Dr. Mikael Jansson
About Mikael
Dr. Mikael Jansson is a scientist at the Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research (formerly CARBC) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology. His current research uses a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to understand marginalized populations and low-prestige occupations. His current research focus is on intimate partnerships. He has recently completed a longitudinal study of street-involved youth to see how their lives, and in particular their health status, change as a result of their street involvement.
Projects
- Comprendre le travail du sexe
- Gender, violence and health: Contexts of vulnerabilities, resiliencies and care among people in the sex industry
- Sex workers as educators: networking HIV prevention strategies
- The Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act: A structural intervention impacting health equity for sex workers
- Understanding Sex Work
- Youth Experiences Project: Police discretion with youth who use illicit substances
- Youth-Led Development of Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Individuals Aged 13 To 18: A Pathway to Better Mental Health and Wellness
Publications
- Addiction research centres and the nurturing of creativity: the Centre for Addictions Research of BC, Canada
- A reasoned action model of male client involvement in commercial sex work in Kibera, a large informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
- Benefits and constraints of intimate partnerships for HIV positive sex workers in Kibera, Kenya
- Building on the evidence: A working paper on the sex industry in Canada
- Centering Sex Workers’ Voices in Law and Social Policy
- CISUR Bulletin 21: Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Youth, By Youth
- Community Empowerment and Transformative Learning among Sex Workers
- Developing Knowledge Transfer with Non-Profit Organizations Serving Vulnerable Populations
- Disability stigmatization as a barrier to employment equity for legally-blind Canadians
- Factors contributing to frequent police contact among young people: a multivariate analysis including homelessness, community visibility, and drug use in British Columbia, Canada
- Family kinship patterns and female sex work in the informal urban settlement of Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya
- In for the Long Haul: Knowledge Translation between Academic and Nonprofit Organizations
- Lack of Confidence in Police Creates a “Blue Ceiling” for Sex Workers' Safety
- Legalization of Cannabis in Canada: Implementation strategies and public health
- Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines for Youth, by Youth
- Managing Conflict: An Examination of Three-Way Alliances in Canadian Escort and Massage Businesses
- Occupational Stigma and Mental Health: Discrimination and Depression among Front-Line Service Workers
- Partners and clients of female sex workers in an informal urban settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
- Pathways and barriers to condom use among Ariaal Agro-pastoralists of Northern Kenya
- Police discretion to charge young people who use drugs prior to cannabis legalization in British Columbia, Canada: a brief report of quantitative findings
- Poverty, Material Hardship, and Mental Health among Workers in Three Front-Line Service Occupations
- Prostitution Stigma and Its Effect on the Working Conditions, Personal Lives, and Health of Sex Workers
- Public Drinking Venues as Risk Environments: Commercial Sex, Alcohol and Violence in a Large Informal Settlement in Nairobi, Kenya
- Regulating Sex Work: Heterogeneity in Legal Strategies for Controlling Prostitution
- Sex Work: A Comparative Study
- Sex work and three dimensions of self-esteem: self-worth, authenticity and self-efficacy
- Sex workers as peer health advocates: community empowerment and transformative learning through a Canadian pilot program
- Social relationships and social support among street-involved youth
- Society, the basics: Fifth Canadian edition
- Stigma, service work, and substance use: A two-city, two-country comparative analysis
- Would you think about doing sex for money? Structure and agency in deciding to sell sex in Canada
- Youth injuries in British Columbia: Type, Settings, Treatment and Costs, 2003-2007
- “Well, It Should Be Changed for One, Because It’s Our Bodies”: Sex Workers’ Views on Canada’s Punitive Approach towards Sex Work