Dr. Ariel Ducey (she/her)

Dr. Ariel Ducey is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary. Her research centers on issues of responsibility, ethicality, knowledge, and emotions in the institutions and practices of health care and medicine. Ariel has studied how frontline care providers in New York City create meaning and opportunity at the intersection of two industries that are increasingly organized according to the logic of markets — health care and education. She has published on affect and caregiving labor in early, influential edited collections, and has led interdisciplinary, qualitative research examining values and practices in pelvic floor surgery and their impact on women’s health. Ariel led a transdisciplinary project funded by NFRF on medical ways of sensing and knowing, with Drs. Sengupta and Kelly, and graduate students from sociology, family medicine, and learning sciences, including Santanu Dutta and Megha Sanyal. The research team created a free, public, interactive modelling installation called Moral Horizons of Pain which was mounted at Canmore artsPlace (Alberta),and won a Making and Doing Award at the annual meetings of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) in 2023.