13 Facts About Catherine Waldby

Catherine Waldby was born on 18 September 1957 and is an Australian academic, researcher and author.

Catherine Waldby is the Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and a visiting professor at King's College London.

Catherine Waldby has written over 50 research articles and seven monographs.

Catherine Waldby is the co-editor of BioSocieties, with Nikolas Rose and Hannah Landecker.

Catherine Waldby's research has been funded by many international and national grants from various organizations including the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Council.

Catherine Waldby received her secondary education at St Rita's College, Clayfield.

In 2001, Catherine Waldby moved to the United Kingdom and joined Brunel University as the Director of Center for Research in Innovation, Culture and Technology.

Catherine Waldby moved back to Australia in 2004 becoming a senior lecturer at University of New South Wales, while teaching as a visiting professor at Brunel University.

Catherine Waldby was appointed as the Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University in 2015.

Catherine Waldby has made a significant contribution to the discipline of Sociology, in particular to the sociology of biomedicine.

Catherine Waldby demonstrated that, under these historical conditions, the informed consent process, the primary regulatory technology governing the transfer of tissue from donor to recipient, took on some functions of a property contract, by securing the active consent of the donor to relinquish any claims to the future commercial value of their surrendered tissue.

The book received positive reviews and became Catherine Waldby's most cited work.

Catherine Waldby developed the second framework in her book, The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs in Fertility, Assisted Reproduction and Stem Cell Research.