Caring Science Circles

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Caring Science Circles

Caring Science Circles (CSC): is a unique opportunity to come together as students, staff and faculty to explore our authentic selves and individual talents, combined with the knowledge of caring science, developed by nurse scholar and living legend, Dr. Jean Watson (https: www.watsoncaringscience.org). Whether you are novice or expert in your caring science knowledge, your participation in our new local community would be greatly celebrated. We so hope you will come and consider co-creating this new community with us. We meet the first Thursday of every month virtually. If interested, please contact Lisa Goldberg at: lisa.goldberg@dal.ca

“…we accept that true love is rooted in recognition and acceptance, that love combines acknowledgment, care responsibility, commitment, and knowledge, we understand there can be no love without justice.”
(bell hooks, 2000, p. 104)

About Us

Our Leadership Team

Cameron Albright

I am a registered nurse with seven years of clinical experience. I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Dalhousie University in 2018 and completed my Master of Nursing at Athabasca University in 2024. I’m now pursuing doctoral studies at Dalhousie, where I have the honour of being supervised by Lisa Goldberg—a mentor whose guidance continues to shape my thinking in expansive ways. From the beginning, I’ve lived nursing not only as a clinical profession, but as an ethical, existential, and human practice. My graduate work has extended from my experience as a clinician during the COVID-19 pandemic—long, uncertain days on the frontlines that demanded not just skill, but moral clarity and presence. That experience continues to inform my interests at the intersection of care, philosophy, and lived experience. I’m especially passionate about how we remain grounded, compassionate, and connected in systems that so often try and pull us in the opposite direction. I find joy in simple life pleasures—reading books, drinking tea, baking bread, and playing with my cats!

Lisa Bland

I am a Registered Nurse, community leader, and volunteer with more than 15 years of nursing practice. I am a baccalaureate prepared Registered Nurse (Dal BScN ‘08) and Master of Science nursing student (fall 2025). With nursing expertise in perinatal health, gynaecology, public health, and care of elders, my nursing care has remained focused throughout all with Caring Science Theory as an embodied daily practice. My research interest is in reproductive justice & women’s health complications for people of African descent: specifically menstrual health for teens and young adults of African descent, and uterine fibroids. In addition to research interests which empower and support women, I am an avid community leader and volunteer with Girl Guides of Canada, the Council for African Canadian Education, and various community events. I am a recipient of the 2023 West Hants Regional Municipality Volunteer Service Award, and a recipient of the King Charles III Coronation Medal (2025). When I am enjoying downtime with my family, it’s on my farm with goats, chickens, and dogs!

Lisa Goldberg

I’m Lisa Goldberg (she/her/hers), a nurse educator, scholar, and Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Dalhousie University. My work centers on caring science, 2SLGBTQ+ health, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility (EDIA). I bring a deeply personal and interdisciplinary lens to my teaching and research, shaped by my background in dance, philosophy, and international education, as well as my lived experience navigating the academy as a 2SLGBTQ+ person living with (dis)Abilities—while also recognizing the privilege I hold as a white woman. I’m passionate about student-centered learning, nurse advocacy, and challenging systemic inequities in health and education. Since 2004, I’ve led an award-winning qualitative research program, collaborated with national and international scholars (including Dr. Jean Watson), and mentored graduate students through innovative, socially conscious scholarship. Beyond the university, I’m a lover of tea, Harry Potter, and whimsical frocks, and I share life with my sweet rescue kitty, Miss Tulip. Read more here.

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