Responsible for the strategic leadership, oversight, and financial stewardship of the Society.
These committees develop and oversee ISSBD's programs, publications, member services, and international initiatives.
ISSBD Working Groups bring together members around focused, time-limited initiatives, tackling specific questions and projects that advance the Society's scientific and strategic priorities.
Regional Representatives strengthen ISSBD's global presence by connecting the Society with developmental scientists in their regions. They promote membership, support regional activities and professional development, encourage participation in ISSBD initiatives, and foster collaboration across the global developmental science community.
The ISSBD staff provide the administrative, operational, and communications support that enables the Society's governance, programs, publications, conferences, and member services to function effectively.
This committee works with the Treasurer to review investments and develop investment policy; and provide advice on D&O insurance, US non-profit filings (form 990), and financial transactions and institutions. It also reviews the budget as proposed and recommends actions to the EC.
This committee develops the slate of nominees for elections.
The membership committee works with the Membership Secretary on membership recruitment strategies, including reaching better coverage of the lifespan; greater diversity of fields; improved recruitment of human development scholars beyond the US, Canada, and Europe, while retaining these traditional members; and more young scholars. This committee also works with the Membership Secretary to develop policy about membership fees.
This committee solicits nominations for ISSBD awards and ISSBD Fellows awards, reviews the submissions, and selects the awardees to be announced at the biennial meeting.
The Publications Committee oversees all ISSBD publications including IJBD, the ISSBD Bulletin, and web content. In addition, the Publications Committee recommends to the Executive Committee any changes in policy (including budgets) affecting publications. Finally, they periodically consider whether ISSBD should be engaging additional publication/communication approaches.
The ISSBD Communications Committee aims to ensure that the communication platforms of ISSBD reflect its commitment to international, diverse, and inclusive research on lifespan development, connecting researchers globally, and democratizing the production and communication of scholarly research.
ISSBD runs the Early Career Scholars (ECS) programme for its membership in their early career stage. ISSBD defines an ECS as scholar of human development who is either working towards a PhD or whose PhD has been awarded less than 7 years ago. Thus, most early career scholars are in the early stage of their careers with a hunger for professional development.
Read more about our early career activities here.
This committee is responsible for soliciting, assessing, and allocating travel grants and pre-conference workshop opportunities for early career scholars.
This committee capitalizes on ISSBD’s investments in optimizing global capacity.
This committee provides recommendations to the Executive Committee regarding the funding of ISSBD regional workshops.
The aim of Peter K. Smith Fellowship is to encourage sustainable development of activities congruent with the aims of ISSBD in developing countries and assist the professional development of early career scholars.
A/Prof. Vasileios Stavropoulos is a Clinical Psychologist, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Higher Degree by Research) at RMIT University, Australia, where he leads the Digital Minds Lab. His research examines how digital environments—including social media, gaming and emerging AI technologies—interact with individual and contextual factors to shape developmental, mental health and behavioural outcomes across the lifespan. His work integrates developmental science with artificial intelligence, digital phenotyping, longitudinal cohort studies and advanced quantitative methods to improve the early identification, understanding and prevention of risk while promoting resilience and healthy development. He is committed to ensuring that AI is developed and applied in ways that are scientifically rigorous, developmentally informed and socially responsible.
View Full Profile →Regional Representatives support ISSBD members across different regions of the world. For more information on the role and how to get involved, visit the Regional Representatives support page.
These are ISSBD staff employed to support the society in membership and communication.