The Benefits, Challenges and Opportunities of LGBTIQ+ Employee Resource Groups

Interested in learning about the benefits, challenges, and opportunities of LGBTIQ+ employee resource groups, but not able to attend our symposium on May 19th? Fear not! Workplace Pride has compiled all materials for you in one handy overview (see the post below).

We look back on an insightful event, thanks to the contributions of the audience, Michiel Kolman 🏳️‍🌈, Anna Einarsdottir, Kshitij Mor, David Pollard, Linn ten Haaf, Erik Poolman, and thanks to the organizing skills of Kshitij Mor, Paula Hoffmann, Chenhao Zhou, Eva Jaspers, and Christine Holtkamp.

Stay tuned for the next Academia@WorkplacePride event!

In collaboration with Academia@Workplace Pride, members of the SCOOP Sustainable Cooperation Program and EU COST project on LGBTI inequalities.

Program: https://lnkd.in/eVEm_Wnv

Festival for diversity and inclusion

On Tuesday 24 May, New Scientist together with Karima Arichi, Stadsdeel Oost director of the municipality of Amsterdam, organized the event  Niks is ons vreemd: festival van diversiteit en inclusie. The event took place in the Royal Institute for the Tropics and I had the honour to be part of it and talk about about LGBT+ workplace inclusion. An afternoon with valuable contributions by Abdelhamid Idrissi, Adwoa Bobo, Assamaual Saidi Rabah, Rosie Zheng, Aynouk Tan, Geo van Dam, Asis Aynan en Vincent Bijlo.

Photo credit: Bob Bronshoff

D&I Masterclass

One of the things that make my work so enjoyable and rewarding, is the active exchange between science and practice. Over the past weeks, I had the opportunity to experience this again during the three-part masterclass ‘Looking at D&I policy through a different lens', in which Melissa Vink, Wiebren Jansen and Lina Senen teamed up with highly motivated and knowledgeable participants from different sectors to work on D&I policy cases from their own workplace in an evidence-based and systematic way.

I am once again immensely inspired by the expertise and enthusiasm of the participants. Through their active approach, all participants really brought their D&I policy approach to the next level. Many thanks for your commitment and openness, Aurora Guds, Liesbeth van de Garde, Tessa Meesters, en mr. Chantal Jansen. I learned at least as much from you as you learned from us, and I am already looking forward to the next cycle!

Would you like to know more about this masterclass? Click here.

#Inclusie #Diversiteit #NederlandseInclusiviteitsMonitor

Privacy and D&I Policy Guide

Information about employees’ sexual orientation and gender identity is important for monitoring potential inequality at work and in developing and assessing diversity and inclusion policy. At the same time, it is important to handle sensitive information about employees with care. Information about a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity is personal data and subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and national implementation acts. This legislation is intended to protect people’s privacy.

To help D&I officers navigate these issues, Stefan Kulk, Marthe van der Velde, Martine Veldhuizen and I created this handout that gives D&I officers an overview of the most important rules to follow in order to avoid pitfalls when developing and rolling out diversity and inclusion policy.

Future of Work Seminar Series: Inclusion at Work

How do you ensure lasting diversity in the workplace? And how do you create a situation in which everyone can function optimally? Together with Eva Jaspers, I shared relevant insights from research and practical tips in this Future of Work video.

Creating support for D&I policy

It was a great pleasure to present our findings on support for D&I policy in organizations at Radboud University earlier this month!

The effectiveness of D&I policies strongly depends on the extent to which they are supported by employees within the organization, but how do you create such support? This was the central question of the stakeholder event that we organized in collaboration with with SER Diversity at Work and the Netherlands Inclusivity Monitor. For a summary of the discussion, see here.

Stay tuned for our handout on creating support for D&I policy.

Photo credit: Sacha Verheij

Disability inclusion at work

I was recently alerted to this excellent guide to disability inclusion at work. Created by Ben, “The definitive guide to disability inclusion in the workplace”  provides in-depth insights on what accessibility means and gives concrete tips on how to create a work climate that is inclusive of people with a disability.

NIM Benchmark Analysis 2019-2021

On March 8, we presented the latest results from our benchmark analysis on the Netherlands Inclusiveness Monitor data. In this analysis, we investigated where Dutch organizations stand in the field of D&I policy, and mapped out the challenges and opportunities of an inclusive climate. Our findings and recommendations are summarized in a factsheet, that we discussed with the participating organizations during a fruitful meeting. This meeting was part of the project "It has to work: Inclusiveness in the labor market through synergy between science and practice" and was made possible by the Goldschmeding Foundation.

Funded research on the unseen and unheard

We are excited to announce that our project “The Power of One” has been granted the Unusual Collaborations (CUCo) grant for the second time in a row, this time for the period 2022 - 2023. Together with Daniel Lakens (TU/e), Marianne Boes (UMC Utrecht), Martine Veldhuizen (UU), Cristiana Santos Teixeira (UU), Özge Bilgili (UU), Mathias Funk (TU/e), and Merel van Goch (UU), we aim to understand why certain groups of people remain unseen and unheard in research and outreach efforts. As such, we hope to find ways to collect data on people currently not included in abstract categories, datasets, or algorithms and we will thus improve understanding of the mismatch between the studied sample and the underlying population, and formulate suggestions to make data collection efforts more inclusive.

For the CUCo Annual Report click here.

Purple Friday Breakfast session

Today, on Purple Friday, we show our solidarity with LGBTI+ people by wearing the colour purple at school and university. To mark the occasion, Workplace Pride in collaboration with Elsevier and Stichting Student Pride Nederland hosted a breakfast webinar to whichI contributed, together with Dr. Michiel Kolman, the Workplace Pride Co-Chair, Vinod Subramaniam, President of the Executive Board of Twente University, and Ruben Hoving and Aditya Srivastava from Deloitte.

We discussed Purple Friday and it's importance as well as how it fits into a corporate or academic setting.

For those who slept in, you can watch the video of the session HERE