Ph.D Students
Revital Groshka Harari (Gender Studies Program; co-supervised with Prof. Anat Herbst-Debby)
Knowledge production among mothers receiving informal human milk donations in Israel
Sapir Dasa Buskila (co-supervised with Dr. Shirley Ben Shlomo)
Relationships between organ donors and their recipients: A qualitative study of relationship formation in living and deceased donation to strangers
Merav Cohen Langental (co-supervised with Prof. Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari)
The transition to parenthood among widows who were pregnant when their partner was killed in war or a terror attack
Sarit Sambol Sas (co-supervised with Prof. Jenny Bronstein, Department of Information Science)
Information, identity and parenthood on the spectrum: A journey between personal and social worlds
M.Sc Students
Keren Adler
The experience of separation from non-biological children among women whose relationships ended
Eretz Nativ
Perceptions of childbearing among young Israeli women and men experiencing climate-related concerns
Saar Hadar
Masculine and sexual identity among young male anime-manga fans in Israel
Hadar Vazana
Experiences of young mothers and their partners who chose to feed their baby donor human milk from an unrelated mother, and the meanings they construct around receiving donor milk
Zohar Gal
The place of external markers in identity construction among people leaving religious life
Dana Mordechai (co-supervised with Dr. Yael Karni-Vizel)
Integration processes of adults with autism with high support needs in group-supported employment
Maya Mahatzri (co-supervised with Dr. Yael Karni-Vizel)
Burnout and occupational quality of life among people with autism
Alumni
Noam Elgad (MA, 2026)
"White Gold": Social, artistic and symbolic representations of human milk in jewelry
Paz Arbel (MA, 2026; co-supervised with Dr. Shirley Ben Shlomo)
"Modeling" trauma: Change and development in performative embodiment and visibility among women evacuated from the Gaza border communities after October 7
Tamar Rabin (MA, 2024; co-supervised with Dr. Shirley Ben Shlomo)
Perceptions and attitudes of parents who underwent fertility treatments toward public policy on IVF and the donation of surplus frozen embryos
Shir Liv (MA, 2026; co-supervised with Prof. Orit Taubman-Ben-Ari)
Perceptions of Israeli security-service candidates regarding the possibility of posthumous sperm retrieval
Roni Perlmuter-Ben Horin (MA, 2025; co-supervised with Dr. Shirley Ben Shlomo)
The lived experience of corneal transplant recipients with keratoconus across the waiting, transplantation and recovery stages
Sapir Dasa Buskila (MA, 2023)
"Musar Klayot": The experiences of wives whose husbands altruistically donated a kidney to strangers
Maram Yassin Salameh (MA, University of Haifa, 2023; co-supervised with Prof. Maya Negev)
Knowledge, attitudes and barriers among Arab women in Israel regarding human milk donation to the milk bank
Moriya Hoter Kariv (MA, 2024)
The experience of spouses of kidney donors: A psychoanalytic perspective
Collaborators
Dr. Amit Dagan
The Fragment Mending Lab – Therapeutic Archaeology
Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, Bar-Ilan University. Co-founder and co-director of the Fragment Mending Lab at the Tell Qana Archaeological Project.