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Mitigating bias: promoting diversity and sustainable excellence in research
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 @ 11:00 am–1:00 pm
Joint seminar organized by the IRB Barcelona and IBEC Equality and Diversity Committee
Claartje Vinkenburg, VU University AmsterdamClaartje Vinkenburg, PhD, is associate professor of organizational behaviour and independent expert consultant. Dr Vinkenburg’s research activities, partly funded by the European Research Council, deal with gender and ethnic diversity in professional and academic careers as well as with sustainability in combining career and care.
This 2-hour seminar aims to explore and explain the concept, causes and consequences of implicit or unconscious bias and how it affects careers, workplace culture, and work-family reconciliation in research organizations. In addition, ways to effectively promote diversity and inclusion in research by learning how to mitigate bias in the scientific career progression will be addressed.
Open to all IBEC members and IRB Barcelona.
If you’d like to attend, please send an email to hr@ibecbarcelona.eu before 15:00h on February 23th (Remember to put your supervisor in CC).
