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Stine Willum Adrian is an Associate Professor in Techno-Anthropology at Aalborg University, Denmark. She is trained as a sociologist and holds a PhD in feminist STS and cultural analysis from the Department of Gender Studies, Linköping University, Sweden. Adrian’s work has always been interdisciplinary joining ethnography of medical technologies and feminist theory with cultural analysis, ethics and law. Her research interests lie in questions concerning reproductive technologies of life and death, gender, intersectionality, the entanglement of technologies, ethics and ethnographic methods. Theoretically she is particularly interested in feminist materialisms.
Over the years, Adrian has carried out several comprehensive ethnographic fieldworks of reproductive technologies. Her PhD engaged in new creation stories at fertility clinics and sperm banks in Denmark and Sweden. By following egg, sperm and the embryos as field imaginaries, she inquired into what emerge, as reproductive technologies are used at fertility clinics. Subsequently she has studied the globalization of Danish sperm and the increase in fertility travelers coming to Denmark for donor sperm. This study got her engaged in inquiring how ethics emerge and is being negotiated in relation to sperm banking and sperm donation. Adrian is also researching kinship, love and legacy, as men are having sperm deposits in private sperm banks. Currently Adrian is a PI of the project called Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life funded by the Danish Independent Research Fund. The research program, draws on Adrian’s extensive techno-anthropological research experiences studying the technologies of life. In this project this agenda is turned around, now focusing on technologies of death by asking: How does technology remake death and dying at the beginning of life?
Adrian is published in journals like European Journal of Women’s Studies, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, BioSocieties and Science as Culture.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Technologies of Death and Dying at the Beginning of Life
Adrian, S. W., Heinsen, L. L., Bach, A. S. & Herrmann, J. R.
Independent Research Fund Denmark
01/01/2020 → 31/12/2023
Project: Research
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Ice Age: Entangled Lives, Times, and Ethics in Fertility Preservation.
01/08/2017 → 31/07/2020
Project: Research
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KinTra: (Trans)Formations of Kinship: Travelling in Search of Relatedness
Adrian, S. W., Kroløkke, C., Hvidtfeldt Madsen, K., Tjørnhøj-Thomsen, T., Soelmark, N., Harrison, K. & Myong, L.
03/11/2011 → 31/12/2014
Project: Research
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Patients’ choices and opinions on chorionic villous sampling and non-invasive alternatives for prenatal testing following preimplantation genetic testing for hereditary disorders: A cross-sectional questionnaire study
Frisk Toft, C. L., Diemer, T., Ingerslev, H. J., Pedersen, I. S., Adrian, S. W. & Kesmodel, U. S., Feb 2022, In: Prenatal Diagnosis. 42, 2, p. 212-225 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The overuse of intrapartum cardiotocography (CTG) for low-risk women: An actor-network theory analysis of data from focus groups
Jepsen, I., Blix, E., Cooke, H., Adrian, S. W. & Maude, R., 22 Jan 2022, In: Women and Birth.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Feministisk STS
Adrian, S. W., 1 Feb 2021, Videnskab, teknologi og samfund: en introduktion til STS. 1 ed. Hans Reitzels ForlagResearch output: Contribution to book/anthology/report/conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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Monstrous Motherhood: Women on the Edge of Reproductive Age
Adrian, S. W., Kroløkke, C. & Herrmann, J., 2021, In: Science as Culture. 30, 4, p. 491-512 22 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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The Long March Through the Patriarchal Institutions: A Dialogue Between Rosi Braidotti and Nina Lykke
Skewes, L. & Adrian, S. W., 10 Aug 2021, In: Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics. 5, 2, 20.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Prizes
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Årets Underviser: Studienævnet for teknoantropologi, bæredygtig design og integrerede fødevarestudier
Adrian, Stine W. (Recipient), 2018
Prize: Educational prizes
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The Political Attack on Gender Studies. Experiences from Denmark
Stine W. Adrian (Lecturer)
29 Oct 2021Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lecturers
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Technologies at Heart – the remaking of death, at the medical frontier
Stine W. Adrian (Lecturer)
7 Oct 2021Activity: Talks and presentations › Conference presentations
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4S Annual Meeting 2021
Stine W. Adrian (Organizer), Laura Louise Heinsen (Organizer) & Anna Sofie Bach (Organizer)
7 Oct 2021Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, or seminars
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Webinar om sene aborter
Camilla Bruheim (Organizer) & Stine W. Adrian (Organizer)
23 Sep 2021Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, or seminars
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Subversive Practices of Donor Sperm. Ethics on the Border
Stine W. Adrian (Lecturer)
2 Jul 2021Activity: Talks and presentations › Guest lecturers
Press / Media
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Vi kontrollerer vores kroppe med apps. Men kan de også hjælpe graviditeten på vej?
10/03/2022
1 item of Media coverage
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Kvinder skal have lov til at inseminere sig selv, mener man i sædbanker, der vil af med forbud
05/02/2022 → 06/02/2022
2 items of Media coverage
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’HEALTH HUMANITIES’ - ET NETVÆRK, DER BYGGER BRO MELLEM HUMANIORA, SAMFUNDSVIDENSKAB OG DEN MEDICINSKE FORSKNING
Anita Naemi Holm, Inge Søkilde Pedersen & Stine W. Adrian
10/06/2021
1 item of Media coverage
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