{"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":"2026-08-25T13:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T12:02:26","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 has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top is-image-fill-element\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 48%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-509f0b3596a303ed01d502ee8437d626 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\">Aimee is a social scientist with personal experience of reproductive loss as well as raising living children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3815d751bd58c86ed1260cb79cb79f7b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\">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 class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b476a20cc32f164bfdad15e409112af7 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\">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><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1370\" height=\"913\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2026\/08\/AM-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"White woman with shoulder length hair and glasses\" class=\"wp-image-309 size-full\" style=\"object-position:50% 50%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2026\/08\/AM-headshot.jpg 1370w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2026\/08\/AM-headshot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2026\/08\/AM-headshot-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/cervicalstitch\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/651\/2026\/08\/AM-headshot-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1370px) 100vw, 1370px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-135ff0c11a4bece0fd1767bb952fc946\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\">Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-27de189eab7ec73f34a2bc4135940fee wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\"><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 class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6d34180484339cbc6c035a9cb94ff58e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\"><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 class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-82f835c1a97b89bd683ecc5c3b8c67a0 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\"><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 class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-319655f797bd957e70215a56c11adcaf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\"><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 class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e627db0bc96f9e5abd57ab3cc17c10ae wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\"><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 class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7d5f67378583a2dd20270ae9c36e2176 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#8a7d91\">\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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/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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