Marilyn Crawshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 363910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn Crawshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Crawshaw |
| SIGNATURE | CRAWSHAW M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2870-0506 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using a Volunteer Friends Support Scheme in a Temporary Relocation Programme
This article describes a voluntary Friends Scheme that sits alongside a temporary relocation scheme for Human Rights Defenders at the University of York, UK. Members of the Scheme, including the scheme’s co-ordinators, are all volunteers drawn from the local community with a remit to befriend the Defenders, help orient them to the city and UK lifestyles and offer the opportunity to experience day-to-day life outside of the university. With the er…
Searching for ‘relations’ using a DNA linking register by adults conceived following sperm donation
Revisiting the use of ‘counselling’ as a means of preparing prospective parents to meet the emerging psychosocial needs of families that have used gamete donation
Third party reproduction is an increasingly important part of family building but also challenges societal understanding of family and ‘kin’ relationships as being primarily hetero-normative and based on genetic connection. At the same time, understanding of the longer-term psycho-social implications of gamete donation is changing as knowledge grows. Research, professional and personal experiences demonstrate that a range of meanings can be trigg…
Secrets and disclosure in donor conception
This article considers the disclosure, sharing and exchange of information on being donor conceived within families, drawing on data from a study undertaken with donor-conceived adults registered withUKDonor Link (a voluntaryDNA-linking register). This paper considers the narratives of how respondents found out they were donor-conceived and what events triggered disclosure of this information. This paper then goes on to examine the role secrecy p…
Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction
Voluntary DNA-based information exchange and contact services following donor conception
Medical science has enabled the creation of families through the use of donor conception but some lifelong policy and practice implications are only recently being recognized. Research and practice have shown that donor conception can, for some, carry substantial long-term consequences. In this paper we present findings from a questionnaire-based study that sought to shed light on donor-conceived adults’ and gamete donors’ views on service and su…
Emerging models for facilitating contact between people genetically related through donor conception
The 'New Family' as an Emerging Norm
Biomedicine, bioethics and the law dominate policy and practice in controversial methods of creating families through assisted reproductive technologies including cross-border reproductive care and surrogacy. This commentary discusses the ascendancy of 'the right-to-parent' lobby in global free markets where individualism, neo-liberal and neo-feminist perspectives, consumerism and porous state borders thrive and legislative frameworks only regula…
Clinical encounters and culturally competent practice
This qualitative paper compares how practitioners respond to adults from two ethnic groupings (defined for analytical purposes as South Asian and White), whose fertility is threatened by cancer.Our findings suggest practitioners, in their struggle to offer culturally sensitive care, negotiate various competing ideas, reflecting wider cultural assumptions underpinning notions of ethnicity, gender, fertility and responsible parenthood within the co…
Working at the Margins
Unlike many contemporary social work tasks, the work of Parental Order Reporters (PORs) in surrogacy cases in England is infrequent and unresearched. This study offers insights into how experienced social workers approach work in little-regulated but ethically complex contexts outside the mainstream. Sixteen PORs took part in telephone interviews about their experiences in providing court reports on over 135 applications. There was little evidenc…
The changing profile of surrogacy in the UK – Implications for national and international policy and practice
Since 2007, the numbers of UK Parental Orders granted following surrogacy have markedly increased. More recently, eligibility criteria have been extended to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples rather than only married couples. Numbers seeking fertility treatments, including through surrogates, outside their country of residence have also increased. This paper presents the limited data currently available – from UK General Register…
Promoting change through research and evidence-informed practice
This article reports on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between a local authority and a university, the aim of which is to encourage a culture of evidence-informed practice and continual improvement across the local authority’s Family Services Directorate as part of its performance management framework and to ensure that the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care (DH, 2001) is fully implemented. The article describes th…
Sexuality and Fertility Issues in Ill Health and Disability
Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK-a critical appraisal
Adoption Reform
While many aspects of current government policy on adoption are welcome, there is concern that some key issues in the adoption process are not adequately addressed in the Adoption and Children Bill, 2001, and that the use of quantitative targets will not necessarily support the good practice identified. In this article Margaret Bell, Kate Wilson and Marilyn Crawshaw consider, in particular, two areas of difficulty in the selection and preparation…
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
In this paper the authors, all experienced social workers with research and practice interests in assisted conception, review practices concerning access to genetic origins information in adoption, and consider to what extent these may be relevant for practice in donor‐assisted conception. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations that take account of the views of donor offspring and their desire for increased information about…
Secrets and disclosure in donor conception
This article considers the disclosure, sharing and exchange of information on being donor conceived within families, drawing on data from a study undertaken with donor-conceived adults registered withUKDonor Link (a voluntaryDNA-linking register). This paper considers the narratives of how respondents found out they were donor-conceived and what events triggered disclosure of this information. This paper then goes on to examine the role secrecy p…
The changing profile of surrogacy in the UK – Implications for national and international policy and practice
Since 2007, the numbers of UK Parental Orders granted following surrogacy have markedly increased. More recently, eligibility criteria have been extended to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples rather than only married couples. Numbers seeking fertility treatments, including through surrogates, outside their country of residence have also increased. This paper presents the limited data currently available – from UK General Register…
Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
In this paper the authors, all experienced social workers with research and practice interests in assisted conception, review practices concerning access to genetic origins information in adoption, and consider to what extent these may be relevant for practice in donor‐assisted conception. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations that take account of the views of donor offspring and their desire for increased information about…
Emerging models for facilitating contact between people genetically related through donor conception
Revisiting the use of ‘counselling’ as a means of preparing prospective parents to meet the emerging psychosocial needs of families that have used gamete donation
Third party reproduction is an increasingly important part of family building but also challenges societal understanding of family and ‘kin’ relationships as being primarily hetero-normative and based on genetic connection. At the same time, understanding of the longer-term psycho-social implications of gamete donation is changing as knowledge grows. Research, professional and personal experiences demonstrate that a range of meanings can be trigg…
Adoption Reform
While many aspects of current government policy on adoption are welcome, there is concern that some key issues in the adoption process are not adequately addressed in the Adoption and Children Bill, 2001, and that the use of quantitative targets will not necessarily support the good practice identified. In this article Margaret Bell, Kate Wilson and Marilyn Crawshaw consider, in particular, two areas of difficulty in the selection and preparation…
Working at the Margins
Unlike many contemporary social work tasks, the work of Parental Order Reporters (PORs) in surrogacy cases in England is infrequent and unresearched. This study offers insights into how experienced social workers approach work in little-regulated but ethically complex contexts outside the mainstream. Sixteen PORs took part in telephone interviews about their experiences in providing court reports on over 135 applications. There was little evidenc…
Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK-a critical appraisal
The implications of adoption for donor offspring following donor‐assisted conception
In this paper the authors, all experienced social workers with research and practice interests in assisted conception, review practices concerning access to genetic origins information in adoption, and consider to what extent these may be relevant for practice in donor‐assisted conception. The paper concludes with policy and practice recommendations that take account of the views of donor offspring and their desire for increased information about…
Adoption Reform
While many aspects of current government policy on adoption are welcome, there is concern that some key issues in the adoption process are not adequately addressed in the Adoption and Children Bill, 2001, and that the use of quantitative targets will not necessarily support the good practice identified. In this article Margaret Bell, Kate Wilson and Marilyn Crawshaw consider, in particular, two areas of difficulty in the selection and preparation…
Policy formation in gamete donation and egg sharing in the UK-a critical appraisal
Sexuality and Fertility Issues in Ill Health and Disability
Promoting change through research and evidence-informed practice
This article reports on a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between a local authority and a university, the aim of which is to encourage a culture of evidence-informed practice and continual improvement across the local authority’s Family Services Directorate as part of its performance management framework and to ensure that the Research Governance Framework for Health and Social Care (DH, 2001) is fully implemented. The article describes th…
The changing profile of surrogacy in the UK – Implications for national and international policy and practice
Since 2007, the numbers of UK Parental Orders granted following surrogacy have markedly increased. More recently, eligibility criteria have been extended to unmarried heterosexual couples and same-sex couples rather than only married couples. Numbers seeking fertility treatments, including through surrogates, outside their country of residence have also increased. This paper presents the limited data currently available – from UK General Register…
Working at the Margins
Unlike many contemporary social work tasks, the work of Parental Order Reporters (PORs) in surrogacy cases in England is infrequent and unresearched. This study offers insights into how experienced social workers approach work in little-regulated but ethically complex contexts outside the mainstream. Sixteen PORs took part in telephone interviews about their experiences in providing court reports on over 135 applications. There was little evidenc…
The 'New Family' as an Emerging Norm
Biomedicine, bioethics and the law dominate policy and practice in controversial methods of creating families through assisted reproductive technologies including cross-border reproductive care and surrogacy. This commentary discusses the ascendancy of 'the right-to-parent' lobby in global free markets where individualism, neo-liberal and neo-feminist perspectives, consumerism and porous state borders thrive and legislative frameworks only regula…
Clinical encounters and culturally competent practice
This qualitative paper compares how practitioners respond to adults from two ethnic groupings (defined for analytical purposes as South Asian and White), whose fertility is threatened by cancer.Our findings suggest practitioners, in their struggle to offer culturally sensitive care, negotiate various competing ideas, reflecting wider cultural assumptions underpinning notions of ethnicity, gender, fertility and responsible parenthood within the co…
Emerging models for facilitating contact between people genetically related through donor conception
Voluntary DNA-based information exchange and contact services following donor conception
Medical science has enabled the creation of families through the use of donor conception but some lifelong policy and practice implications are only recently being recognized. Research and practice have shown that donor conception can, for some, carry substantial long-term consequences. In this paper we present findings from a questionnaire-based study that sought to shed light on donor-conceived adults’ and gamete donors’ views on service and su…
Can the UK’s birth registration system better serve the interests of those born following collaborative assisted reproduction
Searching for ‘relations’ using a DNA linking register by adults conceived following sperm donation
Revisiting the use of ‘counselling’ as a means of preparing prospective parents to meet the emerging psychosocial needs of families that have used gamete donation
Third party reproduction is an increasingly important part of family building but also challenges societal understanding of family and ‘kin’ relationships as being primarily hetero-normative and based on genetic connection. At the same time, understanding of the longer-term psycho-social implications of gamete donation is changing as knowledge grows. Research, professional and personal experiences demonstrate that a range of meanings can be trigg…
Secrets and disclosure in donor conception
This article considers the disclosure, sharing and exchange of information on being donor conceived within families, drawing on data from a study undertaken with donor-conceived adults registered withUKDonor Link (a voluntaryDNA-linking register). This paper considers the narratives of how respondents found out they were donor-conceived and what events triggered disclosure of this information. This paper then goes on to examine the role secrecy p…
Using a Volunteer Friends Support Scheme in a Temporary Relocation Programme
This article describes a voluntary Friends Scheme that sits alongside a temporary relocation scheme for Human Rights Defenders at the University of York, UK. Members of the Scheme, including the scheme’s co-ordinators, are all volunteers drawn from the local community with a remit to befriend the Defenders, help orient them to the city and UK lifestyles and offer the opportunity to experience day-to-day life outside of the university. With the er…
Political science (13 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public relations (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Medicine (7 works)