In this podcast, ESR Rasika Mahajan has interviewed Dr. Bareerah Hafeez Hoorani, Asst. Professor at Radboud University and they unpack postcolonial feminism based on their own experiences and identities as South Asian women, and their journey with rediscovering themselves, their roots and their historical past. They deconstruct oppression, and talk about the connection between the past and the present as a result of colonial encounters. They discuss  how this lens can be incorporated into methodology in order to conduct responsible research.

In this video, ESR Sofia Bracco illustrates reading recommendations on gender-related literature by G-VERSITY supervisors. Professors Yvonne Benschop, Peter Hegarty, Carola Richter, and Marie Gustafsson Sendén share the texts that changed the way they think about gender research and should be read by anyone working in the field:

In this podcast, ESR Clara Plückelmann interviews researcher Ali Amiri about the challenges and pitfalls of adapting psychological measures to different cultural contexts. In the podcast Ali provides insight into his work. He describes differences in cultural expressions of emotion and discusses why simply translating measures into another language is not sufficient for adapting them to different cultural contexts.

Welcome to the Social Psychology Glossary!
In these posts, I will explain Social Psychology terms and theories and add 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. These psychological processes can impact well-being and decision-making: being aware of their existence is a key factor that helps individuals and society to move towards gender diversity, gender equality, and equality in general. Today we will explain what Attribution is.

In this podcast episode, ESRs Vladislav Krivoshchekov and Serena Haines discuss their associations with masculinity, the goals of their research and the importance of research on masculinity.

From a very early age children develop awareness about social categories and groups and learn to categorise themselves and others into these groups. This categorization is assumed to be one of the ways to organise the world and reduce complexity and uncertainty. However, it could also be a basis for stereotypes, prejudices and in-group bias. In-group bias is a tendency for people to favour and give preferential treatment to individuals who belong to the same group as they do, over the ones who belong to different groups. 

Van der Bruggen, Madeleine & Grubb, Amy (2014): A review of the literature relating to rape victim blaming: An analysis of the impact of observer and victim characteristics on attribution of blame in rape cases. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.avb.2014.07.008

As a qualitative researcher investigating the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) people in leadership, it is vital that I am aware of how my approach to this research impacts the findings of this project. In this blog post, I’ll go through some of my own practices and tips for conducting qualitative, semi-structured interviews and treating participants with care and respect.

In my last post I introduced you to the term intersectionality and explained how the entanglement of gender and ‘race’ influenced old U.S.-American stereotypes about Black women. As I have pointed out, these stereotypes developed during times of slavery and segregation in the U.S. However, with times also social discourses change and while these old stereotypes are still influential today, new images have found their way into the public imaginary of Black women.

Ever since I started my academic journey, I have struggled with many things despite being passionate about research and pursuing an academic career. In this post, I want to talk about how we ask research questions. 

As a PHD student supervised by Sabine Sczesny and Peter Hegarty, I had the opportunity to be invited to the G-Versity Summer School in Berlin. What an honour to be part of a high-profile ESR-program – even if only for a week! It was a unique opportunity to meet other PHD students who are also involved in research on gender, to network, learn from each other and benefit from exciting lectures.