Principles for Person-Centred Nursing Research

In this chapter, and the following one, we set the scene for the book and hopefully, pave the way for the authors who follow, to share their research endeavours. All the authors in this book are doctoral candidates/students or recently graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy award, with whom we are working in some capacity, most often as research supervisors or mentors. Thus, the research, along with the enveloping theoretical ideas, shared in this book, in a way, offers an exhibition for others to come to their own view about the nature of person-centred research. We very much see what is offered here as being a useful resource for readers to build on, so that together, we are all collaborating in building a map for research that has at its heart persons, personhood and the continuity of humanising nursing care.