waldby ‘Lactation after loss in contemporary motherhood and healthcare delivery’ ARC DP 180100517, $371,815.
2015-2018 Prof Cameron Stewart, A/Prof Ian Kerridge, Prof Catherine Waldby, A/Prof Megan Munsie, Dr Wendy Lipworth, Dr Tamra Lysaght. ‘Regulating Autologous Stem Cell Therapies in Australia’ Australian Research Council Linkage Project LP150100739. Partner organizations: Multiple Sclerosis Research Australia, Arthritis Australia, Motor Neurone Disease Association of Australia, $598,622
2015-2018 CIs Ian Kerridge, Catherine Waldby, Cameron Stewart, Simon Easteal, Robert Cumming, Emma Kowal, Warwick Anderson, Wendy Lipworth, Christine Critchley, Paula Marlton ‘Biobank Networks, Medical Research and the Challenge of Globalisation’ NHMRC Project APP1083980, $763,644
2008-2011 CIs Catherine Waldby, Ian Kerridge & Loane Skene, ‘Human Oöcytes for Stem Cell Research: Donation and Regulation in Australia’. Industry Partner: Western Sydney IVF. Australian Research Council Linkage Project - LP0882054, $305,000
2005-2008 Brian Salter and Catherine Waldby Chief Investigators ‘The global biopolitics of human embryonic stem cells’ ESRC Project Grant, RES-340-25-0001, £271,810
2006-2008 The Austrian Genome Research Program – ‘the Genome-Austria Tissue Bank’ Chief Investigator: Professor Kurt Zatloukal. €1.3 million Subprogram 2: Biobanks and the local/global, socio-economic, scientific-technological, ethical, and political context. Convenor: Professor Herbert Gottweis (Austria), Principle Investigators Dr. Catherine Waldby (Australia), Dr. Rob Mitchell (USA), Professor Gísli Pálsson (Iceland), Professor Ruth Chadwick (UK), €300,000
2003-2004 N. Wakeford, C. Waldby & N. Green 'Constructing the future of feminist science and technology studies’ ESRC Research Seminar Grant RES-451-26-0106, £8,720
2001 - 2003 C. Waldby, S Kippax & M Rosengarten ‘An analysis of blood awareness for Hepatitis C prevention education and health promotion’. National Health and Medical Research Project Grant 002714, $195,000
Fellowships and Scholarships
2011 – 2015 C. Waldby ‘The Oöcyte economy: The changing meanings of human eggs in fertility, assisted reproduction and stem cell research’ ARC Future Fellowship FT100100176, 851, 087
2008 Andrew Webster and Catherine Waldby (Host collaborator), International Visiting Research Fellowship, Sydney University - The social studies of biomedical science: building research capacity and collaboration, $11,500
2008 ESRC International Visiting Research Fellowship - to visit Centre for Biomedicine & Society, King's College, London, £2750
2006-2011 International Research Fellowship, University of Sydney, $100,000
2004 Faculty Fellowship, UNSW - to complete manuscript ‘Tissue Economies’, $29,666
Research Network Grants
Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia Workshop: The Survey and the State: How social science expertise made the Twentieth Century. Monash University, Melbourne, 13 – 14 July 2016 Convenors: Dr Clare Corbould, Dr Charlotte Greenhalgh, Professor Warwick Anderson FASSA, Professor Catherine Waldby FASSA. $9000
University of Sydney Research Network Scheme (2013-15): Network for Bodies, Organs and Tissues (NBOT), $280,000
European Commission’s COST (Collaboration in Science and Technology) programme: ‘Bio-objects and their boundaries: governing matters at the intersection of society, politics, and science’. COST Action IS1001, € 500,000
Sydney University International Program Grant (2011-2013) ‘Bio-objects and their boundaries: governing matters at the intersection of society, politics, and science’, $34,000
Sydney University Institute of Social Sciences ‘Biopolitics of Science’ research network, $28,000
Sydney University International Program Development Grant (2009 – 2010) ‘Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context', $17, 900
External Infrastructure Funds
2003-4 Ian Robinson & Catherine Waldby - Sociology Research Centres bid for Science Research Infrastructure Funding (Higher Education Funding Council for England), £75,000
Consultancies
2002 - The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, UK 'Social and bioethical implications of sex preselection technology', £2,320
2000-2001 C. Waldby & S. Kippax ‘Evaluation of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations/National Association of People Living with HIV/AIDS education project’, $101,030
Scientific Advisory Committees
Member of the History and Philosophy of Science Committee, Australian Academy of Science 2016 onwards.
International reference group member, ‘Towards an Ethics of Bodily Giving and Sharing in Medicine” Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies and Linköping University, Sweden 2012-2014.
Scientific Committee, Society For Social Studies Of Science (4S) & European Association For The Study of Science and Technology (EASST) Biannual meeting, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 20-23 August 2008
International Advisory Committee, ‘Regenerative medicine in Europe: emerging needs and challenges in a global context’ EU FP7 project 2008-2010.
Bioethical Advisory Committee, Genome Austria Tissue Bank, June 2006 - 2008.
Scientific Advisory Committee, National Centre for HIV Social Research, UNSW, 2001 - 2010
Publications
- Lysaght, T, Lipworth, W, Hendl, T et al 2017, 'The deadly business of an unregulated global stem cell industry', Journal of Medical Ethics, vol. 43, no. 11, pp. 744-746.
- Waldby, C 2015, ''Banking time': egg freezing and the negotiation of future fertility', Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 470-482.
- Cooper, M, Waldby, C & Reuschling, F 2015, Sie nennen es Leben, wir nennen es Arbeit: Globale Bioökonomie im 21. Jahrhundert, edition assemblage, Munster.
- Waldby, C 2015, 'The oocyte market and social egg freezing: From scarcity to singularity', Journal of Cultural Economy, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 275-291.
- Boulos, M, Kerridge, I & Waldby, C 2014, 'Reciprocity in the Donation of Reproductive Oöcytes', in Meredith Nash (ed.), Reframing Reproduction: Conceiving Gendered Experience, Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 203-220pp.
- Waldby, C & Prainsack, B 2014, 'Valediction for Herbert Gottweis', BioSocieties: An Interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 457-459.
- Cooper, M & Waldby, C 2014, Clinical labor: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Bioeconomy, Duke University Press, Durham. Italian Translation (2015) Biolavoro globale: Corpi e nuove forme di manodopera. Derive Approdi Translated by Angela Balzano, afterword by Carlo Flamigni. ISBN 978-88-6548-112-7
- Waldby, C, Kerridge, I, Boulos, M et al 2013, 'From altruism to monetisation: Australian women's ideas about money, ethics and research eggs', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 94, pp. 34-42.
- Waldby, C & Carroll, K 2012, 'Egg donation for stem cell research: ideas of surplus and deficit in Australian IVF patients' and reproductive donors' accounts', Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 513-528.
- Waldby, C 2012, 'Reproductive Labour Arbitrage: Trading Fertility across European Borders', in Fredrik Svenaeus and Martin Gunnarson (ed.), The Body as Gift, Resource, and Commodity: Exchanging Organs, Tissues, and Cells in the 21st Century, Sodertorns hogskola, Sweden, pp. 267-295pp.
- Waldby, C 2012, 'Medicine: The Ethics of Care, the Subject of Experiment Afterword', Body & Society, vol. 18, no. 3-4, pp. 179-192.
- Waldby, C, Kerridge, I & Skene, L 2012, 'Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Donation of Stem Cells and Reproductive Tissue', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 15-17.
- Waldby, C & Carroll, K 2012, 'Informed Consent and Fresh Egg Donation for Stem Cell Research Incorporating Embodied Knowledge Into Ethical Decision-Making', Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 29-39.
- Waldby, C & Salter, B 2011, 'Biopolitics in China: An introduction', East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 287-290.
- Waldby, C 2011, 'Citizenship, Labor and The Biopolitics of the Bioeconomy: Recruiting Female Tissue for Stem-Cell Research', Scholar & Feminist Online (S&F Online), vol. Market Spring 9.1/9.2, pp. http://sfonline.barnard.edu/reprotech/waldby_01.ht.
- Lenne, B & Waldby, C 2011, 'Sorting out autism spectrum disorders: Evidence-based medicine and the complexities of the clinical encounter', Health Sociology Review, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 70-83.
- Webster, A, Haddad, C & Waldby, C 2011, 'Experimental heterogeneity and standardisation: Stem cell products and the clinical trial process', BioSocieties: An Interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 401-419.
- Waldby, C & Cooper, M 2010, 'From reproductive work to regenerative labour: The female body and the stem cell industries', Feminist Theory, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 3-22.
- Mitchell, R & Waldby, C 2010, 'National biobanks: Clinical labor, risk production, and the creation of biovalue', Science, Technology & Human Values, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 330-355.
- Gottweis, H, Salter, B & Waldby, C 2009, The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Regenerative Medicine in Transition, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke and New York.
- Waldby, C 2009, 'Biobanking in Singapore: Post-developmental state, experimental population', New Genetics and Society, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 253-265.
- Waldby, C 2009, 'Singapore Biopolis: Bare life in the city-state', East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal, vol. 3, no. 2-3, pp. 367-383.
- Waldby, C & Salter, B 2008, 'Global Governance in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science: Standardisation and Bioethics in Research and Patenting', Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology, vol. 2, no. 1.
- Waldby, C 2008, 'Building a feminist research culture: A dialogue with Susan Kippax', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 58, pp. 519-523.
- Waldby, C & Cooper, M 2008, 'The biopolitics of reproduction: Post-Fordist biotechnology and women's clinical labour', Australian Feminist Studies, vol. 23, no. 55, pp. 57-73.
- Waldby, C 2008, 'Oocyte markets: Women's reproductive work in embryonic stem cell research', New Genetics and Society, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 19-31.
- Mitchell, R & Waldby, C 2006, Tissue economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism, Duke University Press, Durham.
- Waldby, C 2006, 'Feminist Technoscience: Intimacy, Embodiment and Abjection in Science Studies', Science Studies, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 3-5.
- Squier, S & Waldby, C 2005, 'Our posthuman future: Discussing the consequences of biotechnological advances', The Hastings Center Report, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 4-7.
- Waldby, C, Rosengarten, M, Treloar, C et al 2004, 'Blood and bioidentity: Ideas about self, boundaries and risk among blood donors and people living with Hepatitis C', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 59, no. 7, pp. 1461-1471.
- Waldby, C 2002, 'Stem cells, tissue cultures and the production of biovalue', Health, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 305-323.
- Waldby, C 2001, 'Code unknown: Histories of the gene', Social Studies of Science, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 779-791.
- Waldby, C 2000, The visible human project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine, Routledge, London.
- Waldby, C 2000, 'Virtual anatomy: From the body in the text to the body on the screen', Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 85-107.
- Waldby, C 1997, 'The body and the digital archive: The Visible Human Project and the computerization of medicine', Health, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 227-243.
- Waldby, C 1997, AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference, Routledge, London.
- Waldby, C 1997, 'Revenants: The Visible human project and the digital uncanny', Body & Society, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-16.
Projects and Grants
Grants information is drawn from ARIES. To add or update Projects or Grants information please contact your College Research Office.
- Lactation after loss in contemporary motherhood and healthcare delivery. (Secondary Investigator)
- ACOLA Synthetic Biology Report (Primary Investigator)
- Family, Domestic and Sexual Violence within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities Study (Secondary Investigator)
