Profiles
Dr Aimee Middlemiss
Research Fellow
School of Nursing and Midwifery (Faculty of Health)
Biography
Biography
Research fellow on the SIMCA project about the implementation of Midwifery Continuity of Carer in England.
PhD feminist ethnography of women's experiences of second trimester pregnancy loss in England.
Book forthcoming 2024: Invisible Labours: The reproductive politics of second trimester pregnancy loss in England, Berghahn Books
Qualifications
2021 PhD Sociology, University of Exeter
2017 MRes Science and Technology Studies, University of Exeter
1997 BA Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Professional membership
British Sociological Association
Association for the Study of Death and Society
Research
Research
Research interests
Interested in social science of reproduction and reproductive politics, death, personhood, kinship, bodies.
Other research
Research fellow on Studying Implementation of Midwifery Continuity of Carer (SIMCA)
Understanding different rates of progress with Midwifery Continuity of Carer implementation in the NHS in England
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsMiddlemiss, A L; Boncori, I; Brewis, J; Davies, J; Newton, V L (2023) Employment leave for early pregnancy endings in England and Wales: a biopolitical reproductive governance analysis. Gender Work and Organisation. Published Online First 08/08/23. doi.org/10.1111/gwao.13055, Open Access.
Middlemiss, A L; Kilshaw, S (2023) Further hierarchies of loss: Tracking relationality in pregnancy loss experiences. OMEGA Journal of Death and Dying. Published Online First 07/06/23. doi.org/10.1177/00302228231182, Open Access.
Middlemiss, A L (2022) Too big, too young, too risky: How diagnosis of the foetal body determines trajectories of care for the pregnant woman in pre-viability second trimester pregnancy loss. Sociology of Health and Illness, 44 (1): 81-98. Published Online First 25/11/21. doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13404, Open Access.
Middlemiss, A L (2021) Pregnancy remains, infant remains, or the corpse of a child? The incoherent governance of the dead foetal body in England. Mortality, 26 (3): 299-315. Published Online First 10/07/20. doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2020.1787365, Open Access.
Articles
(2023) 'Employment leave for early pregnancy endings: A biopolitical reproductive governance analysis in England and Wales' Gender, Work & Organization 31, (1) 75-91 , DOI
(2023) 'Further Hierarchies of Loss: Tracking Relationality in Pregnancy Loss Experiences' OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 003022282311822-003022282311822 , DOI
(2021) 'Too big, too young, too risky: How diagnosis of the foetal body determines trajectories of care for the pregnant woman in pre‐viability second trimester pregnancy loss' Sociology of Health & Illness 44, (1) 81-98 , DOI
(2020) 'Pregnancy remains, infant remains, or the corpse of a child? The incoherent governance of the dead foetal body in England' Mortality 26, (3) 299-315 , DOI
Chapters
Middlemiss, A (2021) Social death in the pandemic care home. In: Borgstrom, E and Mallon, S (Eds) Narratives of Covid: Loss, dying, death and grief during COVID-19. Pp: 54-59. Milton Keynes: The Open University. https://books2read.com/u/38dAla
Middlemiss, A L (March 2020) ‘It felt like the longest time of my life’: Using foetal Dopplers at home to manage anxiety about miscarriage. In: Kilshaw, S and Borg, K (Eds) Navigating miscarriage: Social, medical and conceptual perspectives. Pp: 160-183. Oxford, New York: Berghahn. https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/KilshawNavigating
(2020) ''It felt like the longest time of my life': Using foetal dopplers at home to manage anxiety about miscarriage' Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives 160-183