This article describes a project designed to change the climate of whiteness in academic nursing. Using an emancipatory, antiracist perspective from whiteness studies, we describe a project that helped faculty and staff to work together to challenge and begin to change the status quo of unnamed white privilege and racial injustice in nursing education.

In 2003, Kim Manley and Brendan McCormack wrote that practice development needed to be underpinned by critical social science that would enable ‘sustainable change through practitioner enlightenment, empowerment and emancipation and an associated culture’ (Manley and McCormack, 2003, p 22). In this article they drew on the work of Habermas to argue that technical and practical knowledge is esse...

OBJECTIVE To describe the meaning of the theme of empowerment from research on health promotion in nursing from the perspective of nurses participating in the study. METHODS Manual data analysis and QSR NUD*IST Vivo were used to analyse the data generated by individual and focus group interviews and the critical incident technique with 32 qualified nurses working in an acute hospital setting ...

Disability research is conducted within a highly politicised ‘hotbed’ of competing paradigms and principles. New researchers, who want to work within the social model, are soon faced with complex and challenging methodological and philosophical dilemmas. The social model advocates research agendas that are focused on the emancipation and empowerment of disabled people but, in reality, these are...