E-News June 2023
Update from Prof. Lori Foster, IAAP President
IAAP Partners with Essentiam Strategy
Dear IAAP Members,
Earlier in the year I announced IAAP’s plan to embark on strategic planning in 2023. Over the past months, President-Elect Pedro Neves and I have been working to put the foundation in place for IAAP’s strategic planning process by hiring a strategic planning consultant. With the assistance of our Operations Center, we distributed a request for proposals to 30 entities across three continents to identify a company to help lead IAAP through strategic planning. We received four proposals, which were closely reviewed. From there, we shortlisted and interviewed two candidates.
After careful consideration, we decided to partner with Essentiam Strategy, who we have begun working with. Essentiam has significant experience not only with membership-based organizations, but also with international groups, and psychology groups specifically. Essentiam led the last strategic planning process for the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP), and the Principal is a Director on the board of the International Association for Strategy Professionals.
Essentiam has been busy reviewing a range of publicly available documents pertaining to IAAP’s mission, history, governance, and activities. More interactive aspects of the process will kick off later this month and next. For example, we will utilize some of our Board of Directors meeting in Brighton, UK in July for a visioning exercise. Interviews, focus groups, and workshops are also being planned. And in September, we will be sending out a member survey so each and every member of IAAP has the opportunity to provide feedback on your experiences as a member and your hopes for the future of the organization. The aim is a highly collaborative process, and a complete strategic plan in place in early 2024.
If you volunteered to help with this process, Pedro and I will be reaching out to you in June and July to involve you. Thank you for your willingness to contribute to the future of IAAP.
You can expect to continue to receive updates as we move forward. I look forward to sharing the completed plan with you all in early 2024, and being in touch about this along the way.
APAW
Your latest issue of Applied Psychology Around the World is here! Volume 5, Issue 3: Psychology in China: State of the Art.
"This second issue of Volume 5 of Applied Psychology Around the World is dedicated to a series of papers around the broad topic of Psychology in China: State of the Art. It will be introduced by A Message from the President of IAAP, Lori Foster, followed by a series of 23 articles."
- Christine Roland-Lévy,
IAAP Past President and APAW Editor
European Congress of Psychology
Planning to attend the European Congress of Psychology (ECP) this July in Brighton, UK? Stop by and say hello at the IAAP booth! Learn More>
SAVE THE DATE: ICAP 2026 in Florence
You're invited to Florence Italy for the 31st International Congress of Applied Psychology (ICAP). Our congress will take place from 20-26 July, 2026. It promises to offer new and exciting opportunities to learn, exchange ideas, reconnect with colleagues, meet new people from around the globe, and work together to advance the science and practice of applied psychology. Learn More>
DIVISION NEWS
Division 8: Health Psychology
Here is the latest in Division 8 News
Are you a member of IAAP Division 8 (Health Psychology) and attending EHPS 2023? If so, we invite you to join the jury for the Best Applied Health Psychology Research Presentation award. This award is an initiative of IAAP Division 8 to recognize the importance of applied health psychology and will be awarded during the closing ceremony of EHPS 2023. As a jury member, you will rate the presentations in one or several oral sessions, using a standardized form. You may also be asked to contribute to ranking the presentations. Jury membership should not take much of your time in addition to attending the session(s). We aim to allocate jurors to sessions in their area of interest and acting as a juror provides an opportunity to get to know division members and build our community. Please contact John de Wit, the division’s president-elect, at j.dewit@uu.nl if you want to join the IAAP Division 8 Best Applied Health Psychology Research Presentation Award jury.
Division 13: Traffic and Transportation Psychology
The next HUMANIST Conference will be held in Berlin, Germany, on 21 & 22 September 2023 and is entitled: Accelerating the Transformation Towards Sustainable Mobility by Human-Centered Design.
The conference will be hosted by DLR (Germany).
Division 17: Professional Practice
Click here to view Division 17's June newsletter.
NEWS FROM THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF PSYCHOLOGISTS
The International Council of Psychologists welcomes you to the following webinars:
- Dr. Anitha Menon – 'To say or not to say’- a key determinant in addressing Gender-Based Violence
June 22, 2023 - 10 am EDT / 4 pm CEST /
- Dr. Brigitte Khoury & Dr. Julie Hakim-Larson – Human Rights and Forced Migration – Psychological Contributions
June 26, 2023 - 10 am EDT / 4 pm CEST /
OTHER NEWS
9th International Congress of Clinical and Health Psychology in Children and Adolescents
Date: November 22nd - November 24th, 2023
Location: Valencia, Spain
Website: https://www.aitanacongress.com/2023/en/home/
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