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Research profile
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):
Collaborations from the last five years
Projects
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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
Research output
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An analysis of the outcome of 11 712 men applying to be sperm donors in Denmark and the USA
Pacey, A. A., Pennings, G., Mocanu, E., Rothmar, J., Pinborg, A., Adrian, S. W., Burke, C. & Skytte, A. B., 1 Mar 2023, In: Human reproduction (Oxford, England). 38, 3, p. 352-358 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Experiences and attitudes of Danish men who were sperm donors more than 10 years ago; a qualitative interview study
Lou, S., Bollerup, S., Terkildsen, M. D., Adrian, S. W., Pacey, A., Pennings, G., Vogel, I. & Skytte, A-B., 15 Feb 2023, In: PLOS ONE. 18, 2, e0281022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Orchestrating moral bearability in the clinical management of second-trimester selective abortion
Heinsen, L. L., Bruheim, C. & Adrian, S. W., Dec 2023, In: Social Science and Medicine. 338, 116306.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Patient attitudes towards and satisfaction with subcutaneous injection of progesterone versus vaginal administration in assisted reproductive technology treatment
Buhl Borgstrøm, M., Willum Adrian, S., Nøhr, B., Peters Michaelsen, M., Cæcilie Nielsen, L., Bruun Gyldenvang, M. & Schiøler Kesmodel, U., Aug 2023, In: European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 287, p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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Gamete donation in the time of DNA surprises
Adrian, S. W., Ravn, T., Herrmann, J. R., Sylvest, R., Kokado, M., Semba, Y., Fencker, M., Skytte, A-B., Sellmer, A., Grønbæk, E., Wahlberg, A. & Kesmodel, U., Dec 2022, In: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 101, 12, p. 1348-1350 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)62 Downloads (Pure)
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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Activities
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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, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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Webinar om sene aborter
Camilla Bruheim (Organizer) & Stine W. Adrian (Organizer)
23 Sept 2021Activity: Attending an event › Organisation or participation in workshops, courses, seminars, exhibitions or similar
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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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Savnede støtte efter abort: Fire dage gjorde forskellen
14/10/2023
1 item of Media coverage
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Familieudvidelse: Far til 500
06/10/2023 → 09/10/2023
2 items of Media coverage
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Da hun havde efterladt sin døde søn på hospitalet, var der ingen hjælp
29/06/2023 → 30/06/2023
2 items of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media