Jane McArthur, Ph.D. Sociology/Social Justice at the University of Windsor, combines her educational background in communications with her twenty-five years of working on issues of environmental and occupational health through community-based research, education and advocacy.
With past experience in Research Coordination and Assistance on projects including the "Risk Exploration Project", “Living and Working in Essex and Kent Counties”, and "Lifetime Histories Breast Cancer Research Study", Jane's work is rooted in community-based health investigations with a view to prevention.
Though her work for improved well-being and justice has often had breast cancer as a focus, she also works through broader issues of health and well-being as they intersect with gender, race, class and inequalities in power, all with a view to empowerment and social change from the grassroots up through various levels of governance.
With a recognition of the importance of the role of the media in contributing to the construction of realities in contemporary society, investigating the production of discourses are a pivotal aspect of Jane’s ongoing work in community environmental health perspectives.
Her dissertation research examines how women who work in an environment with an identified risk of breast cancer construct understandings and narratives of their risks and how women perceive and exercise agency in the acceptance, avoidance or negotiation of those risks.
Jane has received multiple awards and scholarships for her research, is a Member of the Windsor Cancer Research Group, an Affiliated Researcher with HRCVAW, an Informed Opinions Expert and is a champion for getting issues from the margins into the mainstream.
Experience
2014–2020
Research Assistant, University of Windsor
2007–2009
Research Coordinator, Risk Exploration Project, University of Windsor
2004–2008
Research Assistant, Lifetime Histories Breast Cancer Research Study, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW)
2006–2007
Project Coordinator, lIving and Working in Essex and Kent Counties, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW)
2005–2007
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Windsor
2001–2004
Development Officer, Capitol Theatre and Arts Centre (Windsor)
2000–2001
Writer and Education Consultant, National Health and Safety Conference on Occupational Stress, Canadian Union of Public Employees
1993–2000
Research Assistant and Video Production, Windsor Occupational Health Information Service
Education
2021
University of Windsor, Ph.D., Sociology/Social Justice
2014
University of Windsor, M.A., Communication and Social Justice
1998
University of Windsor, B.A.Hons, Communication Studies
Publications
2020
Ontario Health Care Workers in the Time of COVID-19, New Solutions
2018
Chapter 6 in Sick & Tired, “Challenging the Dominant Breast Cancer Causation Paradigm through the Lens of Media Discourses” , Fernwood Publishing
2014
“Toronto Star Coverage and the Politics of Breast Cancer”, Synaesthesia: Communication Across Cultures
Grants and Contracts
2018
SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Role:
Doctoral Fellow
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
2007
Risk Exploration Project
Role:
Research Coordinator
Funding Source:
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation - Ontario Chapter
2006
Living and Working in Essex and Kent Counties
Role:
Project Coordinator
Funding Source:
Ontario Trillium Foundation
2004
Lifetime Histories Breast Cancer Research Study
Role:
Research Assistant
Funding Source:
Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
1999
Student Program to Eliminate Environmental Cancers (SPEEC)