Description: The 2-hour online inspiration session on (gender) bias in research performing organizations. The session aims to be an eye-opener, to help raise awareness on what bias is, what its effects are and why it results in cumulative (dis)advantage in careers. You will discuss interactively how bias plays out in performance evaluation (in selection and promotion), in team work and workplace cultures, as well as work-care reconciliation. Some insights into bias mitigation will be provided, as a starting point for increasing competence in dealing with bias.  

Language: English 

Trainer: dr Claartje Vinkenburg - works as an independent expert consultant and is affiliated with VU Amsterdam as a visiting fellow (SBE Management & Organization Studies and Amsterdam Business Research Institute). From 2001 to 2018, Claartje was an assistant and associate professor with the same department. Claartje studied Social Psychology at the University of Groningen. Her academic research, partly funded by the European Research Council via a coordination and support action, deals with gender and ethnic diversity in professional and academic careers. She critically explores the impact of implicit bias, normative beliefs, and discursive practices on career systems, patterns, and outcomes to promote diversity and inclusion. 

Time and place: 13 October 2021, 15.00 – 17.00 CEST, online, MS Teams 

Registration: deadline 10 October 2021, link to registration. 

Funding: The ACT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 788204.