Science Leadership Conference

Each year, the Board of Scientific Affairs (BSA) and the Science Directorate host the APA Science Leadership Conference (SciLC). The SciLC provides a venue for psychology's scientific leadership to gather, develop a shared agenda and plan for the future of scientific psychology.

Topics in that past include:

• Act Locally: Promoting Psychological Science in Our Academic Institutions and Local Communities (2012)

• Call to Advocacy: Psychological Science and Substance Abuse (2011)

• Strengthening Our Science: Enhancing the Status of Psychology as a STEM Discipline (2010)

• Enhancing the Nation's Health Through Psychological Science (2009)

• Designing the Future: Innovations in Knowledge Dissemination for Psychological Science (2008)

• Adventures in Advocacy: Training the Civic Scientist (2007)

• Supporting & Advancing the Careers of Scientists (2006)

• The Public Face of Psychological Science (2005)