Hélène MALMANCHE

Hélène MALMANCHE is an anthropologist and midwife specialising in preconception care, fecundity, and endometriosis. After completing her PhD thesis entitled ‘Third -party reproduction: gender, bioethics and cross-border practices (France, Belgium)’ at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS, France) in 2020, she obtained her first postdoctoral position at LabEx SMS (Toulouse Midi University, France). She then joined INED as a research fellow in the Outside-ART project. 

She joined the SOC-MISC research team in October 2024 to conduct a qualitative study among people who had recently experienced a miscarriage in France. This study complements the quantitative work of the project, and is the first qualitative study (FISO) within the social sciences in France to focus specifically on miscarriage. The aim of the qualitative work is to better understand the experiences and healthcare trajectories of those experiencing a miscarriage, and to improve future sexual and reproductive health surveys by proposing how to better measure these pregnancy outcomes. 

Hélène Malmanche enjoys combining her expertise as an anthropologist and a healthcare professional by incorporating insights from the social sciences into her medical practice. For her, ‘joining the SOC-MISC project represents a rare opportunity to participate in a challenging and formative ERC project, to be part of a collaborative research team and to contribute to the evolution of medical practices in this field’. 
 

More information on : researcher webpage 

Email : helene.malmanche@ined.fr