Scholarships and Awards

Please submit all inquiries and applications by e-mail to the IAHC Scholarship and Awards Committee Members:  

Awards/Scholarships are open to IAHC members.

Elizabeth Olafson, Co Chair  Scholarships@humancaring.org
Dawn Hawthorne, Co Chair 

Nur-Fadzilah Anyaman, Member 

Charlotte Barry, Member 

Marlienne Goldin, Member

Kuntarti Kuntarti, Member 

Kathy Oman, Member 

Watch 2022 Scholarship Award Presentation

Watch 2021 Scholarship Award Presentation

2023 Scholarship Applications due date March 6th, 2023.

The Board Members of the International Association for Human Caring, through the generosity of donors, are pleased to offer Nine Scholarships/Awards to support attendance at the Annual IAHC Conference and also to Advance Caring and Caring Science through specific theoretical perspectives. The application process is open to anyone interested in advancing Caring and Caring Science and to be the recipient of an Award/Scholarship, the applicant must be a member of IAHC.  

This year the Conference will be virtual and the recipients of Scholarships/Awards will have their conference registration paid by the donors or to support research. 

Please review the various Scholarships and application processes to select the one that is congruent with your goals of advancing Caring and Caring Science by attendance at the conference and/or by advancing a specific theoretical perspective in research. 

1. A Lynne Wagner Student Award
2. Jean Watson Student Award
3. Jim Droesbeke Student Caring Award
4. Justin Z. Goldin Student Caring Award.

The Five Awards for Advancing Caring from the lens of a specific Theoretical Perspective are:

1. Boykin and Schoenhofer Nursing as Caring Award
2. Madeleine Leininger Culture Care Award
3. Parker, Barry, & King Community Caring Award
4. Shirley C. Gordon Award
5. Vicente Teves Locsin, Jr. Research and Scholarship in Nursing Award