Professor Joyce Harper
Talks and Events
Joyce is invited to speak at numerous national and international scientific conferences, public events including key note and plenary lectures and corporate talks. She talks on all aspects of fertility, reproductive health, reproductive health and fertility education, infertility, menopause, women’s health and women’s wellbeing. Bookings made via joyce.harper@ucl.ac.uk.
TALKS AND EVENTS 2026
Professor Joyce Harper
Talks so far for 2026 – Book launch events below
Thursday 29 Jan: The Festival of Genomics & Biodata, ExCeL. PANEL: Advancing Women’s Health Through Advanced Omics Technologies and Effective Collaboration
Thursday 29Jan: Femmé Frequencies: Understanding menopause
Wednesday 4 Feb: Almond Blossoms Fertility and Wellbeing Centre, Dubai: Menopause and women’s health
Friday 6 Feb: The First Qatar International Reproductive Medicine Conference, Qatar: Is women’s healthtech empowering or exploitative? What have we learnt from the history of PGT?
Monday 16 Feb: 7.00–8.00pm Harley Street at Home: Back to Basics
Thursday 26 Feb: Venture Café, London 6pm-9pm. Panel discussion: Research and innovation in the women’s health space
Friday 27 Feb: Henley-on-Thames: Your Joyful Years: Reframing Perimenopause & Menopause
Wednesday 4 March: ISGE Congress, Rome, Gedeon Richter session: Modern menopause management, from latest evidence on transdermal hormonal treatment to meaningful conversations in women’s health: navigating menopause; empowering women in life and work
Tuesday 10 March: Adora lunchtime recognising signs of menopause and how they affect you at work
Tuesday 10 March: Women’s health horizons, Fishmongers Hall, London, 4-5pm, Panel: Leading Change: How the UK’s World-Class Universities Are Shaping the Future of Women’s Health
Weds 11 March: 12.30 University of Manchester IWD key note lecture: Women’s health; past, present and future
Thursday 12 March: 5.30: Health lives for healthy women; 4 talks and panel discussion
Saturday 14 March: The Big Swim Panel Talk. Meet the Authors. Brighton
Thursday 19 March: Back to Basics: Re-Centering Women’s Health in the Age of Big Tech, UCL
Thursday 19 March: Frances Crick Institute, 5-8.30pm Women, for Women: from lab to launch in Women’s health
Friday 27 March: Edinburgh University: Reproductive Biology: Women’s Health
Tuesday 21 April: Munk Debates, Massachusetts, USA
Saturday 25 April: 47th Dexeus International Congress, Reproductive Medicine Meets the World, Barcelona, Diet and Lifestyle can everyday choices shape fertility outcomes?
Weds 29 April: Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (UniSR) in Milan, Italy, Current Socio-Cultural Challenges in Medical, Workplace, and Public Health Scenarios, Italy, European International Perspectives on Fertility vs. Infertility
Tuesday 12 May: Adora Lunchtime, healthy lives for healthy women- webinar
Thursday 14 May: Adora Healthy lives for healthy women coaching session
Thursday 14 May: Birmingham, Ferring ‘Elevate’ Symposium Therisks. Debate: Home fertility testing.
22-24 May: Big Retreat Festival, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
Saturday 20 June: Wildwood festival, why sex and orgasms are good for our health, Cambridge, UK
Tuesday 7 July: ESHRE, London, Tackling fertility decline in a changing society – Fertility awareness: the new family planning. IBSA sponsored talk
11-13 September: Big Retreat Festival
Tuesday 22 Sept: Adora Sex is good for our health
Saturday 3 October: Pause Live, London
Saturday 10 October: SWIMHER conference, Plymouth
Tuesday 27 October: Adora Men and menopause
Your Joyful Years book launch conversations – provisional list
March 20: Launch party at University College London
March Edinburgh
March Newcastle
April Terling, Essex
April Lord Butler Leisure Centre, Saffron Walden
April Boston
April New York
April Spain
April Madrid
May Bournemouth
May Birmingham
May 23: Big Retreat Festival Wales
May 29: France
June Tiverton
June Manchester
June York
June 20: Wildwood festival
July Brighton
July Hastings
Sept 12: Big Retreat Festival Cambridge
February 2022
Upper Egypt Assisted Reproduction Conference
10 October 2021
Fertility Show Africa – Fertility Education
8 October 2021
Cryos Symposium, Cyprus – Genetic matching of donors and genetic panels
30 September 2021
French Federation for the Study of Reproduction, France – Fertility Education
24 September 2021
Canadian Fertility and Andrology Society, Canada
Adjuncts in the IVF Laboratory: Where is the Evidence for ‘Add-On’ Interventions?
11 September 2021
2nd International Fertility Nurses and Midwives Congress, Portugal
Gamete donation; anonymity and online sperm donation
8 March 2021
International Women’s Day
Your Fertile Years, Race and Reproduction, Women Open Water Swimming
2 March 2021
RBM Online
IVF add-ons
13 February 2021
National Obstetrics & Gynaecology Conference – Navigating the Future, virtual
Your Fertile Years
31 January 2021
Fetal Medicine Foundation seminar series, virtual
Preimplantation genetic testing
28 January 2021
ESHRE Campus Workshop:
Counselling and the provision of information in third party reproduction: best practice in the face of new challenges
Genetic testing: the end of donor anonymity?
12 January 2021
New York Obstetrical Society with Jerry Schatten
Covid and the future of ART
1-2 December 2020
Giant Health, Festival of Health Tech Innovation | Virtual Event
The use of tech in fertility and infertility
November 2020
Fertility Hub, GP Fertility Study Day
Raising awareness for female patients on their fertility
