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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 relationship between the political economy of healthcare and attitudes toward medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and quality of life.

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

Critical political economy, economic sociology, medical sociology, healthcare, public policy, assisted dying, disability, social reproduction, end-of-life care, work and labour

Research Projects

Assisted Dying Eligibility Criteria and the Political Economy of Canadian Healthcare

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, Carleton University:
-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:
A Moral or Political Economy? Medical Assistance in Dying and the Value of Human Life, Supervisor: Dr Shana Cohen
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