Academic Grant & IAFOR Scholarship Recipients

IAFOR's grants and scholarships programme provides financial support to PhD students and early career academics, with the aim of helping them pursue research excellence and achieve their academic goals through interdisciplinary study and interaction. Awards are based on the appropriateness of the educational opportunity in relation to the applicant's field of study, financial need, and contributions to their community and to IAFOR's mission of interdisciplinarity. Scholarships are awarded based on availability of funds from IAFOR and vary with each conference. Find out more about IAFOR grants and scholarships: www.iafor.org/financial-support

Our warmest congratulations go to the following scholarship recipients who have been selected to receive grants and scholarships to present their research at the conference.

Dr Yassin Mohammed Yesuf (ACP2023 | Virtual Presentation)

Dr Yassin Mohammed is currently an assistant professor of social psychology in the department of psychology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia. Dr Yassin graduated with a BA degree Educational Psychology and with an MA in Counseling Psychology, both from Addis Ababa University, School of Psychology. Dr Yassin’s research works are geared towards issues pertaining to education, health and psychology.

67129 | Why and How Parents Abandon Their Children? The Psychosocial Burden They Went Through: Qualitative Case Study in Gondar, Ethiopia

Chandrabati Chakraborty (ACERP2023 | Virtual Presentation)

Chandrabati Chakraborty is at present a research scholar in the Department of English, Adamas University, India, working in the field of existentialism and Vedanta.

68900 | East West Discourse: An Esoteric Comparison of the Western Philosophy and the Eastern Vedanta

Christian Arisandi Kiding Allo (ACERP2023 | Live-Stream Presentation)

Christian Arisandi is currently a master's student at the Driyarkara Philosophy College with a concentration on Divine Philosophy. He earned his undergraduate degree at Pentecostal College with a thesis critically and theologically evaluating Richard Dawkins' thoughts on the creation of the universe and the origins of religion.

68971 | The Significance of Thomas Aquinas’ Christology to the “Death of the Subject” in the Postmodern Era

Papai Barman (AGen2023 | Virtual Presentation)

Papai Barman is currently doing a PhD on Aging and its living arrangement and mental health condition from International Institute for Population Science in India.

68446 | Reason Behind Grandchild Caring and Its Effect on Grandparent’s Social Engagement in Different Household Settings in India: Using a Bayesian

Kirubel Mussie (AGen2023 | Virtual Presentation)

Kirubel Manyazewal Mussie is a PhD Candidate and Research Assistant in Biomedical Ethics at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics Basel (IBMB), Switzerland. He obtained his master’s (MPhil) degree in international community health from the University of Oslo, Norway, and his bachelors in social work from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He has internship and work experience in different countries, holding both academic and nonacademic positions. His general research interests include the sociocultural and ethical aspects of health, ageing and vulnerability, gender, and qualitative research methods.

68499 | Universal Access to Healthcare for Older Patients in Ethiopia: A Qualitative Analysis of Perspectives From Older Patients and Health Professionals