Call for Proposals - Deadline Feb 8, 2025
20th Biennial Conference of the
Society for Community Research and Action
June 17-21, 2025
Hosted by Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Deadline extended: February 8, 2025, 12:00 AM EST
The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) invites you to the 20th Biennial Conference at Michigan State University!
Proposals are encouraged in a variety of topic areas, particularly those related to impactful and transformative community research and action, including:
· Social change and innovation
· Participatory Action Research and other mixed, multi-method, and empowering approaches to research and evaluation
· Multiculturalism, Indigenous rights, and racial justice
· Economic equality
· Women and reproductive justice
· LGBTQ2/Gender and Sexual Minorities (GSM), human rights, and advocacy
· Migration/immigration, displacement, and globalization
· Social determinants of health and health equity (including COVID-19)
· Community-campus partnerships, collaborations, and networks
· Global climate change and sustainability
· Community organizing, coalition-building, civic engagement, and community activism
· Community-campus partnerships, collaborations, and networks
· Grassroots change efforts, creative economy, and arts-based community action
· Collaborative, innovative prevention and wellness programs to advance the well-being of vulnerable communities
· Values and ethics
· Critical perspectives, liberation, and applications of critical theory in the community
· Technological and social media innovations that promote community health and well-being
· Posthumanism and education, planetary justice, and epistemic justice
What is SCRA?
The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA) of the American Psychological Association serves many different disciplines that focus on community research, theory, and action. Its members are committed to promoting health and empowerment and to preventing problems in communities, groups, and individuals.
SCRA 2025 Theme: Celebrating 20 years of SCRA Biennials: Transcending into New Heights
The 20th Biennial is an appreciation of the significance of the history of the Biennials and their role in fostering community among interdisciplinary scholars, practitioners, community members, professionals, and more. Reflecting on the past inspires innovation to transcend to new heights. We encourage you to think about what "transcending into new heights" in community psychology means to you. Lastly, we are in a pivotal time where engagement at the Biennial is critical to the future of the field, so we hope you feel inspired to share your visions for community psychology at the 20th Biennial!
Questions related to the program can be sent to Dominique Edwards at biennialprogram@scra27.org.