Dr Vasanti Jadva is a Reader in Psychology at City, University of London. She holds honorary positions at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Women’s Health, UCL. Her research examines the psychological well-being of parents and children in families created by IVF, egg donation, sperm donation and surrogacy.
She has also studied the experiences of surrogates and gamete donors in the UK and abroad. Dr Jadva is working on several research projects including a study of the experiences of parents who have used preimplantation genetic diagnosis, a longitudinal study of families created using surrogacy, egg donation and sperm donation and a follow-up of surrogates twenty years on.