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17th Annual Canadian Hermeneutic Institute
June 3, 4, 5, 2026 Aloft Calgary University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Visiting scholar: Dr. Graham McCaffrey, Associate Professor, Faculty of Nursing, University of Calgary

Dr. Graham McCaffrey is an Associate Professor of Nursing at the University of Calgary. He has an undergraduate degree in history from the University of Cambridge and trained as a registered nurse at St. Mary’s Hospital in London. He completed a certificate in psychosocial nursing at the Cassel Hospital, a therapeutic community where he worked for six years before moving to Canada in 1995. He worked in various capacities as a mental health nurse before completing a PhD in nursing in 2012. His doctoral work was about applying concepts from Zen Buddhism to the work of mental health nurses, with hermeneutics as a framework for interpretation. He joined the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary in 2012. He has continued to explore the possibilities of hermeneutic ideas for practice disciplines, making connections to the field of health humanities, and introducing new theoretical resources to the nursing literature, including the work of Michel Serres and enactivism. He is author of Nursing and Humanities (2020, Routledge) and co-author of Conducting Hermeneutic Research: From Philosophy to Practice (2015, 2025, Peter Lang).