Biography

MARC H. BORNSTEIN is President of the Society for Research in Child Development. He holds a B.A. from Columbia College, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University, and honorary doctorates from the University of Padua and University of Trento. Bornstein has held faculty positions at Princeton University and New York University as well as visiting academic appointments in Munich, London, Paris, New York, Tokyo, Bamenda (Cameroon), Seoul, Trento, Santiago (Chile), Bristol, Oxford, and the Institute for Fiscal Studies, London. Bornstein is Editor Emeritus of Child Development and founding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice. He has administered both Federal and Foundation grants, sits on the editorial boards of several professional journals, is a member of scholarly societies in a variety of disciplines, and consults for governments, foundations, universities, publishers, the media, and UNICEF. Bornstein has published widely in experimental, methodological, comparative, developmental, and cultural science as well as neuroscience, pediatrics, and aesthetics.

1-002 - Research in Child Development and Society: Our Journey

Session Type: Presidential Address

Integrative Statement

The theme I pursue focuses on the multi-layered journeys of life and scholarship. Together, we will halt at the following ports of call.
Research: SRCD is our professional association, and the first standard of our Society is research. We are scientists -- explorers of sorts -- and our job is to ask questions never knowing where our efforts will take us. It is simultaneously sobering and riveting to recognize that we trailblaze paths forward where none has previously existed, and we travel to places no one else has ever been. We do not know exactly what our journey will be like nor what our destination will look like once we have arrived. However, we recognize that our mission demands proper preparations, and along the way overcoming impediments and challenges and being open to course corrections when our assumptions are questioned.
Child Development: Our journey celebrates multiple processes of charting life-cycle trajectories and hinges on individual positive characteristics.
Society: Our journey must be ever vigilant to present circumstances and anticipate future horizons; the purposes of our journey must be governed by relevance and meaningful values and principles; and our journey requires sharing significant lessons learned. Finally, every journey is personal, but every journey involves collections of people who make the journey a success. Journeys such as ours proceed in cycles – as one iteration is completed, another soon begins.

Sub Unit

• Special Events

Speaker

• Marc H. Bornstein, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development & Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, UK