Faculty Position Search - University of Cincinnati Social/Community Psychology

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Please see the position announcement below for a Social/Community Psychologist at the University of Cincinnati

Positions: Assistant Professor in Social/Community Psychology
Deadline:  Review of applications begins October 15, 2017

 Assistant Professor

Social / Community Psychology

A&S Department of Psychology

UNIVERSITY of CINCINNATI

The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Cincinnati is currently accepting applications for an Assistant Professor position. The successful candidate will teach in our BA in Psychology, BA in Organizational Leadership (Nonprofit Track), and MA in Organizational and Community Psychology programs starting in August 2018. 

 Minimum Qualifications:  Ph.D. in Psychology (e.g., I/O, Community, or Social) or a related field (e.g., Leadership, Public Administration, Occupational Health and Psychology). A successful candidate must have a publication record consistent with their expertise and experience, have a clear potential to secure external funding, and will demonstrate a basis for collaboration with our faculty whose applied work focuses in the areas of organizational and community-based leadership, diversity science, vulnerable populations, broadening participation, and community-based participatory research.  A record of publication and external funding in Social or Community Psychology is preferred.

 The normal teaching load for this position is two courses per semester. Some duties associated with administration of our BA and MA programs may also be assigned.

We are especially interested in qualified candidates who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community and we hope to attract applicants who have experience in promoting the success of students from diverse backgrounds. The University of Cincinnati values diverse perspectives and we strongly encourage women, racial/ethnic/gender minorities, persons with disabilities, and veterans to apply. UC is responsive to the needs of dual career couples and is dedicated to work-life integration.

Interested applicants must apply online via our website located at https://jobs.uc.edu by submitting 1) an online application, 2) a current copy of your vita, 3) evidence of teaching effectiveness, 4) a teaching statement, 5) a research statement, 6) transcripts, and 7) a one page diversity and inclusion statement summarizing your contributions or potential contributions to diversity and inclusion as they relate to teaching, research, and/or mentoring. Please reference job requisition #22684. Finalists for the position will be required to submit letters from three references that should be sent directly to Dr. Stacie Holloway (Stacie.Furst-Holloway@uc.edu) within ten (10) business days of notification of selection. Applications will be accepted and reviewed until the position is filled.

 Review of applications will begin October 15, 2017.

FOR ALL FACULTY HIRES

OFFICIAL ACADEMIC TRANSCRIPTS WILL BE REQUIRED AT THE TIME OF HIRE

The University of Cincinnati, as a multi-national and culturally diverse university, is committed to providing an inclusive, equitable and diverse place of learning and employment. As part of a complete job application you will be asked to include a Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion statement.

The University of Cincinnati is an Affirmative Action / Equal Opportunity Employer / M / F / Veteran / Disabled.

Anjali Dutt, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Cincinnati

Southeast ECO comes to Miami - October 28th

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Hello SCRA community! 

Our Southeast ECO conference team is ready to rock on October 28th now that we have confirmation our camping area and cabins have survived Hurricane Irma. Due to the storm and the delay it caused we have extended our call for proposals and early bird registration until October 5th. 

This years conference is being hosted by The Engagement Power and Social Action Research Team out of the University of Miami along with our Community Well-Being PhD program, Community and Social Change MA program and our undergraduate program in Human and Social Development. This year’s ECO will be some fun in the sun, with a camping kind of ECO vibe, that will celebrate and highlight the many ‘Community Psychologies’ found in the Southeast and beyond. With our conference theme CP Rising: Multiple Community Psychologies for Social Change, this conference will comprise traditional conference presentations for you to share your research, an engaged skill share methodology session, and of course a few sprinkles of Miami magic.

Find our Call for Proposals here (Deadline extended until October 5th) 

And don’t forget to register Here! (Early bird registration has been extended until October 5th). **Housing options for the weekend include free tent camping, a 10$ charge for cabin camping or the option to stay in nearby hotels (group rates will be posted online in the coming days)**. 

We invite you all to join us in Miami for this day full of co-learning and creating as we continue the long history of ECO with our fellow Southeast family. All are welcome! 

***A little note about this years theme***

Community Psychology has deep and diverse theoretical, paradigmatic and historical roots that inform the ways we craft our research questions, build new theory, engage with participants and communities, and where and how we can and ought to step into the fray of social change work. This years ECO conference aims to highlight this multiplicity in our field - critical community psychology, ecological and cultural community psychology, prevention and community science, feminist community psychology, and many more as yet unnamed threads of our field that together have the potential to weave a transformative fabric towards racial, economic, environmental and gender justice in our communities and society.

Will you stand with us? In each of our proposal formats (posters, skillshares and roundtables) you are being asked to reflect on YOUR community psychology and to find a way to creatively share with other conference attendees how this framing, theory, paradigm and/or methodology shapes your work. Let’s learn and teach across our different and complementary (or perhaps contradictory?!) ways of understanding and doing Community Psychology.

All the best, 

Natalie Kivell and Susie Paterson (conference co-organizers)

Natalie Kivell
PhD Candidate, Community Well-Being 

Host of RadioActive on wvum.org
University of Miami
(519) 270-1864
n.kivell@umiami.edu

North Carolina Service-Learning Summit “Civic Engagement Through Service-Learning” Call for Proposals (Due Oct 6th, 2017)

[Announcement from he-sl]

Colleagues,

The North Carolina Service-Learning Coalition (www.ncslc.org ) requests workshop proposals and showcase presentations for the 2017 NC Statewide Service-Learning Summit to be held Thursday, November 16, 2017 at UNC-Pembroke.

All Proposals must be received no later than Friday, October 6th, 2017.
We encourage your submissions via our Google form: https://tinyurl.com/y9nepqht

We will inform all presenters and showcases by October 10, 2017.

This year’s Summit is organized around the theme of “Civic Engagement Through Service-Learning” and students, service-learning professionals, and community organizations across the state will gather and share their best practices.

This year, the National Youth Leadership Council (NYLC) has partnered with NCSLC to be featured with keynote and breakout sessions.

Registration is open at this link: https://tinyurl.com/NCSLC2017

For more information, please contact Enoch Park at contact@ncslc.org

Enoch Park

Board of Directors
North Carolina Service Learning Coalition
contact@ncslc.org
enoch@ncslc.org

[SCRA-L] European community Psychology : 10th Congress in Newcastle UK

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Dear all, I am pleased to informe you that the 10th congress on community psychology in on . It will be held  in Newcastle (UK) on the 18th -20th of October 2017

See the program on the congress website

 www.ecpa-congress.com    

On behalf of ECPA president and board I hope to see some of you there and improve our exchange and connections

Caterina 

CATERINA ARCIDIACONO

 Full Prof of Community Psychology 

Federico II University Naples

ECPA BOARD 

Editor  CPGP http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/issue/current

mail: caterina.arcidiacono@unina.it

Mobile: 0039 335405297

Skype: caterina_arcidiacono

Registration is OPEN for the 2017 Pen to Paper Writing Retreat!!!

[Announcement from he-sl listserv]

Registration is now OPEN!

Pen to Paper: A Writing Retreat Focused on Writing With, For, and About Service and Engagement
 
Conference Dates: Thursday, November 9th - Friday, November 8th, 2017
Location: Nazareth College, Rochester, New York

Join your colleagues and journal editors from around the country for a conference focused on writing about service and engagement. Previous conferences in this series have provided time, space, and resources to assist faculty, professional staff, graduate students, and community partners either planning to work, or working on journal manuscripts or book chapters related to service-learning and community engagement. Participants discussed ideas with editors from major publications, explored publishing outlets, received mentoring from Senior Faculty Coaches, shared ideas with peers, and had time to write and revise.

Have questions? Contact Laura Weaver, director of programs and member development at Indiana Campus Compact, at weaverla@iupui.edu.

Learn more>>
Register today>>

Announcement of Winter School “Competing or cooperating: human interaction in times of social and economic instability” – Padua (Italy), February 5th-9th 2018

[Announcement from SCRA-L]

Dear SCRA members,

the Department of Developmental Psychology and Socialization at the University of Padua is organizing a Winter School on competitive and cooperative behaviors in relation to socioeconomic factors.

Date of Winter School: 5th to February 9th, 2018

Place: Padua, Italy

Application deadline: November 15th, 2017

Applications are welcome from post-doctoral, Ph.D and Master’s students (with at least two years of research experience) with a research interest on socioeconomic factors associated to human cooperation and competition and one of the following areas: social psychology, psychology of social class, community psychology, political psychology, judgment and decision-making, behavioral economics.

The Winter School has a multidisciplinary approach and the speakers, as well as the interactive seminars, will cover all the above areas and perspectives on how socioeconomic factors influence competitive and cooperative behaviors.

The goal of the 5-day program is to provide participants with a multidisciplinary perspective on how competitive and cooperative behaviors are shaped by socioeconomic factors.

International speakers:

- Paul Piff (Department of Psychology and Social Behavior- University of California, Irvine) http://faculty.sites.uci.edu/piff/

- Eric Knowles (Department of Psychology - New York University - NYU, New York) https://psych.nyu.edu/knowles/

- Ilana Ritov (School of Education/Center for the Study of Rationality

- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) http://pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il/~msiritov/ilanaritov.htm

Coordinating the interactive seminars:

- Dr. Inga Jonaityte (University of Venice, expert in experimental economics) http://www.unive.it/data/persone/13910982/curriculum

Presenting “We App Heroes”:

- Dr. Valentina Hernandez (Sunscious CEO & Co-Founder, developer of “We App Heroes” and TEDx speaker) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2f9JF4a8co,

For additional information, please visit the website:

http://www.dpss.unipd.it/winter-school-2018/home

For any questions please contact: winterschool.dpss@unipd.it

Best wishes,

Michela Lenzi

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Michela Lenzi

Assistant Professor at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology - Via Venezia 8, 35132, Padova (PD)

Tel: +39 049 8271208

Call for Proposals for Edited Book

[Announcement from he-sl]

Hello Everyone,

My colleagues and I are requesting proposals for an edited book on libraries and community engagement. See details below on the topic and what should be included in the proposals.

Book Title:

Partnerships – Library, Interprofessional and Community Collaborations for Health and Quality of Life

Co-editors are from the University of Louisville:

Fannie M. Cox, MLS, MPA Outreach and Reference Librarian, University of Louisville, KY

Henry R. Cunningham, PhD Director of Community Engagement, University of Louisville, KY

Vicki Hines-Martin, PhD, PMHCNS, RN, FAAN Director of the Office of Health Disparities and Community Engagement School of Nursing, University of Louisville, KY

Proposal submission deadline: September 25, 2017

Introduction

This book will serve as a resource for anyone interested or involved in developing partnerships involving professional, community and library organizations. It will present specific techniques and strategies that have been used by community organizations, technical, community and/or academic libraries and professionals in a variety of disciplines who have successfully collaborated to make a difference to identify health, wellbeing and/ or quality of life outcomes of diverse populations in a variety of settings.  Integral to each chapter, will be presentation of the collaborative projects from the perspectives of members of the partnership and the impact the project made among members of the developed partnership as well as the targeted populations.

The framework for the book will be focused on Carnegie definition of Community Engagement which describes the collaboration between institutions, professionals and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge, resources and activities in a context of partnership and reciprocity.

However, developing partnerships based on the differing definitions of, and goals for, Community Engagement when working with community partners and diverse professionals requires consensus, shared decision making and negotiation.  Discussion of challenges and lessons learned as a result of the collaborative project will also be a component of proposals that will be accepted.

Book Chapter Proposals - Topics of Interest

We seek chapter proposals for an edited book which includes case studies that illustrate how libraries, community organizations, and professionals have partnered to enhance health and quality of life of populations in a variety of settings. Chapter proposals should describe successful partnership across the life span and include the perspectives of those who were partners in the project. Partnerships that include the following areas would be of particular interest (although others will be considered):

·         Information Literacy

·         Leisure

·         Arts & Humanities

·         Education

·         Science & engineering 

·         Media & Communications   

·         Law and Social Justice

·         Culture & Customs

·         Health and behavior

Guidelines for Proposal Authors

Proposals should be submitted via email as a PDF or Microsoft Word file.  Authors should submit the following information:

·         Multiple or single author name(s)

o   Lead author should be designated.

o   Author names submitted need to have materially contributed to the project and/or the proposed case study

·         Institutional affiliation(s) and position title(s) for each author

·         Author(s)’ previous writing and publishing history on the topical area, if any

Project Title (for use as chapter title)

Summary or abstract of the proposed chapter (maximum of 700 words) which will address the following:

·         Description of the project goal(s) and/or purpose(s)

·         Project Partners and roles (Professionals, professional organizations, non-profit, community at large, etc.)

·         How did the project get started and how long did it last or has been going on?

·         How did the team function?

·         What did each partner bring to the partnership?

·         What were/are the outcomes?

·         What were the challenges and lessons learned?

·         Recommendations for those who would like to engage in a similar project

Authors of selected proposals will be notified in Spring 2018.  Chapter Requirements for selected proposals:

·         20-page minimum to 30-page maximum double- spaced page narrative

·         Font and size are Arial 12

·         One inch margins

·         Permission to use chart(s) and figure(s) must be obtained by the authors

·         Black & white photos preferred at 300 dpi minimal quality

·         Color photos 300 dpi used at the discretion of the Editors

·         Proposed chapters should be unique to this publication – no materials that were previously published or simultaneously submitted to another publication will be included.

Proposals should be emailed to:

Dr. Henry Cunningham, the University of Louisville at ceserv@louisville.edu 

Henry R. Cunningham, PhD

Director, Community Engagement

Adjunct Faculty, Caribbean Studies

Office of the Vice President for Community Engagement

Suite 100 Administrative Annex

University of Louisville

Phone: 502-852-6026

www.louisville.edu