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.