Introduction -- Chapter 1. Person-centred Nursing Research Principles -- Chapter 2. The Person-centred Nursing Framework and Nursing Research -- Chapter 3. Coming to know Personhood: philosophical 'dates' -- Chapter 4. Overviews of person-centered research: selected specific research examples. - Chapter 5. Developing theoretical frameworks: integrating specific values and principles into research -- Chapter 6. Methodologies for Person-centred Nursing Research -- Chapter 7. Knowing how to act - person centred research methods -- Chapter 8. Knowing, Being and Becoming in person-centred research (action research chapter). - Chapter 9. Phenomenological and hermeneutic approaches -- Chapter 10. Experimentation and Quasi- experimentation in person-centred research -- Chapter 11. Multiple and mixed methods approaches -- Chapter 12. Person-centredness in education research -- Chapter 13. Adopting a person-centred approach in doctoral supervision -- Chapter 14. Summary chapter: facing the future with confidence.

This book is the first ever to offer a contemporary collection of different perspectives on person-centredness in international doctoral nursing research. The research in the book is based on the ideas and values of personhood and person-centeredness, which have been used and can be seen to guide research approaches, inform research designs and theorize research findings. Further, a specific framework for person-centred nursing is embedded throughout the research studies presented in the text. The Person-centred Nursing Framework (PCNF) developed by Brendan McCormack and Tanya McCance in 2010, is recognized as a nursing theory and this book further develops it as a basis for research and for advancing person-centredness in nursing. The framework informs all stages of the research process, from design through to dissemination. The book is structured into a number of highly engaging chapters written by doctoral candidates, and recently graduated candidates. The opening and closing chapters, written by the editors, place the subsequent chapters in a global context of person-centredness and nursing. The potential for person-centred nursing research to be a global movement is recognized and debated. The subsequent chapters lead readers through philosophical ideas, methodologies and methods whilst also offering reflective and honest insights into learning how to become a person-centred researcher. This field is growing and developing but yet there is no specific book available. As a result, researchers spend considerable time and effort translating existing research methodologies into person-centred perspectives. This book fills this gap and acts as a key resource for future nurse researchers. The text is intended for, and benefits nursing doctoral candidates, masters candidates and academic staff who teach and supervise research candidates; it may also appeal to other graduate learners. The book has international contributions which makes it appealing internationally.