Leading a Psychology Department Through Uncharted Waters
Lead from Anywhere
May 2023
The world has changed dramatically over the past few years, and so has higher education. As psychology leaders, we continue to face unprecedented challenges that impact every aspect of the way we do business—research, curriculum development, pedagogy, staffing, faculty recruitment and retention, and finances.
To meet these challenges, psychology leaders must be informed, flexible, entrepreneurial, and above all, innovative. And as role models for the next generation of leaders, we need to be self-aware, credible, authentic, and focused on relationship building and empowering others. Few of us are taught these skills as graduate students and postdocs, let alone as early career faculty.
During this presentation, Lee Ryan, PhD, discusses her journey of self-discovery on the path to becoming an effective leader and shares ideas about how to prepare yourself (and others) to lead psychology through the next decade.
This program does not offer CE credit.
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Speaker
Lee Ryan, PhD
Professor, psychology, and neurology head at the University of Arizona, Lee Ryan received her PhD in cognitive and clinical psychology at the University of British Columbia in 1992 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. Ryan has been the head of the psychology department since 2015, and is a professor in the departments of psychology, neurology, and neurosciences. She is also the associate director of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute at the University of Arizona. Ryan’s research focuses on understanding the brain mechanisms responsible for memory, how memory changes across the adult lifespan, and how those changes relate to brain structure and function. She is particularly interested in understanding the factors that lead to individual differences in age-related cognitive function, including genetics, cardiovascular health, diet, and exercise.
Host
Sara Weiner
Industrial and organizational psychologist and a member of APA Division 14, Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP).
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