Kent obtained her Bachelors of Science in Sociology degree from the University of Bath in 1990. She then later graduated from the University of Bristol with a PhD in sociology in 1995, and in 2007 became a professor of Sociology of Health Technology. Kent was a member of the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MRHA) Committee on Safety Devices and is now Chair of the University Research Ethics Committee at the University of the West of England.[3]
At the 2006 Stem Cell Ethics Workshop in London, Kent gave a lecture on ethics and regulations in the world of the fetus alongside Professor Naomi Pfeffer.[4]
In late 2012, along with Dr. Maria Fannin from the University of Bristol, Kent won a grant from the Wellcome Trust to fund a research project into placental tissue.[5]
Kent has received more than £224,000 from the Economic and Social Research Council. One grant was worth more than £79,000 for research into tissue and cell technologies,[6] and another was worth more than £145,000 for fetal stem cell research.[7]
Bibliography
Books
Kent, Julie (2000). Social perspectives on pregnancy and chilbirth for midwives, nurses and the caring professions. Buckingham Philadelphia: Open University Press. ISBN9780335199112.
Kent, Julie (2012). Regenerating bodies : tissue and cell therapies in the twenty-first century. London New York: Routledge. ISBN9780415688819.
Book chapters
Kent, Julie; Meulen, Rudd ter (2011), "Public trust and public bodies: the regulation of the use of human tissue for research in the United Kingdom.", in Lenk, Christian; Sándor, Judit; Gordijn, Bert (eds.), Biobanks and tissue research the public, the patient and the regulation, Dordrecht Netherlands: Springer, pp. 17–36, ISBN9789400716728
Kent, Julie; Bell, Margaret; Noakes, Sara (June 1998). "Looking after children: implications for social work education". Children & Society. 12 (3): 242–243. doi:10.1111/j.1099-0860.1998.tb00075.x.
Kent, Julie; Faulkner, Alex (2002). "Regulating human implant technologies in Europe - understanding the new era in medical device regulation". Health, Risk & Society. 4 (2): 189–209. doi:10.1080/13698570220137060. S2CID71863538.
Kent, Julie; Goodenough, Trudy; Williamson, Emma; Ashcroft, Richard (April 2003). "What did you think about that? Researching children's perceptions of participation in a longitudinal genetic epidemiological study". Children & Society. 17 (2): 113–125. doi:10.1002/CHI.739.
Kent, Julie; Sellman, Derek (January 2005). "Ethics and governance of research". Centre for Critical Theory Members Conference - What is Research?.
Kent, Julie; Goodenough, Trudy; Williamson, Emma; Ashcroft, Richard (November 2005). "Conducting research with children: the limits of confidentiality and child protection protocols". Children & Society. 19 (5): 397–409. doi:10.1002/chi.852.
Kent, Julie; Faulkner, Alex; Geesink, Ingrid; Fitzatrick, David (January 2006). "Towards governance of human tissue engineered technologies in Europe: framing the case for a new regulatory regime". Technological Forecasting and Social Change. 73 (1): 41–60. doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2005.06.006.
Kent, Julie; Fletcher, Catherine; Boden, Rebecca; Tinson, Julie (September 2007). "Performing women: the gendered dimensions of the UK new research economy". Gender, Work & Organization. 14 (5): 433–453. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0432.2007.00359.x. hdl:1893/687.
Kent, Julie; Faulkner, Alex; Geesink, Ingrid; Fitzatrick, David (2008). "Tissue-engineered technologies: scientific biomedicine, frames of risk and regulatory regime-building in Europe". Science as Culture. 17 (2): 195–222. doi:10.1080/09505430802062950. S2CID144985725.
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