We have reached our objective, albeit in a five year as opposed to a three year time frame in this mini budget. This is excellent news. The lobby included a wide range of interests.
Psychology is the only discipline with researchers well established across the three councils.
Another key group was the private sector. The business community has been supportive of the lobby because they highly value the skills of social scientists and humanists in their companies. One of the advantages that CPA has in lobbying for any one of the councils is that we can show that we have scientists in non related domains supporting the positions. As important, we can also point to practitioners who strongly support research. They do so because they use this research.