Cambridge Reproduction Forum: Michaelmas Term

Reproductive failure is often understood as loss, absence or an unsuccessful outcome. Yet in some contexts, failure is also associated with persistence, adaptation and the need to "try again".

From miscarriage and infertility to failed pollination, population decline and species survival, reproductive failure takes many forms and meanings. What counts as failure, and who gets to define it?

By bringing together biological, social, historical, legal, demographic and environmental perspectives, this Forum explores how reframing reproductive failure might change the questions we ask, the responses we develop, and the reproductive realities we seek to understand.