Vasanti Jadva

Dr Jadva joined City, University of London, in 2023 as Reader in Psychology. She holds honorary positions at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge and the Institute for Women’s Health, UCL. She leads the Family, Infancy and Childhood (FINCH) Research Lab which focuses on family diversity and child development. 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. Dr Jadva is working on several research projects including a study of the experiences of parents who have used preimplantation genetic testing, a longitudinal study of families created using surrogacy, egg donation and sperm donation and a follow-up of surrogates twenty years on.