Since 2013, Dr Pamela White has been teaching Medical Law and Data Protection Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent.
Previously she worked in Canada as Chief Privacy Officer Statistics Canada and held senior Director positions in departmental divisions such as Demography and Health Data Analysis. She held a senior position at Canada’s Assisted Human Reproduction Agency prior to its disbanding in 2012.
Between 1999 and 2010, she lectured at University of Carleton, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies where she taught Cultural Geography and Qualitative Research Methods.
She holds a PhD in Human Geography, McGill University and from Kent Law School, University of Kent a LLM (Distinction). She is working towards a PhD by publication, Kent Law School.
Dr White’s research interests centre on Canada’s misplaced reproductive law and laissez-faire regulation of fertility treatments. She uses assisted Canadian and USA reproductive registry information and birth registration data to examine compliance to professional fertility treatment guidelines and to profile surrogacy practices and outcomes. She has interviewed women and men about the decisions they have made regarding the use, donation, storage, and disposition of gamete and embryos. The focus of her work is to shed light on the lives lived in law, notably liminal spaces created by law and regulation.
Research Grants
SSHRC Social Science and Humanities Research Council Grant (2019-2023): 'Surrogate's Voices: Exploring Surrogates' Experiences and Insights (2019-2023). Dr. White is co-lead on Study 1: Administrative Data Review -- Examining national data on demographics of surrogates and intended parents and is participating in Study 2: National survey of surrogates and Study 3: Interviews with surrogates and intended parents. Papers, book chapters and conference presentations will result from this work commencing 2021 onwards. Professor V. Gruben (Law School, Ottawa University) Principal Investigator.
KLS Internal Funding (2019-2020): ‘Driving to Dignitas: Don’t Ask—Don’t Tell’. Examination of how UK residents travel to Dignitas.
Dr White’s main teaching responsibility lies in the fields of Medical Law and Ethics at and Privacy, Data Protection and Cyber security Law at the undergraduate level. At the postgraduate level her focus is Cyber Law, Privacy and Data Protection and in medical law, modules concerning: Death and Dying, Consent to Medical Treatment, and Reproduction and Beginning of Life.
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