About the Woodend Clinical Education Research Grant

Annually, CASN offers a $5,000 Woodend Clinical Education Research Grant. The purpose is to fund a graduate (master’s or doctoral) student’s research project focusing on clinical practice education.

Dr. Kirsten Woodend states, “We have been using the same clinical education model pretty much back to Florence Nightingale. With the pressures to increase numbers of nursing students and increasing challenges in finding placements there’s a great need to explore the way we prepare registered nurses for practice, trialing new approaches and building a body of evidence to help guide us.  It is my hope that this graduate student research grant will encourage the building of programs of research in this area.”

Research Funding

Funds for this grant are provided by the Woodend Clinical Education Research Grant.

Grant Details

Grants available: 1 per calendar year
Funding: up to $5,000 for 1 year
Deadline for submissions: May 2, 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern time
Date that funds will be released: July 1, 2025
Applications can be either in French or English.

Eligibility Criteria

• The applicant must be a graduate (master’s or doctoral) student enrolled in a program at a CASN member school.
• If the principal or co-investigator received the grant, they must wait 3 years before being eligible to receive another grant.
• The successful applicant must agree to sign a research agreement.
• The research must address clinical education research that involves students or faculty directly while they are in the nursing education program.
• The application is 10 pages maximum, excluding required attachments, using an 11-point font and maintaining the margins as they appear on the application form.
• All documents must be in one PDF with a maximum size of 45 MB.
• Submissions must include all requested information.

How to Apply

All applications and supporting documentation must be submitted via email to Jodie Lachance (jlachance@casn.ca).

• Information for Woodend Clinical Education Research Grant
• Evaluation for Woodend Clinical Education Research Grant
• Application for Woodend Clinical Education Research Grant