Rate My Professor Cal Volks

Cal Volks' research investigates how digital platforms shape donor reproductive practices, kinship, and identity formation in donor-assisted reproduction. She contributes to ARC-funded projects on oocyte mobilities in Southern Africa and uterus transplants with Prof. Andrea Whittaker. Key publications include 'Consequences for Australian recipients of cross border oocyte donation in South Africa: double embryo transfer and donor anonymity' (2025, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology), 'From clicks to creating kin: how Australian online egg donors craft relationships with recipients and donor-conceived children' (2025, Human Fertility), 'Life in transit: the work of hyper-mobile gamete couriers in vital mobility infrastructures' (2025, Mobilities), and 'A scoping review of the psychosocial aspects of infertility in African countries' (2024, Reproductive Health). She has received the Erasmus Mundus Scholarship (2014), Mellon grant for HERS leadership training (2002), SASH grant (2016), and La Trobe University PhD Scholarship (2019). Volks engages in policy through submissions to the Australian Law Reform Commission on surrogacy laws, peer reviews for Human Fertility, committee roles such as the Monash Roundtable on Surrogacy programme committee, and presentations at Re-worlding Reproduction (2024) and other international conferences. Her work delivers education and policy interventions for university students and fertility stakeholders in Australia, South Africa, Vietnam, and Japan.