Conference details

Date and time

The WAOP Conference will be held on November 24, 2023. It is a 1-day conference, followed by a dinner in town.

Program

We are excited that the WAOP conference in Groningen is just around the corner, and we can't wait to welcome you to our vibrant city! In preparation, we are pleased to share the conference program with you.

Location

The WAOP Conference 2023 will be held in the Groninger Forum. It is located right in the heart of the city, around 17 minutes walk from Groningen Station. Please see the map for the precise location here (Nieuwe Markt 1, 9712 JG Groningen).

The Forum is a cultural center and multifunctional public space that has many things to offer. It houses a cinema, a play area, library, several cafés, and a restaurant with a wonderful rooftop terrace. It is the place to be Groningen and might also appeal to presenters who will travel with their families. Forum Wayfinder.

Expertises

We invite submissions from academics and practitioners interested in sharing the latest advancements in organizational psychology and closely related fields, such as organizational behavior, human resources, and interdisciplinary approaches to understanding employees and organizations. We also welcome applied projects that advance our collective understanding of work issues unique to Belgium and the Netherlands.

Conference format

This year, we will invite practitioners as a part of our program. We will feature two types of sessions. Besides the traditional research sessions, we will organize practitioner sessions that aim to facilitate a stronger relationship between researchers and practitioners in the field. Through our practical sessions, you will have the opportunity to present your research by highlighting the practical implications and engage in discussions at the intersection of theory and practice within the domains of work, organizational, and personnel psychology. When submitting your abstract, you can indicate whether you would like to be considered for a practitioner session. Researchers and practitioners will be matched based on their topics of interest. You will be notified about the matching by mid July 2023.

Keynote speaker

We are happy to announce that Prof. dr. Bettina S. Wiese, an expert on career transitions and self-management, will give a keynote on ‘Motives and goals of early-career scientists’.

Bettina S. Wiese (PhD in Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Germany) is a full professor of Psychology at the RWTH Aachen University (Germany). She is also an honorary professor at the Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK). Before starting her position at the RWTH, she had been working at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (Berlin, Germany), at the Technical University of Darmstadt (Germany), at the University of Zurich (Switzerland), and at the University of Basel (Switzerland). The overarching goal of her research is to better understand how people shape their careers and everyday life in the work and non-work domains. In particular, she has investigated parental leave uptake and occupational re-entry of mothers and fathers but also the selection and pursuit of career goals in early-career scientists. For her research, she has received several grants from institutions such as the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), and the German Research Council (DFG).

Best paper award & feedback on full papers

If you would like your research to be considered for the best paper award, please submit your full paper before October 1, 2023 to the waop2023 rug.nl. The evaluation criteria are: originality, theoretical contribution, methodological rigour, soundness of data-analysis, practical relevance, and quality of writing.

There is also the option to receive peer feedback on your full paper. This also requires the submission of your full paper by October 1, 2023. Signing up for feedback requires that you are willing to also provide feedback to another researcher’s full paper.