Canadian Psychological Association

Dear students,

The Student Section Executives would like to update you on what's coming up for our section.

1.Elections

We are getting ready to launch the election for next year's executive. We received a handful of applications for the chair-elect, admin & finance officer, and the graduate student affairs officer.  We aim to have elections running by mid-February.

2.Call for Mindpad Editors (Revised Deadline!) and Submissions

*Please note the revised date for editorial application deadline.

MindPad is recruiting for one undergraduate and one graduate editor for this coming year.  Getting involved is an opportunity for students to gain familiarity with the formal reviewing process that every psychologist (and psychologist in training!) must go through.  Submit to rana.pishva@gmail.com by April 15th

MindPad is also recruiting for article submissions.  We are looking for submissions that are 800 to 2000 words in length. The content of the newsletter should be of interest to all who are practicing and studying psychology, but the primary audience of the newsletter are students of psychology. Please submit references (not included in word count) and use APA formatting. Graphs and tables are acceptable.  Submit to rana.pishva@gmail.com by February 17th

3. Call for Psynopsis Submissions on Evidence-Based Practice
We are recruiting submissions for our national magazine that is distributed to every CPA member.  The upcoming edition is devoted to evidence-based practice in psychology and is a great outlet to post articles related to the researcher-practitioner gap in any field such as clinical, I/O, education, and criminal justice.  We welcome a broad range of submissions and if you have any questions, contact the acting chair at: jfeeney3@uwo.ca

4. Psychology Month
The Executive Committee of the Section for Students would like to invite you to participate in an annual campaign to fill all vacant campus representative positions across Canada! During Psychology Month, all new recruits will receive a piece of CPA gear; there are pens, pads of paper, hats, and leather bags to be won! Every new CPA representative during the month of February will receive a prize drawn at random.

The Section for Students is the largest section of the CPA. The main goals of the Section's Executive Committee and the Campus Representative Program are to provide information, support, and representation to student affiliates of the CPA. Currently, the program has approximately 40 graduate representatives, 30 undergraduate representatives, and 30 faculty representatives. Nonetheless, numerous positions remain vacant. As members of the Section for Students, let's work together to ensure that every psychology-related department in Canada has CPA representation!

If you're interested in becoming a campus representative, first check to see if the position at your institution is vacant (see below). If it is, please send an email of intent as well as a CV to the Campus Representative Coordinator (Missy Teatero, mteatero@lakeheadu.ca). If you are not personally interested in being a representative or the relevant position is filled, we would greatly appreciate if you could help us fill vacant positions at the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty level. For example, you may have professors, colleagues, or friends that may be interested in becoming a Campus Representative and thus, you could refer them to the Campus Representative Program.

Up-to-date listings of the undergraduate, graduate, and faculty campus representative positions available can be found at www.cpa.ca/students/studentrepresentatives/campusreps/ and www.cpa.ca/students/facultyrepresentatives/current/. If a psychology-related program is not listed, we still welcome CPA representatives and will add the institution to the website.

Let's work together and make our Campus Representative Program even more successful! The campaign will run throughout Psychology Month.

5. CPA Section Awards

Make sure to browse the CPA sections that are relevant to your research (e.g., CSIOP for I/O).  Many of them provide student awards for conference funding and best paper.
www.cpa.ca/aboutcpa/cpasections/

The SWAP section has asked us advertise a mentor award.  The purpose of the SWAP Mentoring Award is to recognize feminist supervisors who have promoted the advancement of their students through exceptional mentoring. If your supervisor has been instrumental in this regard, see: www.cpa.ca/aproposdelascp/sectionsdelascp/SWAP/awardapplications/

Cheers,
Justin Feeney
Acting-Chair