EARA Newsletter November 2018
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Newsletter November, 2018 Editor Fabrizia Giannotta From the President Mäladarens University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Västerås, Sweden. Almost two months ago, we were in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium for the 16th Biennial Conference of EARA. About 450 scholars were at the conference and enjoyed a very high quality program. We had high quality symposia, interesting poster sessions In this Issue… and inspiring addresses from invited speakers from Europe and the United States, such as Eveline Crone, expert on adolescent brain development, and Lisa Crockett, past- p. 1 Letter from the President. p. 3 Looking back and ahead: Reflections on the 16th president of the Society for Research on EARA conference and ideas for future practice. Adolescence, our North American sister p. 5 Minutes of the EARA General Assembly in organization. The discussion session on Ghent, Belgium. power dynamics in academics addressed p. 7 The EARA Lifetime Achievement Award: many related issues that require our Professor Håkan Stattin p. 9 The EARA Young Scholar Award: continuous attention. During the Dr. Marlies Maes conference, several awardees were honored. p. 10 Outstanding Mentor Award The EARA lifetime honorary achievement p. 10 National Representatives: Fourth meeting in award was given to Håkan Stattin, a Ghent. distinguished European scholar and past- p.12 From the EARA Young Scholars (former SECNet): EARA Young Scholars Activities at the president of EARA. The young scholar EARA conference. award was given to Marlies Maes of KU p. 13 Report EADP-EARA-SRA Summer School Leuven in Belgium. The EARA Outstanding 2018. Mentor Award, which has been introduced p. 15 Presentation of two books in 2018 by former EARA president Figen p. 15 Eara publications. p. 19 Inquires. Cok, proved to be a successful initiative, as its first edition had two awardees. Peter Noack received the senior mentor award and Theo Klimstra received the junior mentor award. Just before the EARA conference, the EADP- EARA-SRA summer school was organized in Drongen Abbey, a historical cloister close to 1 Ghent. Senior scholars this time were John conferences, something we offered in the Schulenberg, Andrew Fuligni, Sabine past with funding of the Jacobs Foundation. Walper, Eva Pomerantz, Frosso Motti and In addition to organizing summer schools, Loes Keijsers. Together with 24 junior possibilities for workshops will be explored, researchers, they experienced three very with particular emphasis on ethical aspects intensive and productive days. This was the of research. In our field we have seen a second summer school organized in close growing emphasis on ethical aspects of cooperation with our sister organizations research, in terms of protecting participant European Association for Developmental rights and privacy, but also in terms of so- Psychology (EADP) and SRA and I am glad called FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, we can continue this important from of Interoperability, and Reusability) data training for young scholars since the funding principles. I consider it important to discuss from Jacobs foundation has come to an end. these issues and their implications at our We are currently preparing for the next conferences and other meetings. I will also summer school, which will take place in late aim to strengthen the efforts of EARA to August 2019 in Athens, just before the show the societal and policy implications of biennial meeting of the EADP. Stay tuned research on adolescence, both in for the call for applications! Very positive is collaboration with sister organizations and that all three associations are committed to the International Consortium of organizing at least two or three more Developmental Science Societies (ICDSS). summer schools, so continuity of the schools An important development in this is the new for the near future is guaranteed. So we can journal of on developmental science and look forward as well to a summer school in global policy, with an editor from each of the 2020, just before the EARA conference in member societies. Whenever possible, I will Porto. attend the meetings of the ICDSS, to As the incoming president, I am fortunate to promote closer cooperation with them. find our association in excellent financial Moreover, I will strengthen the emphasis of shape. After experiencing a drop in our EARA on interdisciplinary perspectives on income a few years ago, which was related to adolescent development, for example by a drop in membership renewals, the new organizing interdisciplinary sessions at membership committee, consisting of future conferences and paying attention to Elisabetta Crocetti, Metin Ozdemir and interdisciplinary aspects in EARA Saskia Kunnen, has spent tremendous workshops. In this, I will work closely efforts in reinstalling and improving our together with Paula Mena Matos, who has membership renewal procedures. This has similar plans for the 2020 conference. resulted in an increase in our membership and in our financial resources as well: The So far for the news of the president. I will temporary dip in budget has not only keep you updated in the upcoming disappeared, the budget looks better than newsletters and wish all EARA members a ever. I would like to thank you for becoming productive and healthy academic year. or renewing your membership, as this kind of involvement in the association is Warm regards, extremely important for the future of the association. Susan Branje This positive development is a good base to Utrecht University, The Netherlands start developing plans as incoming president. It will facilitate working on my goal to provide young scholars training. As a first step, the council decided to reinstall travel grants for young scholars for 2 association’ or ‘tested for that covariate’. Looking back and Many of those suggestions are excellent but often it is too late to consider them: Because ahead: Reflections data collection has finished, experiments on the 16th EARA have been run, and articles, in which results are written-up, are under review or even conference and published. The suggestions from the audience are needed at a moment that they ideas for future can still be incorporated into study or analytic designs, without compromising practice good research practice. The traditional journal peer-reviewing Submitted by Tina Kretschmer system functions similarly: Reviewers (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) suggest different concepts, strategies for data collection, statistical models and As I travel back home from Ghent, I scan covariates after a study has been conducted, through my conference notes, look up the when results are determined, written-up, articles I got inspired to read, and sketch out and discussed. However, a new format - new research ideas. This EARA conference Registered Reports format, which has been was my third since attending the summer adopted by more than 130 journals among school in Turin as a PhD student ten years which Emerging Adulthood and the British ago, and I am extremely excited to see how Journal of Developmental Psychology, “grown up” research on adolescence has provides an alternative. Authors submit become. Many of us use large, longitudinal introduction, theoretical background, and samples to study development. We collect methods sections, but no results or data not only from adolescents themselves discussion. Editors accept or reject articles but also their friends, families, and teachers. based on reviewers’ evaluations of the We use diary methods, well-designed theoretical justification for a study and its experiments, or biological samples, and design. This procedure contributes to integrate different layers of development, improving the quality of proposed studies ranging from the (epi)genome, to the brain, because feedback is given prior to data to personality, to the proximal, and distal collection or processing. More detail on environment. We employ cross-cultural Registered Reports can be found on the research to draw conclusions about the Center for Open Science website societal impact on adolescence. Reflecting (www.co.io/rr/), together with a list of on these developments, I am really curious journals that have implemented this format. to see where EARA as a society and As a conference format, discussing planned conference is headed, and would like to studies and analyses could have similar outline two suggestions for future meetings effects: We would increase collaborative and one additional suggestion for research practice, ensure that our research benefits on adolescence in general. These ideas are from the good ideas of others, and facilitate informed by open science practices and discussion as to why specific design and represent innovative ways of presenting analysis decisions are better suited than research: others. It is not difficult to put this into practice: At EARA 2020, let’s organizing a 1. Discussing work-in-progress plenum session in which early career At conferences - EARA is no different - one researchers pitch their ideas, followed by of the most common ways to start a question lunch that facilitates feedback from senior after a talk is by asking whether the colleagues and discussion of those ideas with presenter had also ‘looked into this other researchers. 3 2. Thinking about p-values, distracts from drawing meaningful effects, and explanations conclusions. Pre-registration of planned Let us also remember what exactly we are data collection and analyses after in our work: As developmental (https://bit.ly/2DV4eWU)