Many employers consider diversity and inclusion to be important values to strive for. However, their good intentions often result in only limited progress towards creating a work environment where everyone has equal opportunities for advancement. Why does this happen and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Refugee Academy
‘The change comes from a small minority’ – An interview with Halleh Ghorashi
On November 9, 2021, Halleh Ghorashi receives the Impact Award 2021 for her research on refugees and diversity. Her research primarily focuses on the stories of refugees and migrants. The Impact Award is presented annually to renowned researchers or research … Continue reading
Halleh Ghorashi receives Impact Award 2021
Halleh Ghorashi (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Jeroen Kluck (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and Hergen Spits (University of Amsterdam and Amsterdam UMC) will receive the Impact Award 2021 this year. Every year the Impact Award is presented to renowned researchers or … Continue reading
Final Conference ‘Towards an Inclusive Work Environment! Insights from Work and Life Experience and Paradoxes from Practice’
Thursday, November 25, 2021, | 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Online and On-site at Hogeschool Inholland Amsterdam, Boelelaan 1109 How do you make an organization more inclusive when there’s a ‘colour-blind’ organizational culture? How do you address issues like … Continue reading
Winter School ‘Research-creation: merging the critical and the creative’
This course invites students to rethink and re-evaluate standard methods of thinking, knowing, doing, and sharing within academia. We will highlight artistic practice as research and the act of creation as a form of knowledge in and of itself. Continue reading
Impact Conversation “Shadow Game: The European Asylum Policy”
Moderator Margriet Vroomans (KRO-NCRV) discusses with filmmakers Els van Driel and Eefje Blankevoort, Member of European Parliament Tineke Strik (GroenLinks), and professor Halleh Ghorashi the traumatizing journey of the main characters in Shadow Game. Is the border violence they encountered … Continue reading
Exploitation Free City
In the recent “Invisible” research conducted by the Ombudsman Metropool Amsterdam, the living conditions and situation of undocumented migrants in Amsterdam and the Netherlands were examined. The research explicitly focused on the vulnerability of undocumented youth, migrant workers, and the … Continue reading
Bust the fixation on being different
Many progressive Dutch individuals, with good intentions regarding diversity, still struggle to make their living and working environments more diverse. This is due to a fixation on the notion of being different and the perceived disadvantage of individuals with a … Continue reading
How can we practice engaged science in times of COVID-19? – A conference call with committed scientists
Within a few weeks, COVID-19 has evolved into a global pandemic. Millions of people have been infected, and even more have been affected by the socio-economic measures taken to contain the pandemic. While the virus itself does not discriminate based … Continue reading
Creating space for disruption
In participation processes concerning public issues, inclusivity is frequently discussed. However, there is still a lot of ambiguity surrounding its specific meaning and implementation. That’s why the Knowledge Center for Participation at GovernEUR|Erasmus University Rotterdam has commissioned in-depth research on … Continue reading