Connect and Collaborate at Research Community Forums

The SIOP Annual Conference has long facilitated the sharing of knowledge and new ideas. To build on that tradition, we are again offering Research Community Forums, an opportunity for individuals with similar interests to connect and experience meaningful research collaboration.

Five Forums will be offered as an add-on conference event on the afternoon of Wednesday, April 29, prior to the official start of the SIOP Annual Conference. 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. All conference registrants are welcome to attend.

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.
• Sustainability for People, the Planet, and Prosperity: This Forum centers on developing research ideas and partnerships to drive applied research projects that address sustainability in terms of people, planet, and prosperity. Supported by state-of-the-art overviews and examples from interdisciplinary panels, facilitated discussions, and structured brainstorming sessions, attendees will begin to develop actionable research ideas and form collaborative projects to address topics such as sustainable leadership, just transitions (to net zero but leaving nobody behind), gender equity, and universal access to decent work for sustainable livelihoods.
• 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.

You can register for a Forum when you register for the conference; there is an additional fee of $99 to attend a Forum. If you have already completed conference registration, you may add a Forum in My Registrations in Community Hub.

For more information, please visit the Research Community Forums webpage.