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Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes International Conference on Aging 2010/11 – Call For Proposal Deadline: November 30, 2009

The Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation has now opened the opportunity to submit a scientific conference proposal on the theme of aging, covering the disciplines central to Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes’ work (psychology, gerontology, and behavioral sciences).

The successful applicant (university, research institution) will receive a lump sum of about $50,000 (35,000 EURO) to be spent on the conference according to the NSF conference grant policy. Preference will be given to applicants whose team composition and/ or conference program includes both German and US based scholars. The organizers will be fully responsible for all conference matters.

The submission of the conference proposal (conference to be held in 2010 or 2011) should entail:

• a brief description of the goal of the conference (max. 2 pp.),
• session outlines,
• a suggestion of (a) key speaker(s), and
• a summarized budgetary and spending plan for the awarded sum.

The key organizers should indicate previous experience with organizing conferences and enclose a brief CV.

The proposals will be evaluated by the board of the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation: Ursula M. Staudinger, Boris B. Baltes, Christine Windbichler, and Ulman Lindenberger.

Electronic submissions, to baltesfoundation@jacobs-university.de, are due no later than November 30. The successful applicant will be notified by January 15, 2010.

For additional information contact the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation at baltesfoundation@jacobs-university.de or visit www.baltes-foundation.de.

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme Seeks Students to Pursue Studies in Hong Kong – Deadline: December 1, 2009

The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme is launched by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong. The Fellowship Scheme aims to attract the outstanding students in the world (including those from Hong Kong and Mainland China) to pursue their PhD degree programs in Hong Kong.

The Fellowship will provide an annual stipend of HK$240,000 (approximately US$30,000) and a conference and research-related travel allowance of HK$10,000 (approximately US$1,300) per year for a maximum period of three years. 135 PhD Fellowships will be awarded for the 2010 / 2011 academic year.

Website: http://www.rgc.edu.hk/hkphd/

The application deadline is December 1, 2009. Please help to promote the scheme and encourage students to apply to our Psychology Program.

2010-2011 Educational Testing Service (ETS) Fellowship and Internship Programs in Research & Development – Deadlines: December 1, 2009 & February 1, 2010

These programs are designed to promote quality and distinction in educational measurement and related fields. They are also meant to encourage original and significant research for scholars and graduate students. The goal of the ETS R&D Fellowship and Internship programs is to provide opportunities for talented scholars and students from diverse backgrounds — especially traditionally underrepresented groups such as African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, and American Indians — to carry out research under the mentorship of ETS senior research scientists and psychometricians. These programs encourage research in areas such as:

• Measurement Theory
• Validity
• Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
• Cognitive Psychology
• Learning Theory
• Linguistics
• Speech Recognition and Processing
• Teaching and Classroom Research
• Statistics
• International Large Scale Assessments

The ETS Fellowship and Internship programs seek applicants who either hold a doctoral degree or who are enrolled in a doctoral program in one of the above fields and who are interested in research opportunities. I would like your help in getting this information out to your colleagues and your very best graduate students and alumni. I encourage you and your colleagues to identify strong candidates and ask them to apply.

ETS is seeking graduate students for the summer internship program in research. The program focuses on major research activities that will occur in 2010. Interns participate in areas that reflect the growing role of educational measurement and its underlying theory and technologies. Selected interns conduct research under the guidance of ETS mentors in Princeton, NJ. Graduate students who are currently enrolled in a full-time doctoral program in one of the areas listed above and who have completed a minimum of two years of coursework toward their PhD or EdD prior to the program start date are eligible to apply.

The Harold Gulliksen psychometric research program seeks graduate students who have completed their doctoral coursework and are at the dissertation stage of their program working on a dissertation related to statistics, psychometrics, educational/psychological measurement or quantitative methods. Selected fellows study at their universities and carry out research under the supervision of an academic mentor and in consultation with an ETS scientist. The goal of this program is to increase the number of well-trained scientists in educational measurement, psychometrics, and statistics.

The postdoctoral fellowship programs seek individuals who hold a doctorate in one of the disciplines listed above. These programs provide talented scholars an opportunity to carry out independent research under the mentorship of ETS senior researchers. The programs are designed to promote excellence and to encourage original and significant research for early-career and seasoned scholars. ETS’s Sylvia Taylor Johnson Minority Fellowship in Educational Measurement is among the group of postdoctoral fellowship programs. Applicants interested in the Sylvia Taylor Johnson fellowship must have received their doctorate within the past 10 years.

Please take a moment to consider which qualified individuals you believe would benefit from this opportunity and help ETS achieve the program's goal. Attached is a general announcement for the programs for you to share or post at your institution.

The application process will open on November 1, 2009. At that time, information and application instructions will be posted on the ETS Web site at http://www.ets.org/research/fellowships.html. The deadline for applying for the summer internship and postdoctoral fellowship programs is February 1, 2010. The deadlines for applying for the Harold Gulliksen program are December 1, 2009 for the preliminary nomination materials and February 1, 2010 for the final application materials.

If you have any questions about the programs, please write to internfellowships@ets.org.

Thank you in advance for your assistance and support of these programs.

Congratulations to Professor Martin Seligman Winner of the Wiley Prize in Psychology

Download articles written by Martin Seligman FREE until the end of 2009

The inaugural Wiley Prize in Psychology was awarded yesterday to Professor Martin Seligman, at the British Academy’s annual ceremony of prizes and medals. Each year the Academy celebrates outstanding achievements in social sciences and humanities on the recommendations of specialist committees.

The Academy's new Wiley Prize in Psychology, worth £5,000, to be awarded annually, recognizes excellence in research in psychology - alternately rewarding lifetime achievement by an outstanding international scholar and promising early career work by a UK-based psychologist.
One of the world’s leading pioneers of modern psychology, Professor Seligman is currently Albert A Fox Leadership Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Director of the University’s Positive Psychology Center.

Click here for more information about the prize

Call for Nominations: International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation – Deadline: January 31, 2010

The Publications and Communications (P&C) Board of the American Psychological Association and Division 52 (International Psychology) of the APA have opened nominations for the editorship of International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, for the years 2011–2016. The editor search committee is co-chaired by Lynn Collins, PhD, and Peter Ornstein, PhD.

International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, to begin publishing in 2011, is committed to publishing conceptual models, investigative methodologies, and intervention strategies to help understand, study, and influence the world’s major mental health problems. The journal will promote psychological science and practice that is contextually informed, culturally inclusive and serves the public interest. Recognizing that mental health problems are imbedded in economic, environmental, political, and social contexts, International Perspectives in Psychology is a multidisciplinary title that will incorporate empirical findings from education, medicine, public health, applied and basic psychology, sociology and other related disciplines.

Included in the global concerns that interest the journal are inter-group conflict, societal transformations and national development, threats to the natural environment and recovery from national disasters, mental health care delivery and capacity buildings, and the struggles and physical and mental health needs of disempowered groups.

Editorial candidates should be available to start receiving manuscripts in July 2010 to prepare for issues published in 2011. Please note that the P&C Board encourages participation by members of underrepresented groups in the publication process and would particularly welcome such nominees. Self-nominations are also encouraged.

Candidates should be nominated by accessing APA’s EditorQuest site on the Web. Using your Web browser, go to http://editorquest.apa.org. On the Home menu on the left, find “Guests.” Next, click on the link “Submit a Nomination,” enter your nominee’s information, and click “Submit.”

Prepared statements of one page or less in support of a nominee can also be submitted by e-mail to Molly Douglas-Fujimoto, Managing Director, Education Publishing Foundation, at mdouglas-fujimoto@apa.org.

Deadline for accepting nominations is January 31, 2010, when reviews will begin.

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Invites a US Scholar to Teach in its Clinical Psychology Masters Program Through the Fulbright Program for 2010.

CIRP is seeking psychologists with experience with international study abroad programs, international teaching, international service or other international opportunities to identify themselves for a convention roundtable on international opportunities in psychology.

Please direct any questions to: Mary Bullock, PhD, Office of International Affairs.

University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Invites a US Scholar to Teach in its Clinical Psychology Masters Program Through the Fulbright Program for 2010.

The Faculty of Graduate Studies (FGS) of the University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, would like to invite a US Scholar to teach in its Clinical Psychology Masters program through the Fulbright scholar scheme. This would be for the academic year 2010. The University of Colombo, a metropolitan university, is situated in the heart of Colombo. Hence, it provides easy access to a wide range of cultural, entertainment and business activities.

The University has seven Faculties, 41 Departments, a Campus, a School, six Institutes and several Centres and Units. Many undergraduate and post graduate programs are offered by the University. The Masters in Clinical Psychology program of the FGS was established in 2008 and is the first-ever post graduate course in Clinical Psychology in the country. Sri Lanka has only a handful of Clinical Psychologists and this program is envisaged to fulfil a great need in providing trained mental health clinicians for the country.

The FGS of the University of Colombo would consider it a privilege to welcome and host a Fulbright Scholar to teach in its Clinical Psychology program. Please contact Ms. Chandrika Ismail, Senior Academic in Clinical Psychology of the University of Colombo, for further details.

Were You in the Peace Corps? Please Send us Your Contact Information!

The Office of International Affairs is developing a contact list of psychologists who have served in the Peace Corps for possible convention programming in 2010. If you served in the Peace Corps (either before or after you became a psychologist!) please send an email with the subject line "Peace Corps" to Merry Bullock.

APA Division 52 Committee Invites Teachers to Take a Survey on Internationalizing the Psychology Curriculum

The Curriculum and Training Committee of the International Psychology Division (52), American Psychological Association, invites you to complete a survey on internationalizing the psychology curriculum. We are interested in learning how many teachers of psychology include international perspectives in their courses and how they do so. Please complete the survey even if you do not include international perspectives in your courses.

The survey should take only a few minutes. Your responses will be held confidential and used primarily for the purposes of this survey. We greatly appreciate your willingness to participate.

Click this link to begin to take the survey:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=c2UCOBjCI5RC1jjk2VWDnQ_3d_3d

If you have questions, please contact Gloria Grenwald.

The 27th International Congress of Applied Psychology: Melbourne, Australia. July 11-16, 2010. Call for papers deadline December 1, 2009.

See www.icap2010.com for more information.

JOIN the Roster of Members with Experience Outside the US (ROMEO)

APA’s Committee on International Relations is seeking nominations for a roster of psychologists with international expertise outside the US. Information in the roster (Roster of Members with Expertise Outside the US – ROMEO) will be used to nominate colleagues as speakers, reviewers, and contacts for substantive issues from an international perspective. The roster will also cross-reference psychologists by area of expertise and geographical area.

• Please send nominations to: APA Office of International Affairs
• The Title of the Email should say “ROMEO”
• The text of the email should include the following:
  • Name
  • Contact Information (Institution, address)
  • Contact Email
  • Contact Phone/Fax
  • Areas of substantive expertise: (e.g., areas of  research/practice)
  • Geographical Areas about which you are knowledgeable/have experience
  • A list of up to 10 publications
  • ATTACH to the email your vitae

Please direct any questions to: Mary Bullock, PhD, Office of International Affairs.

NGO Abroad is Looking for Volunteers for Sierra Leone

Need volunteers to work in Sierra Leone to help children orphaned by war to transition out of orphanages to more permanent family homes.

Qualifications: 1. Previous experience in Africa preferred. 2. Experience working with children & youth 3. Experience with transitioning from residential care or families would be very helpful 4. Credential in Social Work or Psychology are helpful but not required if you have the other qualifications.

Interested? Please read NGOabroad website at http://www.ngoabroad.com and answer the Questionnaire then embed the Questionnaire and CV in an email to: NGO Abroad

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