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Trudy Rudge
University of Sydney
Rate Professor Trudy Rudge
Always kind, respectful, and approachable.
Inspires students to achieve their best.
Creates a collaborative learning environment.
Always patient and encouraging to students.
Great Professor!
About Trudy
Professor Trudy Rudge is an Honorary Professor in the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, at the University of Sydney. She previously held the position of Professor of Nursing with a Chair in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Sydney Nursing School. Qualified as a Registered Nurse (RN), she earned a BA (Hons) and PhD. Throughout her career at the University of Sydney, Rudge has dedicated her scholarship to exploring the social, cultural, and organizational dimensions of nursing practice, employing ethnographic methods and social theory to illuminate everyday nursing work.
Her research specializations include nursing practices in acute care and neonatal intensive care units, clinical decision-making and knowledge as action, workplace relations, multiculturalism in nursing, the politics of ignorance and violence in healthcare settings, and bureaucratic influences on nursing. Rudge has made significant contributions through over 80 publications, amassing more than 1,200 citations. Notable works include 'With and for the Patient: The Knowledges Embodied in Nurses' Practices-of-Work in Acute Care' (2025, with Sarah Lake), 'Making things work: Using Bourdieu's theory of practice to uncover an ontology of everyday nursing in practice' (2021), 'The Social Relations of Ethnographic Fieldwork: Access, Ethics and Research Governance' (2023), 'Braided identities in acute care nurses' practices of work: professional, clinician, employee' (2022), 'Hypervisible Nurses: Effects of Circulating Ignorance and Knowledge on Acts of Whistleblowing in Health' (2020), 'Beyond and around mandatory reporting in nursing practice: Interrupting a series of deferrals' (2019), '(Re)Thinking Violence in Health Care Settings: A Critical Approach' (2013, editor), 'Abjectly Boundless: Boundaries, Bodies and Health Work' (2010, editor), and 'On the Politics of Ignorance in Nursing and Health Care: Knowing Ignorance' (2015, co-editor). Her scholarship has profoundly influenced nursing philosophy, ethnography, organizational theory, and critical discourse analysis in healthcare, providing insights into power dynamics, ethical discomfort, resilience, and racialized experiences in nursing workplaces.
Professional Email: trudy.rudge@sydney.edu.au