Embedding EDI: Students, Staff and City.

Professor Jo Duberley and Dr Anne de Graaf will jointly speak on the EDI research and initiatives from both institutions about embedding EDI for our students, staff, and cities. We will have a dialogue about the challenges on EDI in higher education, the impacts that are caused by the pandemic to our campuses and communities, and our vision of the collaborations between Amsterdam and Birmingham.

Speakers

Professor Joanne Duberley, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Equality, Diversity and Inclusion), University of Birmingham.

Jo joined the University of Birmingham in 2002. Prior to this she had held posts at Heriot Watt, Sheffield, Leeds and Sheffield Hallam Universities. She has held a wide variety of leadership posts whilst at Birmingham including, Director of undergraduate programme in Business and Management, Director of Postgraduate Research for College of Social Sciences, Director of Research for Birmingham Business School and Director of Research for the College of Social Sciences.

Central to her research is an interest in the concept of career. Her main contribution in this area has been to develop a more theoretically informed and contextually embedded understanding of career. In the last ten years she has developed research examining the impact of gender, ethnicity, social class and age on careers in a variety of contexts including defence, professional service organisations and the police in the UK. She co-directs the Work Inclusivity Research Centre with Dr Holly Birkett and has successfully won over £2 million of research funding to support her research. She publishes her work in journals such as Journal of Vocational Behaviour, Human Relations, Work Employment and Society and Gender Work and Organisation.

Dr Anne de Graaf, Chief Diversity Officer, University of Amsterdam.

Dr. Anne de Graaf has been the Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) since November 2017. Her roles include helping drive the process of cultural change at the UvA toward greater equity, diversity and inclusion. As CDO she is charged with identifying, stimulating, creating and facilitating initiatives both inside and outside the institution; including, for example, her advice on competency-based hiring processes for the UvA, but also for the VSNU and Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

Anne is also Senior Lecturer at Amsterdam University College (AUC), where she teaches “Human Rights Human Security” and “Peace Lab.” She was formerly Head of Studies, Academic Core, as well as Diversity & Outreach Coordinator at AUC, where she has taught since 2014.

Anne holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. Her research focuses on marginalized groups, as well as peace and conflict studies, and explores the role of voice—specifically young people’s—as a means of claiming agency in peacebuilding and conflict. She currently conducts research in the field of Indigenous rights and is working with the Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla tribes in eastern Oregon. She is an award-winning author of over 80 books, with 5 million sold worldwide. Her teen and adult novels (fiction based on fact) explore themes such as child soldiers and AIDS survival. She has traveled extensively to post-conflict areas throughout sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and Europe, interviewing for her books and articles. She has also lectured and guest taught at universities in the Netherlands, South Africa and the U.S., including West Point Military Academy and her alma mater, Stanford University.

Additional Information.

Accessibility.

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