Janna Bryson (2022)
- PhD Candidate
- Medicalisation and the Moral Economy of Assisted Dying in Canada
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About
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.
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
Research
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
Publications
Journal Articles
- 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.
Teaching and supervision
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