Professor Dr. Marianne Sofronas

Biography

Marianne Sofronas is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s School of Nursing and serves as the director of research for the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association. With a background as a nurse, ethicist, and anthropologist, her expertise bridges clinical practice with critical academic inquiry. Professor Sofronas is currently accepting new students for thesis supervision. Her research interests focus on palliative care populations experiencing vulnerability, particularly people living with disabilities, and include critical care, neuroscience nursing, clinical organizational ethics, and personhood in illness. Her doctoral work involved ethnography in neuropalliative care, examining personhood through an ethical lens. Her post-doctoral research expanded on nursing work environments, grounded in critical theory, poststructuralism, interpretive approaches, feminist relational ethics, and emancipatory decolonizing frameworks. She draws from a decade of clinical practice in critical care nursing and clinical ethics, striving to enact morally significant practices that challenge clinical, organizational, and political spaces.

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