Associate Professor
Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
Health Science Building, University of Toronto
155 College Street, Room 162
Toronto, ON M5T 1P8
Email: shan.mohammed@utoronto.ca
Biosketch
Shan Darrel Mohammed, RN, PhD (he/him) is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. His scholarship of teaching and learning includes critical pedagogy and post-truth in higher education. Dr. Mohammed’s research encompasses several areas such as supportive and end of life care, early palliative care, the medicalization of dying, family caregiving, homecare, and nursing practice in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Mohammed theoretically locates his work in poststructuralism, biomedicalization, critical social theory, and feminist ethics. In addition, he has methodological experience in generic qualitative research, discourse analysis, constructivist grounded theory, and critical case study.
Research Interests
Palliative care; nursing ethics; the medicalization of death and dying; poststructuralism
Selected Publications
Mohammed, S., Swami, N., Pope, A., Rodin, G., & Zimmermann, C. (2023). Strategies used by outpatient oncology nurses to introduce early palliative care: A qualitative study. Cancer Nursing, 10-1097. DOI: 10.1097/NCC.0000000000001258
Mohammed, S., Peter, E., Killackey, T., & Maciver, J. (2021). The “nurse as hero” discourse in the COVID-19 pandemic: A poststructural discourse analysis. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 103887.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2021.103887
Mohammed, S., Peter, E., Gastaldo, D., & Howell, D. (2020). The medicalisation of the dying self: The search for life extension in advanced cancer. Nursing Inquiry, 27(1), e12316. https://doi.org/10.1111/nin.12316
