Funded by Wellcome and running from 2022 to 2026, the Future of Human Reproduction was an innovative, interdisciplinary research programme exploring the cultural, ethical, legal and social challenges that emerge as technological advances fundamentally change the possibilities for human reproduction. This site is preserved as an archive of the project's research, events, and outputs

The programme pushed academic boundaries by developing new methods, research agendas and interdisciplinary ways of working to tackle the conceptual and ethical implications of a range of future reproductive scenarios, including:

• Ectogenesis: The development of fetuses outside the human body;
• In-Vitro Gametogenesis: new methods of creating eggs and sperm that will allow the creation of children with two same-sex genetic parents, multiple genetic parents, or just one genetic parent; and,
• Genome editing: enabling a greater degree of control over the genetic makeup of future people.

The programme's unique interdisciplinary team brought together a diverse range of voices from within and outside academia, opening up debates about reproductive futures and shaping the direction of humanities, social sciences and bioethics research in this area.