{"id":183,"date":"2025-07-17T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T14:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/?page_id=183"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:07:14","slug":"dr-aimee-middlemiss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/dr-aimee-middlemiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Aimee Middlemiss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2025\/07\/pic-of-me-with-glasses-sepia-741x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-185 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2025\/07\/pic-of-me-with-glasses-sepia-741x1024.jpg 741w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2025\/07\/pic-of-me-with-glasses-sepia-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2025\/07\/pic-of-me-with-glasses-sepia-768x1062.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2025\/07\/pic-of-me-with-glasses-sepia.jpg 834w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Aimee is a social scientist with personal experience of reproductive loss as well as raising living children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her previous work at the University of Exeter includes research on second trimester pregnancy loss including miscarriage and termination for foetal anomaly, on women&#8217;s home use of foetal Dopplers in pregnancy, and a collaboration about <a href=\"https:\/\/business-school.open.ac.uk\/research\/research-projects\/early-pregnancy-endings-and-workplace\">early pregnancy endings and the workplace<\/a> with the Open University, University of Essex, UCL and Aston University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aimee has also worked on research projects about the attempted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plymouth.ac.uk\/research\/simca\">implementation of Midwifery Continuity of Carer<\/a> in the NHS, and about the human rights of the dead.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Research Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Invisible Labours: The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England<\/em> (2024) &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/title\/MiddlemissInvisible\">free e-book available here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>with <\/em>Professor Ilaria Boncori, Professor Joanna Brewis, Professor Julie Davies and Dr Victoria Louise Newton: <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/gwao.13055\">Employment leave for early pregnancy endings: A biopolitical reproductive governance analysis in England and Wales<\/a> (2024), <em>Gender Work and Organisation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>with<\/em> Professor Susie Kilshaw: <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/00302228231182273\">Further Hierarchies of Loss: Tracking Relationality in Pregnancy Loss Experiences<\/a> (2023), <em>Omega Journal of Death and Dying <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full\/10.1111\/1467-9566.13404\">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<\/a> (2022), Sociology of Health and Illness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/13576275.2020.1787365\">Pregnancy remains, infant remains, or the corpse of a child? The incoherent governance of the dead foetal body in England<\/a> (2021),  <em>Mortality<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018It felt like the longest time of my life\u2019: Using foetal Dopplers at home to manage anxiety about miscarriage (2020) In: <em>Navigating miscarriage: Social, medical and conceptual perspectives<\/em>, edited by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aimee is a social scientist with personal experience of reproductive loss as well as raising living children. 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