Portrait of Susan Braedley

Susan Braedley

Associate Professor

School of Social Work (SSW)
Carleton University

SSW Profile
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Phone: 613-520-2600 x 3662
Email: susan_braedley@carleton.ca
Office: 618 Dunton Tower

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Areas of Research Interest

Current Research Projects

Teaching

Selected Publications

Community Engagement

Presentations

Invited Talks

Areas of Research Interest

  • Political economy of health care and social services work
  • Race, class, and gender in everyday caring work
  • Social reproduction theory and feminist political economy
  • Gender and social policy
  • Disability and ageing
  • Radical social work practice and theory including feminist, anti-racist, post modern and structural
    social work

Current Research Projects

Teaching

  • The Political Economy of Social Welfare (SOWK 2100)
  • Doctoral Research Seminar (SOWK 6200)
  • Doctoral Seminar in Political Economy (PECO 6000)
  • Social Work Foundations (SOWK 5000)

Selected Publications

Edited Books and Edited Themed Issues

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Regulating Care
Susan Braedley and Rosemary Warrskett (editors)
Special Themed Issue
Studies in Political Economy, Vol. 95 (Spring)
2015

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Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research
Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (editors)
Canadian Scholars Press
2013

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Feminist Dialogues: politiques publiques et l’action collective au Quebec et Ontario
Susan Braedley, Jacinthe Michaud, and Leah Vosko (editors)
Special Double Issue
Canadian Women’s Studies/cahiers des femmes, Vol. 29 Issue 3 (Spring/Summer)
2012

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Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
Susan Braedley and Meg Luxton (editors)
McGill Queens University Press
2010

Chapters in Edited Books

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Equity Shifts in Firefighting: Challenging Gendered and Racialized Work
Susan Braedley
Working Women in Canada: An Intersectional Approach
Leslie Nichols (editor)
Women’s Press
2019

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Reinventing the nursing home: metaphors that design care
Susan Braedley
Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments
Stephen Katz
Policy Press
2018

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Ethics as Teamwork
Susan Braedley
Creative Teamwork: Developing Rapid Sit-Switching Ethnography
Pat Armstrong and Ruth Lowndes (editors)
Oxford University Press
2018

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A Gender Politics of Long-term Residential Care: Towards an Analysis
Susan Braedley
Troubling Care: Critical Perspectives on Research
Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (editors)
Canadian Scholars Press
2013

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Accidental Care: Masculinity and Care at Work
Susan Braedley
Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
Susan Braedley and Meg Luxton (editors)
McGill Queens University Press
2010

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Competing Philosophies: Neoliberalism and the Challenges of Everyday Life
Susan Braedley and Meg Luxton
Neoliberalism and Everyday Life
Susan Braedley and Meg Luxton (editors)
McGill Queens University Press
2010

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Someone to Watch over You: Gender, Class and Social Reproduction
Susan Braedley
Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-liberalism
Kate Bezanson and Meg Luxton (editors)
McGill-Queens University Press
2006

Non-Refereed Books

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Physical Environments for Long-Term Residential Care: Ideas Worth Sharing
Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (editors)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2016

Chapters in Non-Refereed Books

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Tensions of Gender, Race and Culture
Susan Braedley
Negotiating Tensions in Long-Term Residential Care: Ideas Worth Sharing
Pat Armstrong and Ruth Lowndes
2018

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Let’s Talk about Sex…in Long- Term Care
Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley
Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care
Pat Armstrong and Tamara Daly (editors)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2017

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Small Bites and Food in Sight
Susan Braedley and Pat Armstrong
Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care
Pat Armstrong and Tamara Daly (editors)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2017

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Opportunities to Problem- Solve: Conditions for Dementia Care
Susan Braedley and Marta Szebehely
Exercising Choice in Long-Term Residential Care
Pat Armstrong and Tamara Daly (editors)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2017

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Cleaning Matters
Susan Braedley
Physical Environments for Long-Term Residential Care: Ideas Worth Sharing
Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (editors)
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2016

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Lessons from Sweden
Susan Braedley and Albert Banerjee
Promising Practices in Long-term Care: Ideas Worth Sharing
Donna Baines and Pat Armstrong
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
2015

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals

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Beyond the Technical: Quality in Emergency Medical Response
Susan Braedley
Firewatch: The official publication of the Toronto
Professional Firefighters’ Association, Volume 3 Issue 4
2007

Technical Reports

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Crumbling Away: Saskatchewan Long-Term Residential Care Policy and its Consequences
Susan Braedley, Tara McWhinney, Asia Barclay, and Kiersten Jensen
Completed for CUPE 5430 Healthcare Workers
2019

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Models for Transforming Long-Term Residential Care: A Review
Pat Armstrong, Albert Banerjee, Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley, Jacqueline Choiniere, Ruth Lowndes, and James Struthers
Completed for the City of Toronto
2019

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Toward Fire Services 2.0: Promising Practices from Barrie, Ontario
Susan Braedley with Prince Owusu
2016

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Promising Practices in Fire-Based Emergency Medical Response: Lessons from Winnipeg
Susan Braedley
Completed for the City of Winnipeg
2015

Articles in Refereed Journals

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Old and Dangerous: Bordering Older Migrants’ Mobilities, Rejuvenating the Post-Welfare State
Susan Braedley, Karine Côté-Boucher, Anna Przednowek,
Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society, Summer 2019
2019

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We’re told, ‘Suck it up’: Long-Term Care Workers’ Psychological Health and Safety
Susan Braedley, Anna Przednowek, Prince Owusu and Pat Armstrong
International Journal of Ageing, Vol. 43
2018

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Gender Regimes in Ontario Nursing Homes: Organization, Daily Work, and Bodies
Palle Storm, Susan Braedley, Sally Chivers, et al.
Canadian Journal on Aging / La revue canadienne du vieillissement, Vol. 36 Issue 2
2017

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Research on Fire: Lessons Learned in Knowledge Mobilization
Susan Braedley
Technology Innovation Management Review, Vol. 6 Issue 9
2016

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Regulating Care: An Introduction
Susan Braedley and Rosemary Warskett
Studies in Political Economy, Vol. 95
2015

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Pulling Men into Care: The Case of Canadian Fire Services
Susan Braedley
Competition and Change, Vol. 19 Issue 3
2015

Journal of Aging Studies

Care workers Don’t Have a Voice:” Epistemological Violence in Residential Care for Older People
Albert Banerjee, Pat Armstrong, Tamara Daly, Hugh Armstrong, Susan Braedley
Journal of Aging Studies, Vol. 33
2015

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Dreams of Home: Building (In)Equity in Long-term Residential Care
Susan Braedley and Gillian Martel
Studies in Political Economy, Vol. 95
2015

Canadian Women Studies

The Masculinization Effect: Neoliberalism, the Medical Paradigm and Ontario’s Health Care Policy
Susan Braedley
Canadian Women’s Studies/cahier des femmes, Vol. 29 Issue 3
2012

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A Ladder Up: Ontario Firefighters’ Wages in Neoliberal Times
Susan Braedley
Just Labour: The Journal of Work and Society, Autumn Issue
2009

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Maternal Health Protections in Work Environments: Lessons from Canada
Susan Braedley
Women and Environments, Vol. 80/81
2009

Community Engagement

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Member, Executive Editorial Board
Studies in Political Economy

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Member, Steering Committee
Bruyère Centre for Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-term Care
Bruyère Research Institute

Presentations (Selected)

2019

Securitizing the Grandma Threat: Bordering Aging, Gender and Care at the International Migration
Susan Braedley and Karine Côté-Boucher
Social Integration and Cohesion Conference
Malmo, Sweden

“Age-Friendly” for Whom? Bordering Older Immigrants
Susan Braedley and Karine Côté-Boucher
Transforming Care Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark

Thematic Panel Session B-2a: Age(ing in the) Friendly City: Global Guidelines
Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley, Chairs
Transforming Care Conference
Copenhagen, Denmark

Translating “Culture”: Gendered Insights on Meaning in Late Life from Immigrant Seniors
Susan Braedley
Trent Aging 2019
Trent University – Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Taking up Gender, Culture and Meaning: Moving the Needle on Age-Friendly
Tamara Daly, Susan Braedley and Sally Chivers
Trent Aging 2019
Trent University – Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Age-Friendliness for Parents and Grandparents? Bordering Old Age Immigration in Canada
Karine Côté-Boucher and Susan Braedley
Trent Aging 2019
Trent University – Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Going ‘Public’ with Sex and Sexuality in Long-Term Care
Tamara Daly and Susan Braedley
Trent Aging 2019
Trent University – Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

‘She’s Seen More Death than Anyone Can Imagine’: Insider/Outsider Dilemmas in Late Life Long- Term Care Ethnographic Research
Katie Aubrecht, Tamara Daly, Ivy Bourgeault and Susan Braedley
36th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference
Fredericton, New Brunswick

2018

Triple jeopardy: Caregiving challenges, cultural barriers, and precarious support among unpaid ethno-cultural caregivers in Ottawa
Renate Ysseldyk, Susan Braedley, Mehreen Anjum et al.
International Conference on Social Identity and Health
Lausanne, Switzerland.

Old and Dangerous: Migration, Aging and the Post-Welfare State 
Susan Braedley and Karine Coté-Boucher
Symposium on the New Politics of Immigration and the End Settler Societies
Concordia University – Montreal, Quebec

2017

Re-imagining the Nursing Home: Approaches to Care 
Susan Braedley
Global Carework Summit
Universy of Massachusetts – Lowell, Massachusetts

Ethics as Teamwork
Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario

Feminist Political Economy- Past, Present, Future 
Canadian Association for Work & Labour Studies (CAWLS) Annual Conference, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario

The Future is Getting Old: Going Public as a Possibility
Susan Braedley
FPA Visions for Canada 2042
Carleton University – Ottawa, Ontario

2016

Taking the “care” out of care work: An assessment of the interconnections between working conditions and compassion fatigue and burnout
Prince Owusu, Anna Przednowek, Susan Braedley
Canadian Sociological Association Conference
Calgary, Alberta

What do “potatoes”, “machines” and “soldiers” have to do with long term care work?
Anna Przednowek, Prince Owusu, Susan Braedley
Canadian Sociological Association Conference
Calgary, Alberta

Slow Violence and Bare Life in Canadian Cities: Social Reproduction and the Reluctant Welfare State
Susan Braedley
Socialist Studies Conference
Calgary, Alberta

Don’t Feel Anything: Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Nursing Home Care Work
Susan Braedley, Prince Owusu and Anna Przednowek,
Canadian Society of the Sociology of Health Conference
Ottawa, Ontario

Understanding care as a relationship: promising practices and new possibilities 
Liz Lloyd, Albert Banerjee, Monique Lanoix, Sally Chivers, Susan Braedley, Tone Elin Mekki
Nordic Congress of Gerontology
Tampere, Finland

“All Cared Out? Compassion Fatigue and Burnout in Gendered Public Sector Work
Susan Braedley
Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand (AIRAANZ) Annual Conference
Sydney, Australia

2015

Feminist Political Economy: Taking up Men and Masculinities with Women’s Liberation in Mind
Susan Braedley
Canadian Sociological Association Annual Conference
Ottawa, Canada

“Neither Fish nor Fowl”: Which Model for Elder Care? The Power of Metaphors in Residential Care 
Susan Braedley
North American Network on Aging Studies: Foundations and Formations Conference
Miami University – Oxford, Ohio

Beyond the comfort zone: re-imagining the nursing home as collective and
equitable 
Susan Braedley
Ageing: Between Science and Politics Conference
University of Luxembourg – Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Invited Talks (Selected)

2019

Beyond the Numbers: Promising Practices in Frailty-informed Care
Perley Rideau Veterans Centre, Quality Assurance Group
Ottawa, Ontario

2018

Learning With, Learning From Ethnocultural Seniors: Supporting Social Change through Research
Aging in Your Community: Working Together to Meet the Needs of Ethnocultural Seniors – Hosted by the Social Planning Council of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario

Making Joy Possible in Long-Term Residential Care 
Privatization and Regulation: International Comparisons of Long-Term Care Policy and Practice
Toronto, Ontario

Gender, Culture and Community for Immigrant Seniors 
Toronto Reference Library’s Ageing in the City Series: EngAGEing Ideas for Age-Friendly Communities
Toronto, Ontario

2017

Ethnocultural Seniors and Care-giving
Council on Aging Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario

Contracting Out: The Evidence on Cleaning and Dietary Services
New Brunswick Healthcare Summit
Miramichi,N.B

Physical Environments for Long-term Care Workshop
AdvantAGE Ontario Annual Meeting and Convention
Toronto, Ontario

Age-Friendly “Communities in Communities”
Age-Friendly Ottawa Coalition
Ottawa, Ontario

2016

Public, For-Profit, Non-Profit: Why does it Matter?
North Bay Long-term Care Summit
North Bay, Ontario

Presentation of Long-term Residential Care Design Findings
Ministry of Health and Long-term Care
Toronto, Ontario

2015

Take Action for Health Care: What does the Research Say?
CUPE Health Care Workers Bi-Annual Conference
Ottawa, Ontario

Improving the Health of Health Care Workers: Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
CUPE Long-term Care Workers
Ottawa, Ontario

What do we need to know about poverty, now?
Ontario Association Of Social Workers East Branch Annual Meeting
Ottawa, Ontario

Solidarity in an Intolerant Time
Intercultural Dialogue Group International Women’s Day Event
Toronto, Ontario

Privatization and the Future of Health Care
Ontario Health Coalition
Ottawa, Ontario