The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) is seeking nominations for its 2023 Distinguished Lifetime Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize a scientist who has made sustained and important contributions to our understanding of self and identity throughout their academic career. The award will be made on the basis of originality, quality, and impact of scientific research in the area of self and identity.

The award winner will be invited to present a distinguished address at the 2024 SPSP Self and Identity Pre-Conference in San Diego California where they will receive a plaque. ISSI will cover the award winner's travel expenses to SPSP, up to $1000. The award winner will also be invited to submit an Award Address paper to the journal, Self & Identity. 

Candidates for the award are not restricted by discipline and membership in ISSI is not a requirement. 

Nominations should include (a) a brief letter of nomination addressing the nature and impact of the nominee's contribution to the scientific study of self and identity, (b) a copy of the nominee's CV, and (c) no more than 3 PDFs of their work selected for their quality and relevance to the award. Self nominations are acceptable. Please send nominating materials electronically. Nominations are due by FRIDAY, MAY 13, 2023.

The selection committee (Joshua Hicks, Erin Cooley, and Ludwin Molina) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee and the winner will be selected by mid-June 2023.

Nominating materials should be sent to Joshua Hicks, Chair, ISSI Distinguished Lifetime Career Award Committee: joshua.hicks@tamu.edu

The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI) seeks nominations for its 2023 Outstanding Early Career Award. This award is made annually to recognize and encourage a distinguished junior scientist who has made outstanding theoretical and empirical contributions to the scientific study of self and identity. The award will be made on the basis of originality, quality, and impact of scientific research in the area of self and identity. 

The award winner will be invited to deliver a distinguished address and receive a plaque at the 2024 SPSP Self and Identity Pre-Conference (February 8th in San Diego, CA). ISSI will cover up to $1000 of the award winner's travel expenses to SPSP. The award winner will also be invited to submit an Award Address paper to the society's flagship journal Self & Identity. 

Eligibility: Nominees should have completed their PhD no earlier than January of 2013.

Nominations should include (a) a brief letter of nomination addressing the nature and impact of the nominee's contribution to the scientific study of self and identity, (b) a copy of the nominee's CV, and (c) no more than 3 PDFs of her or his work selected for their quality and relevance to the award.  Please send nominating materials electronically. Nominations are due by FRIDAY, MAY 26th, 2023.

The selection committee (Brandon Schmeichel, Sarah Gaither, Marina Malavskaya, and Angel Gomez Jimenez) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee, and the winner will be selected by August of 2023.

Nominating materials should be sent to Brandon Schmeichel, Chair, ISSI Outstanding Early Career Award Committee: bjschmeichel@gmail.com.

Self and Identity, the flagship journal of The International Society for Self and Identity (ISSI), is seeking a new editor through an application process. The editorial term is four years and would begin January 1, 2024 and continue through December 31, 2027.

Candidates for Editor are not restricted by discipline and membership in ISSI is not a requirement. 

In order to apply, please submit your application through:

https://buffalocas.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6R6c5eYOrX5PiEC

Applications are due by June 1, 2023.

Candidates should also send a copy of their CV to Shira Gabriel, Chair, Self and Identity Search Committee: sgabriel@buffalo.edu . The search committee (Serena Chen, Shira Gabriel, and Kim Rios) will make its recommendation to the ISSI Executive Committee and the new Editor will be selected by August 15, 2023.

The International Society for Self & Identity (ISSI) is delighted to announce the awardees for our 2022 Mini Research Grant Program.

In this second year of the program, we received 35 proposals. These proposals spanned a wide range of topics on the self and identity and came from researchers from across the world.

We were able to fund 5 proposals submitted by faculty, post-docs, and graduate students.

Identity Denial and Multicultural Identity Reassertion

Brenda Straka, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Identities in Transition: Sexual Fluidity and Sexual Satisfaction in Partners of Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals

Katherine Goldey, Associate Professor, St. Edward's University

The Effects of Identity Conflict on Minority Police Officers' Job Satisfaction and Vocational Connectedness

Kityara James, PhD Student, University of Texas at El Paso

Representation and hairstyle matter: The effect of scientists’ hairstyle on Black women’s anticipated belonging across STEM contexts

Nadia Floyd, PhD Student, University of Colorado, Boulder

Antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of psychological need sacrificing

André St-Jacques, PhD Student, Université du Québec à Montréal

We offer our congratulations to each of these awardees. We look forward to seeing their work, as well as the work of all the submitters, in upcoming ISSI preconferences and in the pages of Self and Identity.

Look out for next year’s call for mini grant proposals, which will likely come out around August 2023.

We are thrilled to invite you to the upcoming General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology in Kraków that will take place between June 30th-July 4th, 2023.  

The General Meeting is one of the largest meetings of social psychologists, which takes place in Europe every three years. Researchers are invited to present their work about a wide range of topics in social psychology including but not limited to: Attitudes, Emotion and Motivation, Group Processes, Intergroup Relations, Interpersonal Processes, Social Cognition, and Self and Identity.  

Apart from the conference itself, there are also pre-conferences and summer school planned. All the events will be held in person.

For more information regarding the conference, events, and submissions, please, visit our website: https://www.easp2023krakow.com/.  

Do not hesitate, as the submission portal closes on December 7th. Pre-conference proposals are accepted until the end of December.

See you in Krakow!

The Organizational Committee of EASP GM 2023

If you have an announcement that you would like to include, please email your request to Cathy Cox (c.cox@tcu.edu).