2012
Proposal for CIHR Funding: Dr. Peter Hausdorf (CSIOP), CPA, Dr. Rick Hackett and HEAL
(February, 2012): The CPA, on behalf of a subset of the Health Action Lobby (HEAL) member organizations and associations, and with Dr. Peter Hausdorf (Canadian Society for Industrial-Organizational Psychology - CSIOP) and Dr. Rick Hackett (Human Resources and Management, McMaster University), submitted a proposal for funding to CIHR February 29, 2012. The goal of the proposal is to develop a web-based survey that would allow for the assessment of the work-related health and well-being of Canada’s health professionals. Anticipated notice of decision is Summer 2012.
CPA, as a member of the Canadian Consortium of Research (CCR), encourages you to contact your MP to let them know about the importance of research and research funding to Canada.
At recent meetings, members of the Canadian Consortium of Research (CCR) discussed the outlook for this year’s federal Budget. The context is the federal Strategic and Operating Review which required all departments to propose a departmental budget based on an overall cut of (a) 5% and (b) 10%. Final decisions will be made by senior ministers. Presumably, cuts to the Granting Councils may well be proposed under this exercise. Furthermore, government in-house research is already being seriously cut in at least one department, Environment Canada, and more may be proposed.
While this process is well underway, Minister Flaherty has talked of ‘flexibility’ in the government’s plans, and the fluid international economic outlook probably means that the government’s plans will also be fluid. This situation is at best unclear and at worst threatening for research funding. Yet , given the economic uncertainties, the government may be open to persuasion.
CCR therefore believes that it is essential that the voice of the research community be heard! CCR is undertaking various actions, one of which is to recommend to all CCR member organizations that they ask their individual members to urgently send e-mails to their own MP, with copies to Ministers Flaherty, Paradis and Goodyear, to remind them of the importance of continuing to support research. The success of the 2010 e-mail campaign regarding the Ontario Engineering Act suggests to us that a large number of e-mails could well be effective. In addition, last January’s CCR-coordinated e-mail campaign produced over 500 e-mails, which must have raised the visibility of the research community’s arguments.
This year it is very simple to send a letter to your MP and to Ministers Flaherty, Paradis and Goodyear, making use of CPA’s advocacy on-line service – the same one CPA used to marshal the federal and provincial/territorial election campaigns in 2011.
To send a letter using the on-line service simply click on either of the links below. On each page, you will find a letter template which you can change or customize as you see fit. The instructions to modify and send the letter are found on the page. For any questions or assistance, simply contact Tyler Stacey-Holmes at styler@cpa.ca
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1727&ea.campaign.id=12842 (English)
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1727&ea.campaign.id=13272 (French)
Seeking member feedback for “Evidence-based practice of psychological treatments”
CPA recently formed a task force charged with developing a set of criteria to be used to define evidence based practice (EBP) of psychological treatments. The enclosed document is the first draft of what will ultimately be a comprehensive set of guidelines intended to support Canadian psychologists in providing treatment that is guided by the best available evidence. We invite you to submit your reactions to the document entitled “Evidence-Based Practice of Psychological Treatments: A Canadian Perspective.” Detailed feedback will help inform future iterations of the guidelines.
Please go to the following link for more information and let us know what you think:http://cpa.ca/researchers/sciencedirectorate/defebp/
The survey posted at the link will remain live until April 15, 2012.
Research Chair Opening
Université Laval's Faculty of medicine is calling for applications for a Tier-2 Canada Research Chair in the field of Primary Health Care. Deadline for applications is March 31, 2012. Click here for more information.
6th Annual Quality Worklife Quality Healthcare (QWQHC) Summit
Mark your calendars! Join us as QWQHC’s 6th Annual Summit moves west to Vancouver, British Columbia at the Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel on March 1-2, 2012. The Summit will once again provide an opportunity to share ideas, innovations, and practices from a network of colleagues, all engaged in building healthy work environments and improving quality of worklife in healthcare.
The draft Program and Call for Submissions will be available in early Autumn 2011. In the meantime, feel free to visit the QWQHC website at www.qwqhc.ca for more information about our mandate and to hear what participants had to say about the 2011 Summit.
If you have any questions about the Summit, please contact Sally Clelford from Face 2 Face Events Management (conference secretariat) at sally@f2fe.com.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting (February 16-20, 2012 in Vancouver, B.C.)
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) will be holding its annual meeting next year in Vancouver, B.C. from February 16-20, 2012. The AAAS meeting is the largest gathering of its kind in the world. This will be the first time that it has been held in Canada in more than 30 years.
The Vancouver meeting presents an exceptional opportunity for the Canadian research community to meet across all disciplines, showcase Canada’s research and innovation, and place the themes and issues that resonate strongly in this country on the agenda.
The theme chosen for the 2012 meeting, “Flattening the World: Building the 21st Century Global Knowledge Society,” reflects the AAAS’s desire to reach out and engage international dialogue and collaboration for solutions to the global challenges we face.
The AAAS Annual Meeting Scientific Program Committee is particularly interested in proposals that highlight the theme and focus on solutions to global challenges. Proposals that are not directly related to the theme will also be considered if they involve ground-breaking areas of research, new and exciting developments, or cross-cutting activities in support of science, technology and education.
For more information, please vist: http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2012/program/symposia/submit/?sa_campaign=Internal_Ads/AAAS/home_page/2011-02-28/nav_col_btn
Submission of abstracts for the 40th Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society
The 40th annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society will take place in Montreal, Quebec, February 15-18, 2012 under the theme, Back to the future of INS: Transdisciplinary approaches to neuropsychology. Deadline for receipt of abstracts is August 31, 2011. For meeting information and call for abstracts, visit: www.the-ins.org or contact the meeting organizers at 614-263-4200 or ins@osu.edu.