Ayse Uskul was awarded with an Invitational Fellowship from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science to spend 6 weeks at the Kokoro Research Center, at Kyoto University, to start a collaboration with the social/cultural psychologist Dr Yukiko Uchida. As part of her Fellowship, Professor Uskul will be giving seminars and workshops to researchers and students. Professor Uskul will also conduct field work in rice farming and fishing villages in the northern parts of Kyoto.