Draft:Catherine Waldby

Catherine Waldby FASSA
Born	(1957-09-18) 18 September 1957 (age 67) Queensland, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation(s)	Academic, researcher, author
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Queensland Sydney University Murdoch University
Academic work
Institutions	Australian National University
Notable works	AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (1996) Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (2006) Clinical Labor: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Bioeconomy (2014)

Catherine Waldby FASSA (born 18 September 1957)^[1] is an Australian academic, researcher and author. She is the director of the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University and a visiting professor at King's College London.^[2]

Waldby's research has been focused on social studies of biomedicine and the life sciences. Her books include AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (1996), Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (2006) and Clinical Labor: Tissue donors and Research Subjects in the Bioeconomy (2014). In 2019, she wrote The Oöcyte Economy: The Changing Meanings of Human Eggs.^[3]

Waldby is the co-editor of BioSocieties, with Nikolas Rose and Hannah Landecker.^[4] In 2010, she was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia^[5] and in 2018, a member of the College of Experts, European Science Foundation. Her research has been funded by many international and national grants from various organizations including the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council and the UK Economic and Social Council.^[6]