GASP 2011 Lunch Registration Open

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With support from the Diversity and Climate Committee and the Executive Committee of SPSP, we are delighted to invite you to attend the GASP Mentorship Luncheon at SPSP, to be held during the annual SPSP meeting January 27-29 in San Antonio.

The luncheon will be held on Friday, January 28th. We expect it to be held at the regularly scheduled lunch time. Faculty mentors will host tables of 7-10 students, post docs, and faculty for discussions of a variety of research, teaching, and professional issues.

GASP, the GLBT Alliance in Social and Personality Psychology, is an official affiliate of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. Membership and events are open to all, regardless of sexual orientation or research interest. For more information about GASP, please see the information at the end of this message.

For best consideration, please sign up for the luncheon by Friday, November 19th. To sign up, please write to us at gasplu...@earthlink.net and indicate your ranked choice of up to three of the following topics:

1. Communicating Psychological Science Information about Sexual Orientation to Faith Communities (David, G. Myers, Hope College)

2. Women's Career Challenges and Outcomes (Alice Eagly, Northwestern University)

3. Developing Effective Theory-based Interactive HIV Prevention Interventions for MSM Lynn C. Miller, Annenberg School for Communication, USC)

4. Slipping the handcuffs: How to survive the extra demands of being the only Black/Brown/Queer/man/woman/thing in your department (Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA)

5. Job Interviews and Job Negotiations (B. Ann Bettencourt, University of Missouri)

6. Publishing on LGBT Topics: Things I Know Now That I Wish I Had Known in Graduate School (Terri Vescio, Penn State University)

7. Researching Marginalized and Secret Romantic Relationships (Justin Lehmiller, Colorado State University)

8. Being Competitive on the Job Market: An Insider’s Perspective on Psychology Department and Business School Search Committees (Robert W. Livingston, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University)

9. Sexual Orientation Disclosure and the Job Market (Clayton R. Critcher, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley)

10. How to Become a More Efficient, Productive Researcher (Nicholas Rule, University of Toronto)

11. Tips for Writing Grants on Sexual-Minority Populations (Lisa M. Diamond, University of Utah)

12. Funding Postdoctoral Diversity Research and Researchers (Wesley Moons, UC Davis)

If there is a research or professional issue not on this list that you would like to see covered at this or future events, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Wesley Moons and Lisa Aspinwall
2011 GASP Luncheon Co-chairs

*Information about GASP*

GASP provides social support and professional resources to Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender students and faculty in social and personality psychology. GASP's major goals are to maintain a safe and welcoming professional forum for LGBT students and faculty and their heterosexual allies, and to serve as a resource for researchers, teachers, and other professionals.

*Home page*
http://www.psych.utah.edu/gasp/

*Listserv*
Our private moderated listserve sends noncommercial postings about LGBT research and professional issues to more than 270 members worldwide. To subscribe, http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/listinfo.cgi/gasp

*GASP Measures Database*
Searchable database of measures designed for LGBT issues or populations,
https://apps.psych.utah.edu/psych/gasp/newdbindex.jsp

*Contact Info*
GASP was founded by Lisa G. Aspinwall and Lisa M. Diamond, both members of the psychology faculty at the University of Utah. You may reach us at gasp...@earthlink.net