Indigenous Psychology (IP) examines the impact of culture and other social processes on people’s intra-psychic processes, cognition and behaviour, beyond the boundaries of Western psychology. Southeast Asian psychology has long been under-represented in mainstream psychology, leaving indigenous ways of knowing disregarded.                         SEAIP hopes to bring together scholars from all over the globe to empower local psychologists in SEA regions to conduct indigenous and culturally-relevant research, that could widen the conceptual space in global psychological research. We also aim to include under-represented psychologists from less-developed countries in SEA regions, to amplify their voices and concerns for an equitable global psychology.  

                Thus, the first SEAIP meeting was launched virtually in 2021 by Monash University Malaysia’s Culture and Health Lab through a sponsorship by AASP (The Asian Association of Social Psychology). The two-day event featured two keynote speakers and 7 plenary speakers from prominent IP backgrounds. The event attracted around 100 abstract submissions from 16 countries, with 16 abstracts accepted for presentation at the conference. Awards totaling up to USD $600 were given to the top 3 outstanding full papers submitted for the Early Career Researchers Awards, while two seed grants worth over USD $2000 were awarded to two out of the four research clusters formed at the conference.