We have over 750 individuals registered for our upcoming Annual Meeting in Athens, Greece! We look forward to welcoming everyone to this event.
There have been some questions about the meeting being held in a hybrid format. The meeting will NOT be hybrid. However, for those persons who indicated that they need to present virtually, we will have their sessions scheduled in meeting rooms with the ability to connect individual presenters so that they can give their talks. Virtual presenters will be connected for the full session, from start to finish. You MUST have notified ISPP that you need to present virtually, however, so that your session can be scheduled in one of the meeting rooms with the necessary connectivity. Please note that posters are not eligible for virtual presentation.
It has come to our attention that ONE of the nights over ISPP’s conference at the Grand Hyatt Athens is completely sold-out, 16 July. We still have plenty of rooms available in the ISPP block for the nights prior, and some still available for 17 July. We encourage you to make reservations at the Hyatt for the nights prior, so that you can extend your reservation should rooms become available for 16 July. If you need lodging for the night of 16 July, we suggest that you seek something that can be canceled at no charge, so that you can stay at the Hyatt the full time, if that becomes possible.
The election process for our incoming Governing Council members, who will start their terms at the close of the conference in Athens, is complete. We welcome the incoming leadership:
Catarina Kinnvall, President-elect
Michael E. Morrell, Vice President – Initiatives
Magdalena Bobowik, Governing Council Member
Elif Erisen, Governing Council Member
Amanda Bittner, Governing Council Member
Héctor Carvacho, Governing Council Member
Mike Quayle, Governing Council Member
New members for the Early Career Committee will be elected in the coming months. Please watch your e-mail for announcements.
Thank you to our outgoing Governing Council members and those in other roles who are circulating out this coming July, for their years of service to ISPP:
Felicia Pratto, Past President
Aleksandra Cichocka, Vice President – Initiatives
Yasemin G. Acar, Governing Council Member
Rosario Aguilar, Governing Council Member
Monica Gerber, Governing Council Member
Shelley McKeown Jones, Governing Council Member
Laura K. Taylor, Governing Council Member
Mukadder Okuyan, Early Career Committee Ex-Officio Chair
Amena Amer, Early Career Committee Member
Nina Spälti, Early Career Committee Member
Jasper van Assche, Early Career Committee Member
Henriette Mueller, Early Career Committee Member
Pinar Eldemir, Early Career Committee Member
Have you checked the ISPP website Announcements page lately? There are a number of job openings posted on the page, along with some other announcements of interest.
Are you aware of the ISPP Virtual Seminar Series? We currently have a series running monthly seminars (virtual) live in the Asia-Pacific region.
As always, if you have any questions or concerns regarding your ISPP membership or ISPP benefits or events, please feel free to contact the ISPP Central Office.
Sev Bennett, CMP, PMP
Executive Director, ISPP
Save the dates! ISPP's upcoming meetings
Our 2022 Annual Meeting is planned to be held 14-17 July 2022 in Athens, Greece.
Our 2023 Annual Meeting is planned to be held 9-11 July 2023 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
If you are interested in hosting a future conference of ISPP, please contact the Central Office to obtain the necessary guidelines and materials.
Call for the Twinning Program
Call for the Twinning Program in English [see below for the call in Arabic, French, Spanish and Turkish]
We are happy to announce that we are still accepting applications for our New Twinning Program among Scholars under Threat (ISPP members who lost their academic positions or their income in direct connection with political persecution and/or to members who have been displaced as a result of political persecution). The New Twinning Program has been set up with the aim of facilitating scholarly collaborations between threatened political psychologists and program partners. These collaborations can offer the opportunity for threatened scholars to continue their academic activities, maintain and advance their careers, and integrate into international political psychology; furthermore, partners can engage in political advocacy on behalf of threatened scholar. We are grateful to the 24 scholars who have already expressed their interest to work together with a scholar under threat as partners. We would kindly like to ask our members to reach out to those scholars within their networks around the world who may benefit from participating.
You can find more information about the Twinning Program here.
ISPP is committed to protecting its members whose academic freedom is at risk anywhere in the world due to the political context where they work or live. ISPP's Scholars Under Threat (SUT) Committee has been working to support ISPP's members at risk. Academic freedom as it relates to both research and teaching is absolutely essential for the advancement of scientific knowledge. The SUT can support academics by providing free membership to ISPP, access to emergency funds for scholars under threat to continue their livelihoods, and access to the ISPP twinning scheme for academics who wish to have mentorship or support from colleagues in less risky contexts. If you or someone you know has had their academic freedom put at risk and feel that you would benefit from ISPP support, please contact us.
The Senior Researcher will assist the Principal Investigator in the Department of Political Science. The incumbent will independently and/or with colleagues conduct research following the policies and procedures of Stony Brook University. The incumbent will assist the Principal Investigator with the supervision and management of the lab. The Department of Political Science seeks a one-year Senior Researcher with expertise in the area of political psychology for the 2022-2023 academic year. The Senior Postdoctoral Associate will assist the faculty in the department in their research, teaching, and service missions. The incumbent will conduct research following the policies and procedures of Stony Brook University.
Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at University of Auckland
We are inviting applications for a lectureship in Psychology (equivalent to tenure-track Assistant Professor) from people who can contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, as well as research supervision, in Social Psychology at the University of Auckland. Appointees should have a PhD in Psychology or a related discipline and a strong record of publishing research in Social Psychology. We are particularly interested in applicants whose research area can connect with and extend existing research and teaching strengths in Social Psychology.
Five Permanent Lecturers, Senior lecturers, or Readers (Assistant/Associate Professors), University of Essex, UK
The Department of Psychology at the University of Essex (UK) is seeking to recruit up to five permanent lecturers, senior lecturers, or readers (assistant/associate professors) across all areas of psychology. We are a large and vibrant Psychology Department guided by our University’s founding principles of breaking new ground, of challenging existing expectations, and of making a meaningful difference in the world. To achieve these goals, we organise our research and our teaching under the broader theme of ‘Understanding Our Place In The World.’
Three Assistant Professor Positions in Social, Health and Organisational Psychology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
The Psychology Department at Utrecht University has three job openings for Assistant Professors in the domains of social, health and organisational Psychology. The positions are embedded within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and are a combination of teaching (60%) and research (40%).
We are looking for three assistant professors who can teach and do research in the domains relevant to the Social, Health and Organisational Psychology group. The teaching is implemented in the Bachelor's Psychology, the one-year Master's Social, Health and Organizational Psychology, the Research Master's Social and Health Psychology; and in the Bachelor's and Research Master's Artificial Intelligence (AI). The department also teaches courses at University College Utrecht and provides Teaching for Professionals. Teaching includes (large-scale) lectures, (small-scale) instruction meetings, and (individual) internships and thesis supervision, along with more general tasks of coordination and administration.
Call for Submissions: Inclusive Citizenship as Belongings, Practices and Acts, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, September 29th – October 1st, 2022
The Leibniz Research Center for Inclusive Citizenship and the European Consortium for Political Research’s Standing Group on Citizenship are calling for paper and poster proposals for their joint international conference on the theme "Inclusive Citizenship as Belongings, Practices and Acts". The goal of the conference is to examine various aspects of inclusion and citizenship as belongings, practices, and acts.
The Primals Research Student Awards is a funding opportunity for PhD/post-doc students seeking up to $20,000 in research funds to study primal world beliefs, such as the beliefs the world is dangerous or interesting.
10th Warsaw Seminar in Intergroup Relations, University of Warsaw, Poland, July 2-3rd, 2022
We invite submissions to the 10th Warsaw Seminar in Intergroup Relations (formerly known as the Tajfel Seminar) that will take place July 2-3rd, 2022. This year, the conference centers on broadly defined political ideology – its causes, shades, and consequences.
The aim of the 10th Warsaw Seminar in Intergroup Relations is to address these and many other questions as well as connect scholars interested in political ideology and political divides. Next to the talks delivered by the keynote speakers - Prof. Dr. Nicole Tausch (University of St Andrews) and Prof. Dr. Theofilos Gkinopoulos (University of Crete) – the conference will involve regular paper sessions (20-minute talks) and a poster session. We encourage contributions from junior and senior scholars working in different subfields of social psychology and related disciplines.
Call for Papers: The Loneliness Pandemic? Special Edition of The Journal of Psychosocial Studies
This call is for papers that question, problematise, broaden and enrich the scope of loneliness study, that bring a psychosocial sensibility to bear on loneliness– as neither simply a state of mind, nor only a function of social conditions. We seek abstracts, in the first instance, for this special edition. Both empirical and theoretical papers are welcome, and as well as psychosocial contributions we encourage submissions from fields such as the medical humanities; arts and cultural studies; public sociology; phenomenology.
Call for Papers: 33rd Meeting of the German Peace Psychology Forum, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
The Forum Friedenspsychologie (Peace Psychology Forum) of the Philipps University in Marburg invites interested scholars as well as practitioners to submit their papers for the 33rd Meeting of the Forum.
The meeting takes place in person, on 23-24 September 2022, in Marburg. This year’s theme is “Don’t burn your bridges: dealing with societal divides.”
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