Event Promotes Collaboration to Tackle International Issues Facing Psychology
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., is bringing global leaders in psychology
together through the Wiley
Psychology Roundtable series to address the international
challenges facing the discipline. The latest exclusive event, entitled Global
Voices in Psychology, took place at the 2012 International Congress
of Psychology in Cape Town, South Africa.
The roundtable events provide a forum for discussion with leaders of
some of the world’s most influential psychological organizations and
present an opportunity for collaboration between psychological
associations.
Executive officers and Presidents from national and international
societies were in attendance, including, Kan Zhang from the Institute of
Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, Oscar Barbarin from the Society
for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Peter Banister from the
British Psychological Society (BPS), Takao Sato from the Japanese
Psychological Association (JPA), Simon Crowe from the Australian
Psychological Society and Maria Caridad Tarroja from the Psychological
Association of the Philippines (PAP).
The event addressed some of the challenges facing the international
psychological community, such as capacity building, the mobility of
psychologists between countries and the difficulties of retaining highly
qualified students, otherwise known as ‘brain drain’.
Wiley will continue these discussions at future roundtable events and
will look for new ways to support psychological societies and increase
international collaboration.
Professor Simon Crowe, President of the Australian Psychological Society
said of the roundtable: “[It is] great to meet up with colleagues across
the globe, to share knowledge and experience about the challenges facing
psychology - a truly unique forum.”
Professor Arvind Sinha, Chairman and Past President of the National
Academy of Psychology, India added, “The roundtable meeting gives us
focus on what psychology can do in the next five years in the service of
humanity.”
With a psychology portfolio including the journals of the Australian
Psychological Society, British
Psychological Society and theSociety
for Research in Child Development, Wiley is the largest
international society publisher in psychology.
“We are increasing the number of partnerships we have with societies
around the world through our extensive publishing program,” said Philip
Carpenter, Vice President, Social Science and Humanities, Wiley. “This
was the third in our series of Wiley Psychology Roundtable events
and it cements our commitment to developing relationships across this
important discipline and understanding the challenges faced by the
international psychological community.”
The Wiley Psychology Roundtable series brings together key
thinkers across psychology to focus on new, timely or longstanding
issues in this vital field of research. For further information on this
series, please visit the Wiley Psychology Roundtable series
website here.
