In this exciting new podcast episode, we explore the ever-evolving landscape of film and content creation for social media, all while tackling the nuanced and often challenging subjects surrounding masculinity in the online sphere. Karam Nwilati lends insight and his unique perspective to this crucial conversation, shedding light on the intricate and sometimes uncharted territories of modern self-expression and identity.
In these blog posts, the author explains Social Psychology terms and theories and adds some examples from research.
These terms and theories help social psychologists understand how people perceive others, interact with them, and make judgments about the social world and its members.
Today we will explain what the Ecological Theory is.
I really like the Situated Expectancy Value Theory (SEVT for short) by Jacque Eccles and colleagues because this framework seems to explicitly consider not only individual’s personal characteristics, but also the complexity of other sources of information in shaping choices and decisions – which had been helpful for my work in exploring gendered pathways of students. As I have been reading and pondering extensively over the past two (almost three) years on the Expectancy Value Theory to guide my research, I realized I could perhaps use it to reflect on my own career options too.
The first study ever to test absorption levels of menstrual products using blood was conducted this year. The study was published in August 2023 and for the first time it has compared absorbencies of different menstrual products, including tampons, pads, cups, discs and period underwear, using blood. Previous studies have usually used water or saltwater for testing, despite the fact that periods are more viscous and could contain secretions and endometrial tissue. These differences could have led to inaccurate absorbency evaluations and this is exactly what the authors of the study found.
Men are underrepresented in women-dominated caring professions worldwide. This underrepresentation is particularly extreme in the field of early childhood education and care, such as childcare work. Despite this, both the general public and academic researchers remain relatively uninterested in men’s underrepresentation in early childhood education and care. So, why are there fewer men in childcare work than women, and why are people uninterested in this underrepresentation?
The vast majority of organisations across Europe and North America use brief statements on their websites as a means to demonstrate their dedication to promoting diversity. Nonetheless, the definition of diversity can vary vastly between organisations. A common approach is to categorise diversity through demographics such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and disability.
Two years ago, for my first blog post, I discussed how to correctly write about the trans and gender diverse community, which has historically been represented in a negative and discriminatory light in the media. I illustrated the guidelines provided by GLAAD – an association founded by journalists and writers to protest defamatory and sensationalized HIV and AIDS coverage in the 1980s – in their 10th edition of the GLAAD Media Reference Guide (2016). However, just recently, TGEU Transgender Europe – a trans-led non-profit for the rights and wellbeing of trans people – published a new Trans Media Guide.
In our first post, we wrote about the widespread nature of abuse of power and harassment in the university context. But why is this whole issue so problematic? What are the consequences on an individual and structural level?
In this episode, Hanna and Shannon have spoken about potential differences between being a researcher and activist and the question of whether they define themselves as activists. They’ve also spoken about the role of their own personal questions and considerations around doing this work and how questioning your own place in the research can be a form of engagement.
This summer I got the opportunity to go to my first academic conference. The conditions for participating, first a short paper, later a full paper, were rather challenging for me. Getting “the go” for participating therefore left me with both, a feeling of being proud for having been accepted, and curious for what actually happens at a conference…
In these blog posts, the author explains Social Psychology terms and theories and adds some examples from research. These terms and theories help social psychologists understand how people perceive others, interact with them, and make judgments about the social world and its members.
Today we will explain what Resilience is.
In this blog, the author talks about some key terms that one would often come across in postcolonial feminist readings. Before we dive into those key terms, it is pertinent to first understand what postcolonial and postcolonial feminism means. As the term ‘post’ indicates, postcolonialism has a chronological meaning which is often interpreted as after being colonized or a post-independence time.
In Part 2 of the interview with our ESRs, Andrea Kocis, Kezia Olive, Hanna Szabo, Serena Haines, Tatjana Graf, Shannon O’Rourke and Ana-Nzinga Weiss talk about the main focus of their research as well as reveal what they found especially intriguing or worth mentioning during their work.
In this podcast, Hanna Szabó (she/her) and Shannon O’Rourke (she/her) discuss how authenticity features in their PhD research. While Hanna and Shannon are researching different social worlds of LGBTQ people, both of their work engages with questions around what it means to show up as your “full self” in a number of different contexts.
According to recent studies, approximately 60% of employees and students at universities experience sexual and/or gender-related harassment (UNI-SAFE). A look at the statistical predictors of harassment reveals that the numbers in the university context are not randomly high.
Rosandra has recently completed her PhD in social cognitive psychology at the University of Trieste, Italy, under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Carnaghi and she has begun a postdoctoral position under Prof. Mauro Bianchi.
In this interview, our ESRs Yirou Fang, Mary Ann Ciosk, Vladislav Krivoshchekov, Sofia Elena Bracco, Clara Plückelmann, Rasika Mahajan and Federica Case talk about the main focus of their research as well as reveal what they found especially intriguing or worth mentioning during their work.
As I am in the reporting period of my non-academic secondment, let me share my reflections on how much the opportunity benefited me as a growing researcher: I was challenged to re-imagine what it means to do research. Let me tell you the story.
Imagine that you want to buy a toy for a child. You get into a toy store and a toy store employee asks if they can help you. What information would you provide in order to find the best toy within the planned budget? Child’s age, interests… and probably their gender?
We, that is Tatjana Graf and Rasika Mahajan, attended a workshop on “doing feminist, gender, and diversity research in and around organizations” organised by Aalto University in Helsinki in March 2023. As we found ourselves discussing and exchanging inspiring content also after arriving back in our home university, we want to share our reflections in this blog post.
