Matthew Johnston (0000-0003-0622-2838)

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Matthew S. Johnston holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and is a postdoctoral fellow at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He studies the sociology of mental health and criminology through a realist and compassionate lens. He has published a number of journal articles on the topics of gender, security, and mental health, most notably in Qualitative Research, Disability & Society, Men and Masculinities, Crime Media Culture, Gender, Work & Organization, Social Movement Studies, Canadian Review of Sociology, and Punishment & Society.

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Carleton University: Ottawa, ON, CA

2015 to 2019 | PhD (Sociology and Anthropology)

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Carleton University: Ottawa, ON, CA

University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON, CA

University of Ottawa: Ottawa, ON, CA

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Storying Madness: Narrative of Psychiatric Survivors

Storying Madness: Narrative of Psychiatric Survivors

Exploring the lived experiences and gender identities of trans gendered prisoners, and the correctional/penal discourses used to manage trans persons within the criminal justice system

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Exposures to potentially psychologically traumatic events: A national study of correctional workers in Canadian provinces and territories.

A Canadian national study of provincial and territorial correctional workers' suicidal ideation, plans, and attempts

Normalizing fentanyl: interpreting the perceived ‘risk’ of correctional officer work

Provincial correctional workers: Examining the relationships between alcohol use, mental health disorders, and suicide behaviour.

Understanding prison living: Mitigating the problem of ‘incompatible’ incarcerated people through the perspectives of correctional officers

Cannabis use among correctional workers in Ontario, Canada: Prevalence, mental health comorbidities, and risk and protective factors associated with cannabis use.

The Moral Impacts of Organizational Stress on Correctional Officers

Invisible ghosts of care and penality: Exploring Canadian correctional workers’ perceptions of prisoner well-being, accountability and power

“That’s Not Rehabilitation, That’s Enabling”: Correctional Officer Perspectives on the Prison Needle Exchange Program

Understanding PTSD among correctional workers in Manitoba, Canada: Key considerations of social variables

Assessing Road to Mental Readiness (R2MR) training among correctional workers in Canada

Unpacking correctional workers’ experiences with transgender prisoners in Nova Scotia, Canada

Fight or flight? Exploring suicide thoughts, experiences, and behaviours among correctional workers and their interventions of agency

Improving the Mental Health of Correctional Workers: Perspectives From the Field

Flying through the Cuckoo’s Nest: Countering the politics of agency in public criminology

‘Get paid, get out’: online resistance to call centre labour in Canada

When Madness Meets Madness: Insider Reflections on Doing Mental Health Research

"Get paid, get out": Online resistance to call centre labour in Canada

Politics and tensions of doing online research: Lessons learned by a straight-white-cisgender man

Psychiatric Post-Anarchism: A New Direction for Insurrection in the Mental Health System

Uncovering Misogyny in semi-structured interviews: How reflexivity and the "disgruntled" insider status shape knowledge production in qualitative masculinity research

The Criminal Justice System on Trial: Shaming, Outrage, and Gendered Tensions in Public Responses to the Jian Ghomeshi Verdict

“We fight for all living things”: Countering misconceptions about the radical animal liberation movement.

Men can change: Transformation, agency, ethics and closure during critical dialogue in interviews

“It’s for their own good”: Techniques of neutralization and security guard violence against psychiatric patients

“Until that magical day…no campus is safe”: Reflections on how transgender students experience gender and stigma on campus

You gotta kick ass a little harder than that: The subordination of feminine, masculine, and queer identities by private security in a hospital setting

Power, control and coercion: Exploring hyper-masculine performativity by private guards in a psychiatric ward setting

“Dirt, death and danger? I don’t recall any adverse reaction…”: Masculinity and the taint management of hospital private security work

“Telling masculine tales”: Tracing my embodied experience as a psychiatric ward security guard through ethnographic narrative writing