The Institute of Personality and Social Research (IPSR) is seeking a new Director effective July 1, 2018. We invite nominations of tenured Berkeley faculty who are highly qualified and willing to serve. This appointment is for an initial five-year term and provides teaching relief and additional compensation.
Founded in 1949 as the Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, the Institute expanded its focus to become the IPSR in 1992. Over this time, IPSR has gained a reputation as a world-wide center for research in five main areas: Personality, Social Processes, Emotion, Culture, and Health. In each area, emphasis has been given to studying phenomena at multiple levels of analysis, including the biological, the individual, and the contextual. IPSR unites a distinguished membership from a broad range of disciplines which to date has included business, education, law, neuroscience, psychology, public health, public policy, social welfare, and sociology.
The Director should demonstrate a commitment to integrating and stimulating research across disciplines, to building community, to outreach and engagement, and to the Berkeley Principles of Community; a creative vision for Institute development and fundraising to sustain and expand IPSR’s programming and financial resources; as well as an active research program in a related field.
Please submit nominations by completing the online nomination form as soon as possible but no later than March 7th, 2018. Self-nominations are welcome. The appointed search advisory committee will not be provided the names of those who submit nominations or know whether individuals have been self nominated (this is intended to avoid any bias based on the nominator’s status/reputation). All nominations will be reviewed by the search advisory committee, which will select nominees to solicit interest in becoming a formal candidate, and through an interview process, recommend 3 candidates to the Vice Chancellor for Research for final selection.
Search Advisory Committee:
- Victoria Plaut (Law) - Committee Chair
- Ron Dahl (Public Health)
- Neil Gilbert (Social Welfare)
- Alison Gopnik (Psychology)
- Jodi Halpern (Public Health)
- Oliver John (Psychology)
- Ann Kring (Psychology)