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Marianne Sofronas
Assistant professor

2024: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Ottawa
2023: PhD Nursing, McGill University
2010: MSc(A) Nursing, McGill University
2000: MA, Anthropology, New School for Social Research
1997: BA (Hons) Anthropology, McGill University

Room
LEE 419D


Biography

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.

Research interests

  • Palliative care for populations experiencing vulnerability, particularly people living with disability
  • Critical care and neuroscience nursing
  • Clinical and organizational ethics
  • Personhood in illness
  • Nursing work environments
  • Qualitative methodologies

Research

Her research program primarily focuses on two critical areas:

  • Palliative care for populations experiencing vulnerability
  • How nurses enact morally significant practice in challenging clinical, organizational and political spaces.

Marianne 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.

Publications

See Marianne Sofronas’s publications on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Selected publications