She has conducted fieldwork on IVF, cloning, embryology and stem cell research.
In 2001 she was appointed to a Personal Chair in the Anthropology of Science, the first of its kind in the UK, and a field she has helped to create.
She became Professor of Social Studies of Biomedicine in the Department of Sociology at the London School of Economics in 2004.
[1][2] Franklin is a graduate of Smith College (1982) from which she received a Distinguished Alumnae Award in 2011.
She has written and edited numerous books on reproductive and genetic technologies, as well as more than 150 articles, chapters, and reports.