Today, Belle Derks and I kicked off our new bachelor course “Making Diversity Work: Building Inclusive Organizations.” Approximately 120 advanced bachelor students will learn about the benefits as well as the challenges of building diverse and inclusive organisations. The course is grounded in social and organisational psychology. In addition, students are introduced to a multidisciplinary approach to diversity and inclusion to gain a multilevel understanding of how to promote D&I at the institutional level, the experiential level, and the symbolic level). In work groups, students will analyze existing D&I initiatives and develop a theoretically sound and evidence-based approach to change these. Students will also practice with effective ways to manage and stimulate D&I in their own work teams.
