ReSearching Diversity

In this first-ever student takeover episode, Emma Adden, Ikram Tahiri, Celine Sebregts, and Loïs Nederveen from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Master’s in Educational Sciences) speak with Dayna-Lee Stewart, founder and director of the Black Austrian Youth Forum. She is an educational professional with a background in Educational Sciences from Vienna, Austria. We explored her career path, the ch...

In this episode, we talked to Ursula Moffitt who is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, in the USA.  PAST (00:02:42): Ursula describes her path into academia and her continuous struggles with the boundaries of particular academic disciplines, including psychology. PRESENT (00:11:33): We talk about a study from Quiles and colleagues (2023) about how young adults during the Covid...

In this episode, we talked to Elisabeth Kaneza who is a legal and political scholar and a community outreach officer at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZiM) in Berlin, Germany.  PAST (00:02:20): Elisabeth emphasizes the importance of equal rights and chances for all, the impact of racial discrimination that require structural solutions. She also describes her journey into academ...

In this episode, we listen to a conversation between Lysanne te Brinke (assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Milene Gonçalves (associate professor at the Technical University Delft). Both are leading members of the ambition “ Youth participation ” in Healthy Start, a consortium that aims to better understand and support the healthy development of all youths in the Netherlands....

In this bonus episode, we listen to Yara Toenders (fellow at Healthy Start / Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Wanda Tempelaar (clinical child and youth psychiatrist at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam). Both are members of the ambition “ Youth Mental Health and Well-being ” in Healthy Start, a consortium that aims to better understand and support the healthy development of all you...

In this bonus episode, we listen to a conversation between Reshmi Marhe (assistant professor at Erasmus University Rotterdam) and Laura van Duin (psychologist at De Nieuwe Kans, Rotterdam). Both are members of the ambition “ Youth Delinquency and Addiction ” in Healthy Start, a consortium that aims to better understand and support the healthy development of all youths in the Netherlands. PAST (00:...

In this episode, we talked to Ceren Abacıoğlu who is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  PAST (00:02:11): Ceren talks about the struggles of studying and working in another country, about adapting to new cultures and new working environments. She explains how she became interested in the concept of acculturation, meaning the changes that happen if people fro...

In this episode, we talked to Lisa Spanierman who is a professor of counseling and counseling psychology and associate dean for academic personnel and faculty success in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at the Arizona State University, U.S.  PAST (00:02:03): Lisa describes growing up in a so-called “White bubble” in New Jersey. She explains how living in a majority Black dorm during he...

In this episode, we spoke with Paul Gorski who is the founder of the Equity Literacy Institute, U.S.    PAST (00:01:47): Paul shares how during college years he developed an interest in social justice while being aware of his own privileged identities in academia. Later, when Paul was a professor, he also became interested in activist burnout , meaning the stress-related symptoms and illnesses tha...

In this episode, we spoke with Tabea Hässler who is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Zurich in Switzerland.    PAST (00:01:32): Tabea shares how as a high school student and activist, she launched a campaign against racism and homophobia after noticing that these topics were ignored at school. She explains how decorating the school overnight and bringing in speakers and press to speak agains...

In this episode, we spoke with Laura Taylor who is an Assistant Professor at the University College Dublin in Ireland.  PAST (00:02:00): Laura shares her incredible and winding path into academia, from being part of human rights and peace building work with NGO’s in Guatemala and Nepal, studying and teaching at university, and eventually pursuing a Ph. D. program in both peace studies and psycholo...

In this episode, we spoke with Sauro Civitillo who is an Assistant Professor at the European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.  PAST (00:02:15): Sauro shares his experiences as a “first-generation student”, meaning that he was the first one in his family to attend university and to follow an academic career. He talks about how his parents s...

In this episode, we talked to Tiffany Florvil who is an Associate Professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, United States. Our main topics are Black German history and the normalization of whiteness as well as the history of race and racism in Europe. PAST (00:02:10): Tiffany describes her own experiences with racism while studying in Germany and how it sparked her interest in Blac...

[GERMAN EPISODE] In this episode, we talked to Andreas Zick who is the Scientific Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence (IKG) and Professor at the Faculty of Educational Science at Bielefeld University, Germany. Our main topics are social identity theory and intergroup conflict, but also diversity in German scientific institutions and the link between re...

In this episode, we spoke with Gülseli Baysu who is a Lecturer at the Queen's University of Belfast, U.K. As a psychologist she focusses, among other things, on cultural diversity, discrimination, and Muslim minorities in Europe. In this episode we talk about the awareness of ethnic/racial discrimination and how it relates to youth well-being, and inequalities regarding Western and non-Western res...

In this episode, we talked to Josefina Bañales who is an Assistant Professor in the Community and Prevention Research Area at the University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC, U.S.). Our main topics are critical consciousness and how social scientists can learn ‘with’, ‘from’ and ‘from within’ marginalized communities through participatory action research .  PAST (00:02:03): Josefina describes her persona...

[GERMAN EPISODE] In dieser ersten deutschsprachigen Episode unseres Podcasts haben wir mit Prof. Dr. Karim Fereidooni über institutionelle Rassismuserfahrungen und Rassismuskritik in der deutschen Forschungs- und Bildungslandschaft gesprochen. Prof. Fereidooni ist Juniorprofessor für Didaktik der sozialwissenschaftlichen Bildung an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. VERGANGENHEIT (00:02:14) Prof. Fereid...

In this episode, we talked to Mehmet Day who is a researcher at the Verwey-Jonker Institute and a Ph. D. student at Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands). Our main topics are combining multiple cultural identities and how educational research and practice can benefit from one another. PAST (00:02:00): Mehmet tells us about his own experiences, about being the first researcher in his famil...

In this episode, we talked to Marta Miklikowska who is an associate professor of Psychology at Umeå University (Sweden). Our main topics are prejudice, intergroup contact, and how activism and progressive policies can improve the representation of women in academia.   PAST (00:01:35): Marta tells us about her own experiences with migration, prejudice, and the imposter syndrome in a male-dominated...

In this episode, we talked to Moin Syed who is a professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota (U.S.). Our main topics are gender identity and master narratives, gender socialization, academic practices in psychology, and the Open Science framework.   PAST (00:01:56): We learn how Moin turned his personal experience of being treated differently from others and his interest in identity and...

In this episode, we talk to Tendai Chitewere who is an associate professor of geography and environment at San Francisco State University (U.S.) and a visiting professor in the department of Inclusive Education at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Our main topics are proactive inclusion, environmental justice, and the chances and challenges for educators of color. PAST (00:02:20): We learn abou...

In this episode, we talk to Yudit Namer who is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Public Health at Bielefeld University (Germany). Our main topics are discrimination and othering and how they relate to the health of different generations of migrants. PAST (00:02:10): We learn how Yudit has been combining her different professional roles as therapist, researcher, and teacher. PRESENT (00:14...

In our first episode, we talk to Linda Juang who is a professor of Inclusive Education at the University of Potsdam (Germany). Our main topic is racial-ethnic socialization, meaning how parents communicate about race and ethnicity with their children. PAST (00:02:32): Linda describes her own path into higher education, how she was inspired to continue in academia by a lecturer of color, and how he...

Join a group of six women in social sciences in their aim to increase visibility of inspiring social scientists and of cutting-edge research focusing on ethnic, cultural, and migration-related diversity.