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Dal's Nursing Leaders

Dalhousie’s School of Nursing is home to respected faculty members who are among the world’s leaders in nursing research and education.

Our faculty is committed to expanding nursing knowledge, furthering practice and seeking better health care outcomes. Faculty members accomplish these goals through research, partnerships with health care stakeholders and by educating the next generation of nurses.

Featured Faculty

Each month we will highlight a member of our faculty at either of our Halifax or Yarmouth sites. Check back often to learn more about our team.

Megan Aston

Biography

Megan Aston, RN, PhD, is a Full Professor at Dalhousie University School of Nursing. She is the Associate Director of Research and International Affairs and the Director of the Centre for Transformative Nursing and Health Research. Her teaching expertise includes qualitative health research, and family and community health nursing. Her program of research is guided by feminist poststructuralism and focuses on family, perinatal, child, and newborn health. She uses feminist poststructuralism informed by discourse analysis to examine how nurses, health care professionals, and clients negotiate beliefs, values, and practices that have been socially and institutionally constructed through relations of power. She has secured provincial and national funding to support research studies in Nova Scotia and Tanzania. These include: the virtual village online postpartum support sessions, mapping mothers’ social networks; postpartum home visits; hospital experiences of children with intellectual disabilities, their parents, and nurses; 2SLGBTQ+ compassion; queer women’s birthing experiences; obesity management; and nurses’ bereavement support experiences.