Visiting Scholar: Heggie, Clare

Clare Heggie is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of New Brunswick in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and a Vanier Canada Scholar. Her doctoral research explores the intersection of rurality, gender and criminalization as it determines access to healthcare. She is also the Research Coordinator for Wellness Within, a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing reproductive justice for criminalized and incarcerated people. In this role and in her doctoral work she co-leads community-based research on access to sexual and reproductive healthcare within the socio-legal context of imprisonment in Canada, with recent projects on access to abortion and conjugal visitation. She has previously been a visiting researcher at the University of Sydney, Ulster University and University of Hertfordshire.
Area(s) of expertise: Prison studies; Health in prisons; Carceral geography; Reproductive health