{"id":99,"date":"2020-07-24T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=99"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:29:34","slug":"susan-braedley","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/people\/susan-braedley\/","title":{"rendered":"Susan Braedley"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Areas of Research Interest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Long-term care home policy and practice, long-term care work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Equity and aging<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Race, class, immigration, and gender in everyday caring work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social work as work in a changing world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Social Reproduction and Feminist Political Economy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Theory for social work including Feminist, Anti-Racist, Post Modern and Structural Social Work<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ethnography, community-based research, research mobilization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current Research Projects (2023-25)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.I., <strong>Bordering Aging, Bordering Care: Comparing Welfare State Approaches. <\/strong>SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Associate Director, Imagining <strong>Age\u2013Friendly \u201cCommunities\u201d within Communities: International Promising Practices<\/strong>. SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada) Partnership Grant Director: Tamara Daly, York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>P.I,<strong> Advancing Access to Mental Health Care in Long-Term Care Homes: Utilizing Social Work and Social Service Work <\/strong>w\/ Bruyere Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-Investigator,<strong> Learning from the pandemic? Planning for a long-term care labour force<\/strong>. SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada),P.I. Pat Armstrong, York University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McWhinney, Tara and <strong>Braedley, Susan<\/strong>. Struggling for public services: lessons from the Saskatchewan long-term care privatization playbook. <em>Studies in Political Economy<\/em>, Summer, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong, Pat. and <strong>Braedley, Susan<\/strong> (Eds) <em>Care Homes in a Turbulent Era: Do They Have a Future?<\/em> under contract with Edward Elgar Press, August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>(2023) Body-work-that-isn\u2019t: Supporting Nursing Home Residents\u2019 Autonomy in Self-Care and Sexual Expression. In Pat Armstrong (ed) <em>Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries<\/em>, Policy Press: pp.33-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>and McWhinney, Tara (2022) Invited Review Essay \u201cWhat\u2019s New About Social Reproduction?\u201d <em>Labour\/Le Travail<\/em>&nbsp; 89: 269-284.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bourgeault, Ivy; Daly, Tamara; Aubrecht, Catherine; Armstrong, Pat; Armstrong, Hugh and <strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>(2022) Leadership for Quality in Long-term Care. <em>Healthcare Management Forum <\/em>35:1 pp. 5-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>and Luxton, Meg (2021) Social Reproduction at Work, Social Reproduction as Work:&nbsp; A Feminist Political Economy Perspective, <em>Journal of Labor and Society<\/em>, <em>25<\/em>(4), 559-586. &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/10.1163\/24714607-bja10049\">https:\/\/doi-org.proxy.library.carleton.ca\/10.1163\/24714607-bja10049<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan<\/strong>; Cot\u00e9 Boucher, Karine and Przednowek, Anna (2021) Old and Dangerous: Bordering Old Migrants\u2019 Mobilities, Rejuvenating the Welfare State. <em>Social Politics <\/em>28(1): 24-46. <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/sp\/article\/28\/1\/24\/5540933?guestAccessKey=d126de15-0540-4789-baed-2836b029aa5e\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/sp\/article\/28\/1\/24\/5540933?guestAccessKey=d126de15-0540-4789-baed-2836b029aa5e<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent <\/strong><strong>Plenaries and Major Talks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Long Term Social Workers and Social Services Workers: What is the Practice Evidence? <\/em>With Samantha Peck, Family Councils of Ontario and Michelle Fleming, Bruyere CLRI, to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care and its Long-Term Care Community of Practice. Delivered via Teams, March 23, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Imagine Aging: Cross-Jurisdictional Age-Friendly Policy Conversation<\/em>. With Tamara Daly and Frode Jacobsen. <u>Attendees<\/u>: Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC); Health Canada; Treasury Board of Canada; City of Ottawa; Ottawa Council on Aging, City of Toronto; Regional Municipality of Halifax; City of Bergen; National Housing Bank, Norway. Delivered via Zoom, June 8, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Retaining and Refreshing Public Long-term Care<\/em>. Long-term Care Town Hall, Ottawa. Ontario Health Coalition and Make Revera Public Campaign. Delivered via Zoom, May 31, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Age-Friendly Communities-in-Communities: International Promising Practices.<\/em> With Dr. Tamara Daly. Public Health Agency of Canada National Age-Friendly Table, Zoom\/Conference Event, October 22, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Crumbling Away: Saskatchewan\u2019s Long Term Residential Care Policy. <\/em>Invited Keynote. Senior\u2019s Summit, Canadian Health Coalition and CUPE Healthcare Workers, Regina Saskatchewan, November 24, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Models in Long-Term Residential Care:&nbsp; Promises and Problems<\/em>. Invited Keynote. Champlain Dementia Network Annual Conference, Ottawa Ontario, November 12, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><u>Public Commentary<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan<\/strong> (March 24, 2022) Publicly funded home care urgently needs help. <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/braedley-ontarios-publicly-funded-home-care-urgently-needs-help\">https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/braedley-ontarios-publicly-funded-home-care-urgently-needs-help<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong, Pat; Armstrong, Hugh; Banerjee, Albert; <strong>Braedley, Susan<\/strong>; Choiniere, Jacqueline; Lowndes, Ruth and Struthers, Jim (May 7, 2021) Long-term Care Reform: No Time to Waste. <em>The Monitor, &nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/monitormag.ca\/articles\/long-term-care-reform-no-time-to-waste\">https:\/\/monitormag.ca\/articles\/long-term-care-reform-no-time-to-waste<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>(May 3, 2021) A Scathing Summary of How Ontario Mismanaged Long-term Care. <em>Ottawa Citizen,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/braedley-a-scathing-summary-of-how-ontario-mismanaged-long-term-care\">https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/braedley-a-scathing-summary-of-how-ontario-mismanaged-long-term-care<\/a> Republished by <em>Sudbury Star<\/em>, <em>Healthling<\/em>, <em>Timmins Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>(October 26, 2020) Time to Care About Proper Staffing in Nursing Homes [Op-ed]. <em>Ottawa Citizen,<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/braedley-time-to-care-about-proper-staffing-in-ontarios-nursing-homes\">https:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/opinion\/braedley-time-to-care-about-proper-staffing-in-ontarios-nursing-homes<\/a> Republished by <em>Sudbury Star<\/em>, <em>Napanee Guide<\/em>, <em>Today\u2019s Farmer<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"digital-stories\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Digital Stories<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan, <\/strong>John Woodhouse (2022) <em>Moving on Mobility.<\/em> Imagine Aging Partnership. Screened at community events. I created, wrote and directed this short film. <a href=\"https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/\">https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan<\/strong>; Chivers, Sally and Daly, Tamara (2019) <em>Less Lonely Community Care and LGBTQ2S+ seniors<\/em>. In release at events, entered in two film festivals, Imagine Aging Partnership. Screened at community events. I created, wrote and directed this short film. <a href=\"https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/\">https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chivers, Sally<strong>; Braedley<\/strong>, <strong>Susan <\/strong>and Daly, Tamara (2019) <em>Imagine Aging: Service Providers\u2019 Perspectives<\/em>. In release at events, Imagine Aging Partnership. I co-edited this film. <a href=\"https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/\">https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daly, Tamara; Chivers, Sally and <strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>(2019)<em> Imagine Aging: Community and Indigenous Seniors<\/em>. I co-edited this film. <a href=\"https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/\">https:\/\/imagine-aging.ca\/digital-stories\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Braedley, Susan <\/strong>and Armstrong, Pat (2018) <em>We Can Do Better in Long-term Residential Care<\/em>. From the SSHRC MCRI Re-imagining Long-Term Residential Care. An animated short video. 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