Jessica Penney

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Assistant Professor Faculty of Arts Department of Sociology Toronto, Ontario jessicapenney@torontomu.ca

Bio/Research

Jessica Penney (she/her) is a Nunatsiavut Inuk scholar raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut, with family from Rigolet and Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her research focuses on strengthening Inuit health, well-being and food sovereignty in the context of environmental issues in Inuit communities (su...

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Bio/Research

Jessica Penney (she/her) is a Nunatsiavut Inuk scholar raised in Iqaluit, Nunavut, with family from Rigolet and Carbonear, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her research focuses on strengthening Inuit health, well-being and food sovereignty in the context of environmental issues in Inuit communities (such as environmental contaminants and climate change).

Professor Penney's PhD research at the University of Glasgow focused on the lived experience of the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador. She most recently held a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Professor Penney is also passionate about collaborative Inuit research methodologies and ethics and serves on Qaujigiartiit Health Research Centre’s Ethics Katimajiit and the National Inuit Ethics Review Committee.


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