Amélie Perron, RN, PhD is a Full Professor at the School of Nursing at the University of Ottawa, Canada, and Co-President of the Nursing Observatory. Her clinical practice is grounded in community psychiatry and crisis intervention. She has worked on many research projects in psychiatric nursing and forensic psychiatry in Canada, France and Australia, as well projects on nurse whistleblowing. Her work is grounded in Critical Theory and Feminist perspectives. Her research interests include nursing care to captive and marginalised populations; power relationships between health care professionals, patients and care settings; issues of discourse, risk, gender and ethics; and nursing epistemology. Through her work with the Nursing Observatory, she is more specifically interested in the sociopolitical aspects of care, nurses’ political action and nurse whistleblowing. She is co-author of “On the politics of ignorance in nursing and health care: Knowing ignorance” (2015, Routledge) and she co-edited “Power and the Psychiatric Apparatus: Assistance, Repression and Transformation” (2014, Ashgate) and “(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach” (2012, Ashgate). She has published 90 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters and has presented at numerous international and national peer-reviewed conferences in a range of disciplines. She is also Editor of Aporia – The Nursing Journal.
Twitter: @ame_perron
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