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Sociology Research

 

Janna Bryson is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust. Her research looks at the moral economy of medical assistance in dying (MAID) and the role of medicalisation in the contemporary politics of death and dying.

Janna holds an MA in Political Economy from Carleton University (2021) and a BA(Hons) in Political Science from McGill University (2017). Before coming to Cambridge, she worked as a labour relations researcher for the Canadian Association of University Teachers and as a policy researcher for the Government of Canada and the Canadian Labour Congress.

Research Interests

Medical sociology, political sociology, critical political economy, assisted dying, end-of-life care, sociology of bioethics, professions, public health

Research Projects

Medicalisation and the Moral Economy of Assisted Dying in Canada

Teaching

Supervisor, University of Cambridge Department of Sociology:
- Health, Medicine, and Society (SOC13)
- Global Capitalism (SOC9)
- Gender (SOC10)

Seminar Leader, University of Cambridge Faculty of Biology:
- Social and Ethical Context of Health and Illness (SECHI)

Teaching Assistant, Carleton University (2018-2020):
- Introduction to Criminology, 2018-19
- Criminological Theories, 2019-20

Publications

Bryson, Janna. Refusing and Redressing Gestational Labor: A Social Reproduction Account of Abortion. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 30, no. 3 (Fall 2023): 773–794, https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac028. Editor’s choice.

PhD Supervisor

Dr. Shana Cohen

Awards

SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, 2022-2026
Cambridge Political Economy Society Research Scholarship, 2022-2025
Maria Neil Scholarship, Carleton University Institute of Political Economy, 2020

Job Title:
Medicalisation and the Moral Economy of Assisted Dying in Canada, Supervisor: Dr Shana Cohen
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