Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is bringing global leaders in psychology together through the Wiley Psychology Roundtable series to address the international challenges facing the discipline. The latest exclusive event, entitled Global Voices in Psychology, took place at the 2012 International Congress of Psychology in Cape Town, South Africa.
The Wiley Psychology Roundtable series brings together key thinkers across psychology to focus on new, timely or longstanding issues in this vital field of research. The roundtable events provide a forum for discussion with leaders of some of the world's most influential psychological organisations and present an opportunity for collaboration between psychological associations.
Executive officers and Presidents from national and international societies were in attendance, including, Kan Zhang from the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Science, Oscar Barbarin from the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Peter Banister from the British Psychological Society (BPS), Takao Sato from the Japanese Psychological Association (JPA), Simon Crowe from the Australian Psychological Society and Maria Caridad Tarroja from the Psychological Association of the Philippines (PAP).
The event addressed some of the challenges facing the international psychological community, such as capacity building, the mobility of psychologists between countries and the difficulties of retaining highly qualified students, otherwise known as 'brain drain'.
Wiley will continue these discussions at future roundtable events and will look for new ways to support psychological societies and increase international collaboration.
