Maggie Kirkman

Dr Maggie Kirkman is a psychologist and a Senior Research Fellow in Global and Women’s Health at Monash University. Before gaining a PhD at age fifty, she taught kindergarten children, children with hearing impairments and childre with profound disabilities. She has worked at La Trobe and Melbourne universities, and her research includes women’s experiences of infertility, abortion, donor-assisted conception, breast cancer and ageing well. Maggie is the author of My Sister’s Child (with Linda Kirkman, Penguin) and the editor of Sperm Wars (with Heather Grace Jones, ABC Books). She appears regularly in the Australian media, including on ABC Radio and in The Conversation. In 2019, Maggie was recognised as an inaugural Champion for Women by Women’s Health Victoria.