To further promote and advance behavioural development research ISSBD is proud to have sponsored over 20 regional workshops, to date, across the world. Cooper and Verma’s historical overview of ISSBD regional workshops is available to read, here.
ISSBD Regional Workshop, Gramado, Brazil, 2007
Guidelines for Workshop Proposals
ISSBD sponsors regional workshops on a regular basis. Typically, these are proposed to introduce scholars to new methods, updates of substantive areas of research, and reviews of given topics. Participants include early career scholars from developing and under-developed countries. Participants are drawn from the majority world and other regions of the globe (Western Europe, North America). In such cases, the goal is to introduce early career scholars from different regions to promote equity, unity and collaboration.
Workshops typically are between 3-6 days in length. Senior researchers usually deliver formal addresses and lead discussion groups. Early career scholars may present posters or short papers on topics related to the Workshop theme. The venue for proposed Workshops varies. A Workshop immediately precedes or follows the Biennial Meetings of ISSBD. The workshop proposal is submitted to the President minimum six months before the scheduled date.
Workshops are also held, on a regular basis, in Africa, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and North America.
ISSBD has set a budget to support its Workshop series. Additional support should be generated by writing proposals to local sources (e.g., institutional support), local governments, and to supportive Foundations. ISSBD will support up to three Workshops per year, although two is preferable.
About six months after the regional workshop, ISSBD expects the organizers to submit a report on the workshop, which should include a budget expenditure report.
Workshop Proposal Template:
Title
Names of Organizers
Theoretical background
Objectives
Participants: Regional representation of early career scholars
Resource persons
Workshop venue
Local organizing committee
Program Advisory committee
Workshop structure: number of days, format, keynote addresses, poster presentations/oral presentations by early career scholars, activity sessions, panel discussions.
Program details for each day: names of keynote speakers who have accepted, session details, workshop evaluation plans
Please describe the near- and longer-term outcomes and impacts of the planned workshop.
Which activities are planned to enhance learning of new content, updating the knowledge base, and forming new research collaborations?
What is the rationale for inviting participants relative to these near- and longer-term expectations?
Budget: Travel, boarding and lodging, AV Aids, equipment rentals, stationery, and other contingency expenses.
Historical Overview of ISSBD Workshops
Africa
1992Cameroon, Yaounde – Organizer: Bame Nsamenang
1994Ivory Coast, Abidjan – Organizers: Jean Tano, Tape Goze
1996Zambia, Lusaka – Organizers: Robert Serpell, Gertrude Mwape
2001Peru, Lima – Organizers: Brett Laursen, Margarita Azmitia, Mary Louise Claux
2007Brazil, Gramado – Organizers: Brett Laursen, William M. Bukowski, Silvia Koller
North America
1991USA, Michigan – Organizer: Harold W. Stevenson
1991USA, Pennsylvania – Organizer: Richard Lerner
1991USA, Washington, DC – Organizers: Patricia M. Greenfield, Rodney Cocking
Regional Workshop, Nairobi, Kenya, 2015.
1994 Beijing workshop, participants discussing a seminar.9th ISSBD Africa Regional Workshop, 2011.
Graduate Student Summer Institute held in July, 1987 at the Academia Sinica in Beijing. The faculty is pictured in the second row, left to right, Harold Stevenson; unknown; Kees van Lieshout; Bill Hartup; Warner Schaie; Franz Weinert; Sandra Scarr; Robert Seigler; Paul Baltes; and Liu Fan.
