Dr. Manca earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Alberta and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Dalhousie University. She conducts qualitative atudies and collaborates on interdisciplinary and multiple method studies. Her expertise in qualitative methods includes narrative analysis, discourse analysis, and consensus-based research methods among others. 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. 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.