Books

Friese, Carrie. In Press. (2025) A Mouse in a Cage: Rethinking Humanitarianism and the Rights of Lab Animals. New York University Press

Clarke, Adele, Carrie Friese and Rachel Washburn (2018). Situational Analysis: grounded theory after the interpretive turn, 2nd Edition. Thousand Oaks: CA: Sage.

Clarke, Adele, Carrie Friese and Rachel Washburn (Eds.). (2015). Situational Analysis in Practice: mapping research with grounded theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.

Friese, Carrie (2013). Cloning Wild Life: zoos, captivity and the future of endangered animals. New York: New York University Press.https://nyupress.org/9781479836383/

Journal Articles

Friese, Carrie. (2024) “The Shadow Bodies of Mice: Invisible Work in Translational Medicine.” Science, Technology, & Human Values.

Holmes, Tarquin and Carrie Friese. (2023) “Figuring the ‘cynical scientist’ in British animal science: the politics of invisibility.” BioSocieties 18: 780–800.

Friese, Carrie. (2023) “Situational Analysis and Digital Methods.” FQS. Forum: Qualitative Social Research Sozialforschung.

Nuyts, Nathalie and Carrie Friese. (2023) “Communicative patterns and social networks in cultures of care: Discussing the morality of laboratory animals. Social and Cultural Geography 24(1): 11-30.

Holmes, Tarquin and Carrie Friese. (2020) “The Sleep of Reason? The Contested Role of Anaesthetics at the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection.” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 42:50. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00344-9

Redford, Kent, Barbara Durrant, Carrie Friese, Hank Greely, Ronald Sandler, Joseph Saragusty, and Oliver Ryder. (2020) "Exploring the limits of saving a subspecies: The ethics and social dynamics of restoring northern white rhinos (Ceratotherium simum cottoni).” Conservation Science and Practice 2(8): e241.

Friese, Carrie, Nathalie Nuyts and Juan Pablo Pardo Guerra. (2019) “Cultures of Care? Animals and Science in Britain.” British Journal of Sociology 70(5): 2042-2069.

Friese, Carrie (2019). "Intimate entanglements in the animal house: Caring for and about mice." The Sociological Review.

Friese, Carrie and Latimer, Joanna (2019). "Entanglements in Health and Well‐being: working with model organisms in biomedicine and bioscience." Medical Anthropology Quarterly.

Friese, Carrie and Nuyts, Nathalie (2017). "From the Principles to the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act. A commentary on how and why the 3Rs became central to laboratory animal governance in the UK". Science, Technology and Human Values.

Friese, Carrie and Nuyts, Nathalie (2017) "Posthumanist Critique and Human Health: how nonhumans (could) figure in public health research." Critical Public Health, 27 (3). pp. 303-313.

Friese, Carrie and multiple authors (2016). “Developing a Collaborative Agenda for Humanities and Social Scientific Research on Laboratory Animal Science and Welfare.” PLOS One.

Friese, Carrie and Claire Marris (2014). “Making De-Extinction Mundane?” PLoS Biology 12(3): e1001825.

Friese, Carrie (2013). “Realizing Potential in Translational Medicine: The Uncanny Emergence of Care as Science.” Current Anthropology 54(7): S129-S138.

Friese, Carrie and Adele E. Clarke. (2012). “Transposing Bodies of Knowledge and Technique: Animal Models at Work in the Reproductive Sciences.” Social Studies of Science 42(1): 31-52.

Friese, Carrie. (2010). "Classification conundrums: Categorizing chimeras and enacting species preservation." Theory and Society 39(2): 145-172.

Friese, Carrie. (2009). "Models of cloning, models for the zoo: Rethinking the sociological significance of cloned animals." BioSocieties 4(4): 367-39.

Friese, Carrie, Gay Becker, and Robert D. Nachtigall. (2008). "Older Motherhood and the Changing Life Course in the Era of Assisted Reproductive Technologies." Journal of Aging Studies 22(1): 65-73.

Friese, Carrie, Gay Becker, and Robert D. Nachtigall. (2006) "Rethinking the biological clock: eleventh hour moms, miracle moms, and meanings of age-related infertility." Social Science & Medicine 63(6): 1550-1560.

Nachtigall, Robert, Gay Becker, Diane Tober, Carrie Friese, and Anneliese Butler. (2005) "Parents' Conceptualization of Their Frozen Embryos Complicates the Disposition Decision." Fertility & Sterility 84(2): 431-4.

Book Chapters

Friese, Carrie. (2024) “Afterword” In Davies, Gail, Beth Greenhough, Pru Hobson West, Rob Kirk, Emma Roe (Eds.) Researching Animal Research. Manchester University Press.

Vanessa Ashall, Joanna Latimer, Carrie Friese. (2024) “Posthuman professionalism: Interspecies entanglements and clinical end of life care.” Ageing Across Species. Routledge.

Clarke, Adele E., Friese, Carrie and Washburn, Rachel (2023) “Critical Situational Analysis after the Interpretive Turn” In Norman K. Denzin, Yvonna Lincoln, Gaile Cannella & Michael Giardina (Eds.) The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, 6th Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Friese, Carrie, Tamara Schwertel, Olaf Tietje. (2023) “On Creative Flexibility and its Burden: An Interview with Carrie Friese on Doing Situational Analysis” In: , et al. Die Situationsanalyse als Forschungsprogramm. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.

Friese, Carrie. (2022) “Reflections on using SA in a large, mixed-methods project” in Adele Clarke, Adele, Rachel Washburn and Carrie Friese (Eds) Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Relationalities Across Disciplines. London: Routledge.

Friese, Carrie, Adele Clarke, and Rachel Washburn (2021) “Von der constructivist grounded theory zur situationsanalyse” in Barbara Prainsack and Mirjam Pot (Eds.) Qualitative und interpretative Methoden in der Politikwissenscaft. Facultas Verlags.

Friese, Carrie, Adele Clarke and Rachel Washburn. (2021). “Situational Analysis as critical pragmatist interactionism.” Dirk Vom Lehn, Natalia Ruiz-Juno and Will Gibson (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Interactionism. London: Routledge.

Washburn, Rachel, Adele Clarke and Carrie Friese. (2021) Situational Analysis: Mapping relationalities in psychology. In P. M. Camic (Ed.), Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design (pp. 167–186). American Psychological Association.

Friese, Carrie and Barbara Prainsack. (2020) “What is the role of biological science in society? Values, ethics, and knowledge” in Kampourakis and Uller (Eds.) Philosophy of Science for Biologists. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Friese, Carrie. (2019) “Intimate entanglements in the animal house: Caring for and about mice” in Latimer and Gomez (Eds.) Intimate Entanglements (The Sociological Review Monographs). London: Sage. (Printed twice, in monograph and online.)

Friese, Carrie. (2017) “Cloning in the Zoo” Minteer, Ben, Jim Collins and Jane Maienschein (Eds.) The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation. University of Chicago Press.

Friese, Carrie. (2017) “Co-producing animal models and genetic science” in Handbook of Genomics, Health & Society. Eds. Sahra Gibbon, Stephen Hilgartner, Barbara Prainsack and Janelle Lamoreaux. Routledge.

Friese, Carrie (2015). Genetic Value: the moral economies of cloning in the zoo. In: Dussauge, Isabelle and Helgesson, Claes-Fredrik and Lee, Francis, (eds.) Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 153-167.

Friese, Carrie (2016). "Feminist animal care". In: Hoogland, Renée C., (ed.) Gender: Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Macmillan Reference USA.

Friese, Carrie. (2015). “Genetics, Reproduction and Disease.” International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Science, Second Edition. Elsevier.

Friese, Carrie. (2013). “Classification conundrums: Categorizing chimeras and enacting species preservation” in Clarke, Adele and Charmaz, Kathy (Eds.) Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, SAGE Benchmarks in Social Research Methods. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. (Reprint)

Clarke, Adele, Carrie Friese, and Rachel Washburn. (2013). “Situational Analysis” in Kaldis, Byron (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Friese, Carrie, Gay Becker, and Robert D. Nachtigall. (2009). “Rethinking the
biological clock: eleventh hour moms, miracle moms, and meanings of age-related infertility” in Peter Brown and Ron Barrett (Eds.) Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, Second Edition. McGraw Hill. Pp. 198-208. (Reprint)

Clarke, Adele E. and Carrie Friese. (2007). “Grounded Theorizing Using Situational Analysis” in Antony Bryant and Kathy Charmaz (Eds.) The Handbook of Grounded Theory. London: Sage. Pp. 363-397.

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Friese has to date completed three major research projects in the broad area of social studies of reproduction. This includes research on: 1) donor egg and in vitro fertilization (IVF), gender and ideas about ageing; 2) cloning, endangered species preservation and ideas about nature and technology; and 3) laboratory animals, care work and the idea of more-than-human humanitarianism.  Her research on laboratory animals and care was support by a Wellcome Trust New Investigator Award and the resulting monograph was supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. Across this research, Friese has explored what are often considered bioethical concerns regarding the meanings and moralities of being human but by using empirical social science research methods.

From 2024-25, Friese will be a Co-Lead on an ESRC Data and Infrastructures pilot study that is Lead by Jane Elliot. This project is entitled: “British Voices: new methods for understanding the impact of social change on individual lives.” The other Co-Leads include Travis Coan (Exeter), Mike Savage (LSE) and Gayle Munro (NatCen). Ranadheer Malla (Exeter) is a specialist on the team, and a postdoctoral researcher will be hired. The long-term vision of the UK Voices team is to augment existing data infrastructure by developing a mixed-methods, repeated cross-sectional data resource that includes detailed qualitative data with a large and representative sample of the British population. Their aim here is to conduct the rigorous scoping work necessary to inform the development of such a transformative data infrastructure.

Carrie is part of the Knowledge, Culture and Technology research cluster.

Carrie Friese convenes courses on Sociology of Health and Illness, Technology, Power and Culture and teaches on Qualitative Social Research Methods. She is the Doctoral Programme Director in the Department of Sociology. She supervises PhD students working on topics related to embodiments of health and illness, the politics of care practices, more-than-human sociologies and geographies of capitalism.