Dr. Katelin Albert
Katelin Albert (PhD) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada.
Katelin Albert is a medical and health sociologist whose research interests include vaccination politics, health behaviours and health decision making, sexual health & sex-education, gendered health technologies, like the HPV vaccine. Her analytical lens focuses on how people navigate personal health and safety decisions, parental understandings of responsibility for children’s health, sexual & gendered subjectivities across the life course, along with gendered norms in health practices and decision making.
Recent projects include i) an investigation of B.C. residents’ COVID-19 vaccination attitudes and health behaviours, exploring what people do with public and scientific information (their health information practices) during the COVID-19 pandemic; ii) campus based sexual harassment and student mental health; and iii) new research on wait times and waiting for sexual and reproductive health care.
