Collaborate with Colleagues at Research Community Forums

All attendees of the 2026 SIOP Annual Conference are invited to register for Research Community Forums, a unique opportunity for individuals with similar interests to connect and experience meaningful research collaboration.

Four Forums will be held 1 to 5:30 p.m. CT Wednesday, April 29. They will consist of a mix of invited content (e.g., talks or posters identified via the submission process below) and networking/brainstorming activities to generate future research ideas and collaborations.

This year’s Forums include:

• AI Applied to Selection: The goal of this Forum is to promote discussion and incubate new ideas among AI researchers who are interested in addressing and highlighting challenges related to implementing AI (e.g., LLMs, NLP, computer vision) in employee selection, including selecting candidates, ensuring fairness, generating assessments, and candidates automatically completing interviews with AI, as well as novel issues not yet discussed.
• Inclusive Workplace Practices: Creating truly inclusive workplaces requires more than good intentions. People processes that promote equity across the employee lifecycle require thoughtful design and implementation. This Forum brings together researchers and practitioners to explore evidence-based strategies for inclusive practices from recruitment to offboarding and everything in between. Sample topics include designing accessible assessments, uncovering and addressing bias in performance management systems, ensuring equity in high potential talent identification, assessing the impact of population-specific initiatives, and much more.
• Applied Research in Worker Well-Being: This Forum explores how applied research can more effectively inform and enhance worker mental health and well-being. Researchers and practitioners will examine the current state of the science, identify shared challenges, and discuss opportunities to advance evidence-based strategies for creating healthy, supportive work environments. Discussions will integrate insights from both perspectives, highlighting pathways for stronger research–practice collaboration. The session aims to foster meaningful dialogue, generate research ideas, and facilitate research partnerships that will increase the real-world impact of research on worker health and well-being.
• Leadership in a New Era: This Forum centers on developing research ideas and partnerships to drive research projects that address leadership in a new era. The Forum will begin with a discussion of the current state of leadership research and the new challenges leaders face today. A central feature of the session will be a series of brief presentations in which attendees share their own research projects, creating a broad foundation of ideas and perspectives. Building on these presentations, facilitated brainstorming sessions will help participants generate actionable research ideas and form collaborative projects on topics such as leading human and nonhuman teams, developing trust in polarized environments, navigating crises that cross organizational and national boundaries, and leveraging technology and data for adaptive and inclusive leadership.

If you have already completed conference registration, you may add a Forum to your conference plans in My Registrations in Community Hub. For assistance, please contact siop@siop.org

Learn more at the Research Community Forums webpage.