The Society for Research in Adult Development (SRAD) was formed in 1981. It held its first symposium that year at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 on the 15th floor of William James Hall for one day. It has met yearly ever since for one and a half or two days. Its email listserve has around 300 members. The topics of presentations/poster/discussions center on Positive Adult Development

Positive Adult Development

Positive Adult Development is one of the four major forms of adult developmental study that can be identified. The other three forms are directionless change, stasis, and decline...

. For many of the early years, edited books resulted from some of the papers given at the symposium. After 1990, with the advent of the Journal of Adult Development, many went there, especially in special issues.

It now meets yearly in the premeeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). In the year that SRCD does not meet, it meets with the American Educational Research Association

American Educational Research Association

The American Educational Research Association, or AERA, was founded in 1916 as a professional organization representing educational researchers in the United States and around the world....

(AERA)

The homepage of this organization is at http://adultdevelopment.org/