Dr Aimee Middlemiss

Aimee is a social scientist with personal experience of reproductive loss as well as raising living children.

Her previous work at the University of Exeter includes research on second trimester pregnancy loss including termination for foetal anomaly, on women’s home use of foetal Dopplers in pregnancy, and a collaboration about early pregnancy endings and the workplace with the Open University, University of Essex, UCL and Aston University.

Aimee has also worked on research projects about the attempted implementation of Midwifery Continuity of Carer in the NHS, and about the human rights of the dead.

Selected Research Publications

Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England (2024) – free e-book available here.

with Professor Ilaria Boncori, Professor Joanna Brewis, Professor Julie Davies and Dr Victoria Louise Newton: Employment leave for early pregnancy endings: A biopolitical reproductive governance analysis in England and Wales (2024), Gender Work and Organisation

with Professor Susie Kilshaw: Further Hierarchies of Loss: Tracking Relationality in Pregnancy Loss Experiences (2023), Omega Journal of Death and Dying

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 (2022), Sociology of Health and Illness

Pregnancy remains, infant remains, or the corpse of a child? The incoherent governance of the dead foetal body in England (2021), Mortality

‘It felt like the longest time of my life’: Using foetal Dopplers at home to manage anxiety about miscarriage (2020) In: Navigating miscarriage: Social, medical and conceptual perspectives, edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg.