Preconference & Special Events for 2012
All Events will be in the Vancouver Convention Centre, East, unless otherwise noted.
THURSDAY, March 8, 2012
FRIDAY, March 9, 2012
SATURDAY, March 10, 2012
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012
Emerging Scholars Social Event
6:00pm - 7:00pm, meet in Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown lobby
Start the Biennial Meeting off right by joining the Emerging Scholars of SRA for a social event! This is an informal opportunity to learn about what events and resources are available to you during the Biennial Meeting. It also provides you with an opportunity to meet other students and new professionals. Meet Laura Wray-Lake and Carolyn Spellings in the lobby of the Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown between 6:00pm and 7:00pm and transition to an off-site location for a casual, social evening.
Peer Relations Preconference
11:30am - 7:00pm, Marriott Vancouver Pinnacle Downtown
http://srapeerspreconference.org
In this year’s peer relations preconference, we provide you a buffet of different research frameworks, designs, and methods that will help you to plan and realize your study, analyze your data, and interpret your findings. The four keynote speakers will provide insights into genetics, experimental studies, physiological measurements, and intervention research, and how each of these areas have contributed and could potentially contribute to understanding adolescents’ peer relations. During parallel teaching sessions, you will have the opportunity to learn about recent advances in the developmental research methods. Last but not least, you can foster your own peer relations and become a member of new networks!
Organizers: Christina Salmivalli (University of Turku, Finland) and
René Veenstra (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
Romantic Relationships Preconference
1:30pm - 5:30pm, East Meeting Room 9
This event aims to bring together researchers interested in adolescent romantic relationships. Similar to previous romantic relationship preconference meetings, we will have a diverse program including junior scholar perspectives on future directions, speed-dating with senior scholars, and break-out sessions on innovative methods. The scientific portion of the program will be followed by a social get-together.
Contact: Manfred van Dulmen (mvandul@kent.edu).
Preconference Meeting of the Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF)
5:30pm - 8:30pm, East Meeting Room 11
The Society for Research on Identity Formation (SRIF) will meet to exchange theoretical and research ideas on the role of identity in psychosocial development. The session will begin with a roundtable exchange describing the current activities of individuals attending the session. This will be followed by brief reports by SRIF officers on organizational acitivites, including planning for the 2013 SRIF Conference. The session will conclude with poster presentations. The session is open to anyone interested in identity. A fee of $10 for students and $20 for professionals will be collected. For further information about SRIF and this preconference meeting, please email us at srif@fiu.edu or contact either of the individuals listed below:
Andrea White, SRIF Program Chair Janet Gebelt, SRIF Secretary
whiteas@kenyon.edu jgebelt@westfield.ma.edu
THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012
Government and Foundation Poster Group: Funding Opportunities With US Government Agencies and Foundations
Thursday, 10:00 am – Saturday, 5:00 pm, Exhibit Hall B
Remains on display: Thursday, 10:00 am – Saturday, 5:00 pm.
Session on Friday, 12:15 pm – 1:45 pm, to meet with agency and foundation representatives at their posters.
- G1 Funding Opportunities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Sarah Bacon - G2 Competitive Grant Programs available through the National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Suzanne Le Menestrel - G3 Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs: Working Together to Improve Youth Outcomes
Sarah Oberlander - G4 Adolescent Developmental and Translational Research at the National Institute of Mental Health
Julia Zehr, LeShawndra Price - G5 Funding Opportunities at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Valerie Maholmes - G6 Research on Adolescent Development at the National Institute on Drug Abuse
Cheryl Boyce, Aria Davis Crump, Kathy Etz - G7 Alcohol Abuse and Adolescent Brain Development: Research Funding Opportunities at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Mariela Shirley - G8 Jacobs Foundation - Research and Innovation for Children and Youth Simon Sommer, Gelgia Fetz
- G9 Spencer Foundation Funding Opportunities
Susan Dauber - G10 William T. Grant Funding Interests and Grant Programs
Kimberly DuMont
Coffee and Conversation I
12:45pm - 1:45pm, Emerging Scholars Lounge, East Meeting Room 16
Senior scholars will offer brief presentations on professional development topics followed by time for questions and informal conversations with emerging scholars. Get support, advice, and resources and share your own experiences. There's an opportunity to win a free one-year SRA membership.
Speakers & Topics:
- Stephen T. Russell (University of Arizona): Applied and Policy Research
- Vonnie McLoyd (University of Michigan): Work-Life Balance
- Eva Lefkowitz (Pennsylvania State University): Mentoring Undergraduate and Graduate Students
- Jeff Cookston (San Francisco State University): A Day in the Life of an Assistant Professor
Emerging Scholars Community Meeting
2:00pm - 3:00pm, Emerging Scholars Lounge, East Meeting Room 16
All student and new professional attendees are invited to join the Emerging Scholar Representatives for afternoon snacks and conversation. This event is designed both to be an open forum for discussion about the needs and experiences of emerging scholars in SRA. Emerging Scholar Committee members will share information about new initiatives to gather feedback from attendees on key issues. Attend this meeting and have a chance to win a free one-year SRA membership!
Welcome & Awards Ceremony & Global Reception
5:30pm - 7:45pm, Exhibit Hall A
All attendees are invited to attend this event! Honor SRA 2012 Award recipients and enjoy refreshments while mingling with other attendees. Reconnect with old friends and former colleagues. You may even meet someone new from another university or country who shares your research interests. Regardless of the reason, be there! Cash bars will be available.
A special performance by The Coastal Sound Youth Choir, Carrie Tennant, director, George Chung, accompanist, is scheduled during this event. The Coastal Sound Youth Choir is fast becoming well known across British Columbia for their creative and unique approach to choral music. Using creative staging, movement, and multimedia, the Coastal Sound Youth Choir crafts performance
s that have been described as “soul-elevating,” “truly imaginative,” and “vibrating with life.” Extremely enthusiastic and very energetic, this close-knit group of teenagers and young adults maintains a busy performance schedule. Along with yearly retreats and concert tours, the choir also enjoys spending social time together at informal gatherings and events. In 2010 and 2011, the Coastal Sound Youth Choir shared the stage with renowned vocal groups The Nylons, musica intima, The Shirleys and The Good Noise Gospel Choir, and recorded a song with Nikki Yanofsky. This past spring, the choir was selected as a finalist in the National Competition for Amateur Choirs, and chosen as the “most outstanding choir” at the BC Festival of the Performing Arts. Last July, the youth choir co-hosted the Coastal Sound International Choral Festival, where hundreds of singers came together from around the world for a week of performance and sharing.
SRCD Asian Caucus Speed-Mentoring Hour
7:00pm - 8:00pm, East Meeting Room 4
The Steering Committee of the SRCD Asian Caucus invites you to a Speed-Mentoring Hour at the 2012 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence in Vancouver, Canada. We want to provide students, postdocs, junior faculty, and more senior faculty the opportunity to mingle and network with other members of the Asian Caucus to enhance a sense of community within our organization. We hope Asian Caucus members use this opportunity to build ties with one another that will be conducive to their professional development and scholarship.
Please RSVP and direct your questions to Daniel Choe (danieewo@umich.edu). Thank you for your continuing support. We look forward to meeting you in Vancouver!
FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 2012
Meet the Scientist Lunch
12:15pm - 1:45pm, Ballroom Salons BC, Renaissance Vancouver Harbourside Hotel
This ticketed event is an SRA Biennial Meeting tradition that provides a forum for students to interact with senior scholars who have central roles in the field of adolescent development. Attendance is limited! Students may sign up to sit at a specified table when they register for the meeting. This year's scientists include:
- Jeffrey Jensen Arnett (Department of Psychology, Clark University)
- William M. Bukowski (Department of Psychology, Concordia University of Montreal)
- Laurie Chassin (Department of Psychology, Arizona State University)
- Xinyin Chen (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania)
- Connie Flanagan (School of Human Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Nancy Guerra (Clinical/Developmental Psychology, University of Delaware)
- Cigdem Kagitcibasi (Psychology, Koc University, Turkey)
- Silvia Koller (Center for Psychological Studies on At-Risk Children, Youth and Families, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
- Todd Little (Psychology and Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis, University of Kansas)
- Carol Martin (Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University)
- Raija-Leena Punamäki (2012 SRA International Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Tampere, Finland)
- Marcela Raffaelli (Human and Community Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Ruby Takanishi (President, Foundation for Child Development)
- Lauree Tilton-Weaver (Center for Developmental Research, Örebro University, Sweden)
Meet with Federal Agency and Foundation Representatives
12:15pm - 1:45pm, Exhibit Hall B, Poster Group G1-G10
Three foundations and seven US agencies will have posters on display throughout the Biennial Meeting. During this session, representatives from these foundations and US Federal agencies will be available for questions and discussions.
SRA Presidential Address: Is Growing Up in the United States Good for Boys' Health?
5:30pm - 6:30pm, Exhibit Hall A
Past-President, Reed Larson, will introduce this year's Presidential Address presented by Niobe Way (Department of Applied Psychology, New York University). Dr. Way's longitudinal research over the past 20 years reveals the intense intimacy among teenage boys, especially during early and middle adolescence. Yet as boys grow older, they become distrustful, lose their friendships, and feel isolated and alone, a loss that is evident at the same time in development that the suicide rate for boys rises dramatically. Come and learn more...
SRA Presidential Reception: 6:30pm - 8:00pm, Exhibit Hall A
All attendees are encouraged to attend this social event! Connect with old and new friends and colleagues as you enjoy refreshments. Cash bars will be available.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012
Coffee and Conversation II
2:00pm - 3:00pm, Emerging Scholars Lounge, East Meeting Room 16
Senior scholars will offer brief presentations on professional development topics followed by time for questions and informal conversations with emerging scholars. Get support, advice, and resources and share your own experiences. There's an opportunity to win a free one-year SRA membership.
Speakers & Topics:
- Jessie Wong (Arizona State University)
- Robert Crosnoe (University of Texas-Austin): How to Network at a Conference
- Moin Syed (University of Minnesota): Writing a CV/Resume and Navigating the Job Market
- Raija-Leena Punamäki University of Tempere, Finlind): Cross-Cultural Research
