Marianne Sofronas is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Nursing and the director of research for the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association. A nurse, ethicist, and anthropologist, her expertise bridges clinical practice and critical academic inquiry.
Professor Sofronas is accepting new students for thesis supervision.
Marianne Sofronas' research program primarily focuses on two critical areas:
Professor Sofronas’s doctoral work involved an ethnography of neuropalliative care, examined through the lens of personhood. Her post-doctoral research expanded into nursing work environments. Both her research and teaching are grounded in critical theory, poststructuralism, interpretive approaches, feminist and relational ethics, and emancipatory and decolonizing frameworks. She draws on over a decade of clinical practice in critical care nursing and clinical ethics.
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