Fellowship Program
The Center for Nursing Philosophy Fellowship program supports promising nursing PhD students or interested nursing faculty to pursue targeted scholarship in nursing philosophy. The PhD Nursing Fellowship comes with a small stipend to be used at the fellow’s discretion for support during the fellowship period. The fellowship is a 1-quarter (10 week) commitment for intensive mentored scholarship in the Center for Nursing Philosophy (either virtually or in person depending on context), followed by 2 additional 10-week quarters of virtual mentorship to support scholarship completion. The expectation is that the end of the Fellowship corresponds with submission of the completed scholarship as a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
2024-2025 Fellows
Louie is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Band 7 Charge Nurse at the paediatric intensive care unit of The Portland Hospital for Women and Children. Louie’s current research interests are in the theorisation of nursing work within the context of sociotechnical interactions in technologically advanced medical settings using posthuman and new materialist approaches, and in the use of grounded theory and abductive analysis techniques as research methods. For the duration of the fellowship, he intends to examine the sociotechnical, material-discursive and relational entanglements of the posthuman child within the spectrum of health, illness and recovery.
Jonathan Bayuo is a Clinical Fellow (Burns & Plastics) and Research Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Adjunct Scholar, School of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ghana. Jonathan (he/him/his) identifies as African (precisely, Ghanaian). He holds a BSc degree in Nursing (Presbyterian University – Ghana), MPhil Nursing (University of Ghana), MSc Gerontology (University of Southampton), MSc Burn Care (Queen Mary University of London), LL.B (University of London), PhD (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and currently studying towards LLM Medical law and Ethics concurrently with professional legal training. Jonathan has extensive clinical experience across the continuum of burns management ranging from burn critical care to aftercare and he remains very active in terms of research, teaching, and clinical practice. His research interests span across burn care, models of care, wound management, ageing in place, palliative care in traditionally non-palliative care settings such as the critical care units, medical/ nursing jurisprudence/ philosophy, and qualitative methodologies. Within this fellowship, Jonathan will undertake a philosophical analysis examining the status and contribution of African philosophy to theory and knowledge development in nursing and midwifery. His project will focus on exploring the status and contributions of African philosophy to knowledge and theory development in nursing and midwifery.
Jamie B. Smith is a nurse, lecturer, and researcher based between Sheffield and Berlin. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, where his dissertation, titled “Ecologies of Care: Towards a Posthuman Institutional Ethnography of Nursing,” explored the intersections of nursing, institutional power, and critical posthuman theory. Currently, Jamie is a research associate at the Department of Gender in Medicine at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. In addition to his academic role, he practices clinically as a nurse specializing in renal and transplant care. Jamie’s research integrates critical posthuman theory with a mixed-methods approach, including quantitative, qualitative, and post-qualitative methodologies. His work focuses on how people, places, and institutional structures shape intimate relations and the practices of care. His project will focus on a Spinozan approach to speculative ethics in nursing.
Apply for Fellowship
The 2024-2025 application period is now closed.
For more information please contact Miriam Bender at miriamb@uci.edu.
Past Fellows
Louie is currently a PhD candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and a Band 7 Charge Nurse at the paediatric intensive care unit of The Portland Hospital for Women and Children. Louie’s current research interests are in the theorisation of nursing work within the context of sociotechnical interactions in technologically advanced medical settings using posthuman and new materialist approaches, and in the use of grounded theory and abductive analysis techniques as research methods. For the duration of the fellowship, he intends to examine the sociotechnical, material-discursive and relational entanglements of the posthuman child within the spectrum of health, illness and recovery.
Teresa Graziano MS, RN, BMTCN (they/them/theirs) is a white, queer, nonbinary activist, antiracist, feminist, and abolitionist nursing scholar currently completing their Ph.D. in nursing at the University of Connecticut. Their master of science in nursing is from the University of Connecticut, and their prelicensure bachelor of science in nursing is from the University of Rhode Island. Teresa works as a hematology-oncology/blood and marrow transplant nurse and previously worked as a hospice nurse.
Tracey Clancy, RN, PhD, a tenured, associate professor teaching, and the assistant dean of faculty development within the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary, Canada, is the 2023 fellow at the Center for Nursing Philosophy.
Her scholarly interests include nursing’s disciplinary perspective, curriculum development, educational leadership, meaningful work, peer mentorship, teaching presence, authentic learning, and self-authorship.
Clancy received her bachelor of nursing in 1996 from the University of Calgary, having completed her nursing diploma from the Foothills School of Nursing in Calgary in 1988.
She earned her master’s from the University of Calgary in 2008 where she focused on the phenomenon of uncertainty as an embodied space of transformation for defining clinical teaching practice.
In August 2022, Clancy completed her PhD in nursing from the School of Nursing within the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Her doctoral scholarship focused on exploring the meaning of teaching nursing from nursing’s disciplinary perspective and her dissertation is entitled, “Teaching Nursing as a Complex Emergent Discipline.”
Within this fellowship, Clancy will examine teaching nursing as a complex emergent paradigm of complexity that accounts for representations of knowing manifest through a process orientation, an ontology of difference, multiplicity, change, and navigating paradox.
Dillard-Wright, PhD, MA, RN, CNM (she/they, her/their, hers/theirs) lives and works in Augusta, Ga. Dillard-Wright is a white, fat, queer, genderqueer, feminist, antiracist, abolitionist, nurse dissident, activist-scholar. She/they completed her/their PhD at Augusta University College of Nursing.
Dillard-Wright earned her/their bachelor of science in science, technology, and culture from Georgia Institute of Technology and her master of arts in women’s history from Sarah Lawrence College. Dillard-Wright also completed their prelicensure master of science in nursing from Medical College of Georgia and a master of science in nursing in community-based nurse-midwifery from Frontier Nursing University.
Her/their vision for nursing education means preparing students to embrace the sociopolitical dimensions of nursing, activating a radical imagination for the profession in order to secure a more just, equitable future for all people.
Dillard-Wright is an assistant professor at Augusta University where she/they also direct the College of Nursing Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Her/their scholarship attends to ideas in nursing, focusing on the intersections where feminism, nursing, and activism interact. Her/their work accounts for both the normative ideologies that historically shape nursing while documenting those nurses who have resisted in various ways.
Dillard-Wright is a member of the International Philosophy of Nursing Society executive committee, a founding member of the Nursology Theory Collective, a co-organizer of Nursing Mutual Aid, and the American Association of History of Nursing.
Zahra received her bachelor’s and master’s in midwifery from Iran and joined the Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing as a PhD student in 2019. She was a member of the Brilliant Talent Institution during her bachelor’s and master’s studies. She has three years of experience working as a nurse-midwife practitioner in both economically poor and rich regions.
As a PhD student, her research interest is in pregnancy, maternity and child health. She credits a required philosophy of science course with sparking her interest in her first year as a PhD student.
Zahra wants to trace the history of the concept of “nursing philosophy” in the literature. Her goals are to:
- Elucidate how nurses and other scholars have “philosophized” nursing over time
- Show how that philosophizing has influenced nursing’s understanding of its discipline
