The surest way to both sustain and extend the work done by WOP as relates to the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is to train new generations of scholars and practitioners on the criticality of the goals. The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) has supported such training through its publications, its conference programming, its committee structure, and its mission, for over a decade. Even before being granted special consultative status with ECOSOC, SIOP's quarterly member publication, The Industrial-Organizational Psychologist (TIP), regularly included the work of Professor Stuart Carr and others on humanitarian topics. In 2015, TIP published an article offering guidance to WOP graduate programs on the process of becoming signatories to the United Nations Global Compact. The article included resources based on the experience of the program at Purdue University in becoming the first U.S. psychology graduate program to join the Global Compact. In another TIP article that same year, Ashley Hoffman offered insights on the incorporation of humanitarian work psychology into both graduate and undergraduate psychology classes. Efforts to support engagement with the Global Compact, and to highlight the relevance of the SDGs, are on-going, and find a ready audience in graduate students.


This presentation will focus on efforts made to broaden awareness of the SDGs and their relevance to WOP among student populations, and to support the integration of SDGs into both graduate and undergraduate psychology training. In addition to sharing key milestones and learning points related to SIOP's support of these efforts, we will describe facets of the SIOP United Nations committee that target enhanced student engagement. We will also offer a recent example of an undergraduate course focused on humanitarian work psychology and the SDGs, and lessons learned from that course's design and implementation.