Terra Manca

Assistant Professor

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E-mail: tmanca@athabascau.ca

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Terra Manca

Terra Manca

Assistant Professor

Contact information

Email: tmanca@athabascau.ca

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Dr. Terra Manca is a sociologist who applies qualitative methodologies and contributes to mixed methods studies about vaccine regulation, social governance, and social inequities related to health policy. Her research about vaccination in pregnancy focuses on evidentiary gaps from pharmaceutical regulation and social governance around health risk decision-making. As part of large interdisciplinary research teams, she researches intersecting inequities in personal responsibility, access, and acceptance of recommended vaccines. She also leads sociological research into how pandemic health policies created additional caregiving and parenting responsibilities that were unevenly distributed across genders and intersecting social locations. Dr. Manca enjoys working with students from diverse professional backgrounds and collaborating on interdisciplinary teams with researchers from various career stages.

Dr. Manca is interested in supervising graduate students with an interest in vaccination, health decision-making, gender and health, parenting and caregiving, risk theory, intersectionality, social and health equity, and/or qualitative research methods.

Dr. Manca lives with her family on land known as Amiskwaciy-Wâskahikan (Beaver Hills House), also called Edmonton, Alberta.

If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Manca’s research or teaching interests, please contact her at tmanca@athabascau.ca.

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Research interests

  • Gender and health
  • Intersectionality
  • Inequities in healthcare
  • Risk and uncertainty
  • Caregiving and parenting
  • Qualitative methodologies
  • Vaccine regulation
  • Social governance
  • Health policy

Educational credentials

  • Postdoctoral fellowship (2019-2022). Understandings of Vaccination in Pregnancy. Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, NS.
  • Postdoctoral fellowship (2017-2018). Developing Vaccine Product Monograph Language. Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, NS.
  • Doctor of Philosophy (2017). Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  • Master of Arts (2009). Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
  • Bachelor of Arts with Honours (2007). Sociology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB

Professional affiliations

  • Adjunct of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University, NS