This unique research opportunity entails “investigating what interventions exist to support healthcare professionals to understand and use their conscience for ethical decision making.” The goal, logically enough but also juicy enough to merit some emotional involvement, is the creation of an academic “baseline sense of how conscience has been taken up for healthcare professionals in the inter-disciplinary and scholarly literature.”

The backdrop for the data to be analyzed is several literature reviews, one bearing the intriguing name aletheia.  For those who didn’t study Martin Heidegger along their life’s adventure, aletheia is a term Ancient Greeks to refer to the unfolding process of reality.  It also literally can refer to objective truth as a process that includes personal excellence.

Just as we’re not always sure why we feel a certain way in a given instance – be it eye contact, karma, or ineffable connectivity, sometimes we just know that we ought to do or not do a certain something.  Where the health and well-being of others is concerned, both being the purview of our aptly-named industry of health care, the unfolding of conscience definitely matters—even if the science behind it is tricky or inexplicable.
If this all piques your intrigue, if it triggers your inner self in a place you’re not sure how to quantify, then by all means send your transcript, resume, one or two references, and cover letter to Dr.  Christina Lamb at clamb@athabascau.ca