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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.
Research Interests
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.
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, (University of Alberta)
… → 2017
M.A, (University of Alberta)
… → 2009
B.A. Hons, (University of Alberta)
… → 2007
External positions
Adjunct (Faculty of Graduate Studies) in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University
1 Sep. 2022 → 25 Jun. 2025
Keywords
- HM Sociology
- Risk
- Uncertainty
- Intersectionality
- Gender
- Caregiving
- Parenting
- Health
- RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
- Vaccination
- Vaccine regulation
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being -
SDG 5 Gender Equality -
SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
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Investigating attributes of stigma towards individuals who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine: An analysis of user comment threads on Reddit conducted by the Canadian Immunization Research Network (CIRN)
Rotolo, B., Sanghadia, N. J., Dubé, È., Wallace, J. R., Graham, J. E., Huel, C., MacDonald, S. E., Manca, T. & Meyer, S. B., Feb. 2026, In: Social Science and Medicine. 391, 118911.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Parental acceptability of new RSV preventive therapies for infants: A cross-sectional survey in Canada
Fitzpatrick, T., Parsons Leigh, J., Brundin-Mather, R., MacDonald, J., Blanchard, W., Bolotin, S., Buchan, S. A., Brousseau, N., Castillo, E., Comeau, J. L., Dubé, È., Greyson, D., Halperin, S. A., Langley, J. M., Lee, J. S. W., MacDonald, S. E., Manca, T., Moss, S. J., Papenburg, J. & Vadlamudi, N. K. & 1 others, , 2026, In: Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 22, 1, 2588016.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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‘It’s not something that you just do:’ A qualitative analysis of emotion and risk in family decision-making about childhood COVID-19 vaccination
Manca, T. A., Willey, R., Lee, J. S. W., Marfo, E. A., Dubé, È. & MacDonald, S. E., 2026, In: Health, Risk and Society. 28, 1-2, p. 81-101 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
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Considering the impact of vaccine communication in the COVID-19 pandemic among adults in Canada: A qualitative study of lessons learned for future vaccine campaigns
Parsons Leigh, J., Moss, S. J., MacDonald, J., Cherak, M. S., Stelfox, H. T., Dubé, È., Fiest, K. M., Halperin, D. M., Ahmed, S. B., MacDonald, S. E., Straus, S. E., Manca, T., Ng Kamstra, J., Soo, A. & Halperin, S. A., 2025, In: Human Vaccines and Immunotherapeutics. 21, 1, 2448052.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
Open Access5 Citations (Scopus) -
Intersecting Inequities in COVID-19 Vaccination: A Discourse Analysis of Information Use and Decision-Making Among Ethnically Diverse Parents in Canada
Marfo, E. A., Manca, T., Cha, E., Aylsworth, L., Driedger, S. M., Meyer, S. B., Pelletier, C., Dubé, È. & MacDonald, S. E., Apr. 2025, In: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. 12, 2, p. 1027-1040 14 p., 100203.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal Article › peer-review
Open Access3 Citations (Scopus)