“A Meeting of Methodologies” (AMOM) is a small conference on the use, evaluation, and teaching of research methods in psychology. The full title of this meeting is: A Meeting of Methodologies -- Advancing Methods Development, Application, and Teaching in Psychology, the Behavioural, and Social Sciences. The conference aims to bring together researchers from multiple communities who examine, think about, use, and teach research methods in psychology, as well as across the behavioral, social and health sciences, including evaluation researchers, statisticians and data scientists. The meeting seeks to bring discussions around advancing research practice and teaching in MULTIPLE methodologies together (e.g., quantitative, qualitative, mixed methods, indigenous).
Topics & Format
Building on the successful meeting in 2020, the 2025 conference will be divided into six topic areas. These are:
· Metascience and Research Justice (this includes work on multiple methods, ethics, social justice & diversity in research)
· Measurement Theory, Assessment, and Applications
· Quantitative and Computational Methods
· Evaluation Methodologies in Theory and Practice
· Methods of Qualitative Inquiry
· Rethinking Pedagogy in Methods in Psychology and Related Fields
The conference will include distinguished keynotes, competitively selected peer-reviewed presentations, and noted discussants.
Why AMOM? and Who?
The methods of any knowledge-making discipline are of fundamental importance, as the knowledge gathered is only as sound as the methods used to gather and interpret it. In psychology in particular, the methods of the discipline are under scrutiny as the field faces the replication crisis. Many people are also questioning the structure of academic psychology: As we question how we use methods in psychology, do we also need to rethink what we teach students in the discipline? And how can we make our methods and our research more inclusive, diverse, and just? While important work is being done considering the critical application of methods in psychology, little has brought together these issues with the conversation around social justice in research and academia. We feel there are important intersections, and hope to bring people together to consider these points of overlap.
AMOM seeks to bring together a diversity of individuals/perspectives from across many career stages. Importantly, methodological inquiry and teaching practices are of importance, not just to individuals within psychology but across other areas of speciality. As such, faculty members, researchers, and students from multiple disciplines will be interested in and can benefit from the discussions at AMOM and the gathering of individuals who are interested in and motivated to advance methods, application, and teaching. Through discussions at AMOM, ideas for new directions in research, application and teaching will be stimulated.
A pdf of the DRAFT (vers March 10th) detailed schedule and abstracts program for the 2-day e-meeting can be accessed from these links: schedule, program.
Paper Highlights from AMOM 2025 Program
| - Research Justice in Theory and Practice - Quantitative Ethnography as a Transmethodological Approach for Socially Just Research |
| - International Comparative Trends in Human Subject Research Ethics: Legal Considerations |
| - Sharpening the Data Double Edge Sword |
| - Utilization of Literary Devices in Psychological Science Discourse |
| - The Experience of First-year Doctoral Student with Academic Writing: A Phenomenological Study. |
| - Reimagining Psychological Methods: Centering Black Girls' Voices in Alternative Schools through YPAR |
| - Extracting Robust Process Features with Time-Embedding N-Grams and Machine Learning Methods |
| - Advancing Sequence Clustering with Image Processing in Educational Assessments |
| - How to Politely Re-dip Your Chip! On the Use of Data-Based Informative Priors in Linear Mixed Models |
| - Constructing A Machine Learning Model For Binary Predictions With Incomplete, Imbalanced Data And Non-Linear Effects |
| - Comparing Pseudo-R-squared Metrics for Multilevel Logistic Regression Models |
| - Comparison of Estimation Algorithms for Detecting Local Solutions in Latent Class Models |
| - Possible Solutions to Heywood Cases in Confirmatory Factor Analysis |
| - Why is Collapsing Sparse Categories from Ordinal Items Recommended in Factor Analysis/Structural Equation Modelling, But Discouraged in Item Response Theory? |
| - A Bayesian Synthesis Approach to Structural Equation Modeling for the Analysis of Massive Data |
| - Construct Operationalization via Plausible Measurement Error Estimates |
| - Using Lasso Logistic Regression to Optimize Item Selection for Short Indices |
| - PSY-tations: How Often Do Psychologists Cite Quantitative Methods in Their Research? |
| - Measurement Crisis in Psychology |
| - On the Value of Talking About Measurement in Non-Measurement Courses |
| - Methods across the Curriculum: Integrating Analytics in Methods and Non-Methods Focused Courses |
| - Identifying Bias in Teaching Materials for an Inferential Statistics Course: Triumphs and Tribulations |
| - Are We Actually Introducing Students to Statistics? Teaching Introductory Statistics as a Course in Statistical Literacy and Critical Thinking |
| - Quantitative Researchers are People Too: Discussing Researcher Positionality and Reflexivity in an Introductory Statistics Course |
Timing/Dates & Location (cyber-space)
AMOM 2025 will be held online, with livestreamed presentations.
The e-conference is scheduled to be online: March 2025
The e-meeting will be hosted from Burnaby, British Columbia, specifically from Bunaby Mountain which is located on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples including the Squamish, Tseil-Waututh, Kwikwitlem, and Musqueum Nations.
Conference dates:
March 29-30, 2025
Submitting a proposal to e-AMoM 2025:
Submit Proposal Here: -- Submission due dates are passed.
First call due date: Jan 15, 2025
2nd call due date: Feb 1st, 2025
Decision emails sent out Feb 25th, 2025
Registering to attend the e-meeting
Faculty/students/applied researchers/community members who are interested in the topics of the current conference are invited to atttend. All attendees (including presenters) must register to attend the e-meeting
The registration link for presenters, co-authors, and attendees is: https://forms.gle/UxE8RDt8bGQvNHhj8
Cost to attend the conference
Presenters/co-authors listed on proposal submission: $0
Public/Others: $0
Acccess without borders and with reduced barriers, including financial, is of critical importance for AMOM! Which is why the conference is free. In lieu of registration fees, presenters and attendees are asked to make a donation to specified organizations if they are able. Some of the organizations/funding programs to which we recommend donations include:
- SFU Awards/Bursary/Scholarships for Indigenous Students, e.g. the First Nations, Metis, Inuit Student Association Endowments. visit: https://secure.give.sfu.ca/donate, and search Indigenous.
- APA Division 5 (Quantiative & Qualitative Methods). Division 5 curently has several awards, particularly those in the area of Qualitative Methods, which are currently unfunded. It would be terrific if we could receive donations to help support Award recipients of these Awards to travel to the APA Annual Confvention to receive their Awards at the Annual Division 5 Awards Ceremony. (c.f, https://www.apadivisions.org/division-5/awards). Please feel free to reach out on how to get in touch with the Division Financial Officer to make a donation.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference!
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