Lab News
Check back regularly to see what the team has been up to!
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August 2024
Linh Pham and Max Miller joined the lab as PhD students!
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July 2024
Lily Whitehair presented a poster titled "Diversity Initiatives and the Threat Response of White Women" at the 2024 Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) Poster Presentation.
June 2024
Lily Whitehair joined the lab for the Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP). Welcome, Lily!
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April 2024
Teri Kirby and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at Sex Roles: "Sex Wars and TERF Wars: For Whom and What Should Feminists Fight?"
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At MPA in Chicago, IL:
-Austin Zeng presented a poster titled, "How Broadening Diversity Impacts White Americans' Organizational Perceptions"
-Junming Zhang gave a presentation titled, "Are Intersectional Diversity Initiatives Identity Safety Cues for White Women?"
Teri Kirby was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure!
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March 2024
Teri Kirby received the 2024 HHS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Science Faculty Paper Award from the HHS Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Science Consortium at Purdue University.
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February 2024
Junming Zhang received a Graduate Research Innovation Award from the Psychological Sciences Department at Purdue University.
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At SPSP in San Diego, CA:
-Abi Click presented a poster poster titled, "Understanding and Defining Cultural Appropriation"
-Austin Zeng presented a poster titled, "How Broadening Diversity Impacts White Americans' Organizational Perceptions"
-Junming Zhang presented two posters titled,
"Threatened by Intersectionality? Examining White Women's Perceptions of Intersectional Diversity Initiatives"
"Who Counts as Diverse? The Strategic Broadening and Narrowing of Diversity"
-Junming Zhang was invited as a speaker at the Intersectionality Round Table
-Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled, "Colorblindness Motivates Support for Belonging Initiatives Among Dominant Groups"
-Nicole Russell Pascual gave a presentation titled, "The Insidious Costs of Telling Women to 'Lean In'"
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January 2024
Nicole Russell Pascual successfully defended her dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Russell Pascual!!
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Junming Zhang and Teri Kirby had a manuscript accepted for publication at Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology: "Who Counts as Diverse? The Strategic Broadening and Narrowing of Diversity" Congratulations Junming!
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December 2023
Nicole Russell Pascual and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology: "Disentangling the Nuances of Diversity Ideologies"
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November 2023
Junming Zhang gave a talk at the Purdue University Social Psychology Colloquium on intersectional diversity initiatives!
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October 2023
Abi Click received an Office of Undergraduate Research Professional Development Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Abi!
August 2023
Teri Kirby and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at the European Journal of Social Psychology: "To Conceal or Reveal: Identity-Conscious Diversity Ideologies Facilitate Sexual Minority Identity"
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Nicole Russell Pascual accepted a position as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan under the mentorship of Dr. Denise Sekaquaptewa! Congratulations Nicole!
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Abi Click presented a poster titled "Understanding and Defining Cultural Appropriation" at the 2023 summer research symposium.
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July 2023
Austin Zeng joined the lab as the lab coordinator!
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At the Annual Meeting for the European Association of Social Psychology in Krakow, Poland:
-Edwina Wong gave a presentation titled, "Internally versus externally focused diversity interventions for women"
-Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled, "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity"
-Nicole Russell Pascual gave a presentation titled, "The insidious costs of telling women to lean in"
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June 2023
Abi Click joins the lab for a summer LSAMP research assistantship. Welcome, Abi!
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Teri Kirby received a LGBT+ Inclusion in STEM grant from Royal Society of Chemistry + Science & Innovation Network with Ioana Latu, Rhiannon Turner, and Teresa McCormack.
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Teri Kirby received a Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Award from the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund at Purdue University.
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Teri Kirby and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: "The Dilution of Diversity: Ironic Effects of Broadening Diversity"
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May 2023
Nicole Russell Pascual presented a poster titled, "Disentangling the nuances of diversity ideologies" at Diversity in Organizations, Brussels, Belgium.
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Teri Kirby and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at the Journal for Personality and Social Psychology: "The role of intraminority relations in perceptions of cultural appropriation"
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April 2023
Casey McMahon presented a poster titled, "Do changing demographics lead to broadened diversity initiatives?" at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, USA.
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Shannon Sturt presented a poster titled, "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity" at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
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February 2023
At SPSP in Atlanta, GA:
-Junming Zhang presented a poster titled, "Hometown diversity and race essentialism: The role of interracial friendship quality"
-Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled, "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity"
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January 2023
Teri Kirby and colleagues published a paper at Social Psychological and Personality Science titled, "Mind the gender gap: Parental leave policies, gender equality, cultural value orientation, and the intended uptake of parental leave in 37 countries"
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December 2023
Nicole Russell Pascual and Teri Kirby had a manuscript accepted for publication at Frontiers in Psychology: Personality and Social Psychology: "Disentangling the Nuances of Diversity Ideologies"
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November 2023
Junming Zhang gave a talk at the Purdue University Social Psychology Colloquium on intersectional diversity initiatives!
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October 2023
Abi Click received an Office of Undergraduate Research Professional Development Grant from the Office of Undergraduate Research. Congratulations Abi!
August 2023
Teri Kirby and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at the European Journal of Social Psychology: "To Conceal or Reveal: Identity-Conscious Diversity Ideologies Facilitate Sexual Minority Identity"
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Nicole Russell Pascual accepted a position as postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan under the mentorship of Dr. Denise Sekaquaptewa! Congratulations Nicole!
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Abi Click presented a poster titled "Understanding and Defining Cultural Appropriation" at the 2023 summer research symposium.
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July 2023
Austin Zeng joined the lab as the lab coordinator!
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At the Annual Meeting for the European Association of Social Psychology in Krakow, Poland:
-Edwina Wong gave a presentation titled, "Internally versus externally focused diversity interventions for women"
-Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled, "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity"
-Nicole Russell Pascual gave a presentation titled, "The insidious costs of telling women to lean in"
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June 2023
Abi Click joins the lab for a summer LSAMP research assistantship. Welcome, Abi!
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Teri Kirby received a LGBT+ Inclusion in STEM grant from Royal Society of Chemistry + Science & Innovation Network with Ioana Latu, Rhiannon Turner, and Teresa McCormack.
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Teri Kirby received a Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Award from the Ross-Lynn Research Scholar Fund at Purdue University.
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Teri Kirby, Nicole Russell Pascual, and Laura Hildebrand had a manuscript accepted for publication at the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin: "The Dilution of Diversity: Ironic Effects of Broadening Diversity"
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May 2023
Nicole Russell Pascual presented a poster titled, "Disentangling the nuances of diversity ideologies" at Diversity in Organizations, Brussels, Belgium.
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Teri Kirby and colleagues had a manuscript accepted for publication at the Journal for Personality and Social Psychology: "The role of intraminority relations in perceptions of cultural appropriation"
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April 2023
Casey McMahon presented a poster titled, "Do changing demographics lead to broadened diversity initiatives?" at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, USA.
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Shannon Sturt presented a poster titled, "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity" at the Purdue Undergraduate Research Conference, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA.
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February 2023
At SPSP in Atlanta, GA:
-Junming Zhang presented a poster titled, "Hometown diversity and race essentialism: The role of interracial friendship quality"
-Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled, "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity"
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January 2023
Teri Kirby and colleagues published a paper at Social Psychological and Personality Science titled, "Mind the gender gap: Parental leave policies, gender equality, cultural value orientation, and the intended uptake of parental leave in 37 countries"
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November 2022
Teri Kirby and colleagues published a paper at Political Psychology titled, "Gendered self-views across 62 countries: A test of competing models"
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Teri Kirby gave an invited talk for the Purdue University Industrial/Organizational Psychology Colloquium titled, "The who and how of diversity"
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September 2022
Teri Kirby gave an invited talk for the Critical Conversations series at Purdue University titled, Building inclusive spaces"
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August 2022
Junming Zhang joined the lab as a PhD student!
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Teri Kirby and colleagues published a paper at Behavioral Research Methods titled "Best research practices for using the Implicit Association Test".
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July 2022
Casey McMahon joined the lab as the lab coordinator!
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July 2022
Teri Kirby published a chapter in Leading with diversity, equity and inclusion titled "Diversity Approaches in Organizations: A Leadership Perspective".
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May 2022
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "The dilution of diversity: Ironic effects of broadening diversity" at the Duck Conference on Social Cognition.
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Edwina Wong and Teri Kirby published a paper at Frontiers in Psychology titled, "Intersectional invisibility in women's diversity initiatives".
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April 2022
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled, "Ironic effects of broadening diversity" at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, USA.
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Teri Kirby published a paper at European Journal of Social Psychology titled "Bisexual erasure: Perceived attraction patterns of bisexual women and men"
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January 2022
Teri Kirby has joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology!
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December 2021
Teri Kirby discussed her research on the erasure of bisexual men on the Bisexual Brunch podcast. Listen here!
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November 2021
Teri Kirby published a paper at Social Psychological and Personality Science titled "Combating bisexual erasure: The correspondence of implicit and explicit sexual identity".
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September 2021
Teri Kirby and colleagues published a paper at Archives of Sexual Behavior titled "Born this way–or not? The relationship between essentialism and sexual minorities' LGBTQ+ identification and belonging"
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July 2021
Nicole Russell Pascual successfully passed her dissertation proposal! Congratulations Nicole!
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June 2021
Teri Kirby published a paper at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin titled "Person-Message fit: racial identification moderates the benefits of multicultural and colorblind diversity approaches".
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May 2021
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "Identity-conscious diversity messages facilitate sexual identity disclosure among sexual minorities" at the LGBTQI+ Workplace Inclusion Conference at Leiden University.
In collaboration with MoreThanNow, Nicole Russell Pascual was awarded funding from the ESRC for a project examining how to frame flexible working options in job advertisements to benefit women and those with caring responsibilities.
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April 2021
Begum Cakmak started her PhD!
Teri Kirby published an article for the SPSP blog, titled "How do bisexual people see themselves?"
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March 2021
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "Unpacking the nuances of diversity management" as part of the University of Southampton’s Psychology Seminar Series.
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February 2021
Edwina Wong presented a poster titled "Racialized needs for successful women’s initiatives" at SPSP.
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "The symbolic value of identity-focused space" at the SPSP annual meeting.
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January 2021
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "Unpacking the nuances of diversity management" as part of the Department of Management and Organizations Seminar series at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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December 2020
Nicole Russell Pascual started her new role as Research Coordinator for the lab's ESRC grant.
Teri Kirby published an article for the SPSP blog titled “Who really uses safe spaces anyway?”
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November 2020
Teri Kirby was interviewed by Faction Films on the effects of diversity training for a documentary film.
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October 2020
Teri Kirby & Marco Silva-Rego published a paper at European Journal of Social Psychology titled “Colorblind and multicultural diversity strategies create identity management pressure”.
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September 2020
Nicole Russell Pascual finished her Master's with a Dean’s Commendation and started her PhD. Congratulations Nicole!
Teri Kirby published a paper at Social Psychological and Personality Science titled “The symbolic value of ethnic spaces”.
Teri Kirby & Antonia Sudkæmper published a paper at Psychological Bulletin titled “The who, when, and why of the glass cliff phenomenon: A meta-analysis of appointments to precarious leadership positions”.
Teri Kirby gave a talk titled “The nuances of effective diversity management” at the UK Parliament Diversity & Inclusion Seminar series.
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Teri Kirby received a Small Research Grant from the British Academy / Leverhulme Trust with Thekla Morgenroth.
July 2020
Teri Kirby's data blitz titled “Identity conscious-diversity messages facilitate sexual identity disclosure among sexual minorities” was accepted to the annual meeting of the ISPP in Berlin (unfortunately cancelled due to COVID-19).
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Several lab members' presentations were accepted to the 19th general meeting of the EASP in Krakow (postponed due to COVID-19).
Joshua Ng: "Acculturation orientations shape international students’ experiences of restorativeness within socially distinct study spaces"
Sabrina Spangsdorf: "How might adolescent ambition be gendered? Developing a multifaceted model of ambition"
Edwina Wong: "Intersectional needs for successful gender diversity interventions"
Teri Kirby, Marco Silva-Rego, Cordelia Powell, Hexin Ji, Greg Eckhartt, & Ines Huyn: "Gender conscious diversity messages validate women who face workplace gender discrimination"
Edwina Wong's symposium titled "Multiple identities and their intersection: How our experiences and needs are shaped by multidimensionality" was accepted to the 19th general meeting of the EASP in Krakow.
Teri Kirby's symposium titled "Not all diversity initiatives are created equal: The nuances of designing effective initiatives" was accepted to the 19th general meeting of the EASP in Krakow.
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June 2020
Congratulations to Charlotte Walters, Jack Oades & Shania Hughes for graduating with their B.S. degrees!
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Teri Kirby published a paper at Frontiers in Psychology titled “Editorial: Understanding Barriers to Workplace Equality: A Focus on the Target's Perspective”.
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April 2020
Sabrina Spangsdorf successfully passed her dissertation proposal! Congratulations Sabrina!
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March 2020
Antonia Sudkæmper & Teri Kirby published a paper at European Journal of Social Psychology titled “A comprehensive measure of attitudes and behaviour: Development of the Support for Gender Equality”. Congrats to Antonia on her first publication!
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February 2020
Teri Kirby's research publication, "It’s fair for us: Diversity structures cause women to legitimize discrimination" was featured in Harvard Kennedy School's Gender Action Portal, which highlights research that advances gender equity.
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Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled “Cultural appropriation or appreciation? The role of status and cultural awareness on reactions to cultural appropriation” at the annual meeting of the SPSP in New Orleans. She also co-authored a presentation titled “Cultural borrowing versus trespassing”
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At the Gender preconference, she gave a presentation titled “Tailoring diversity initiatives to the gender and race intersection” on research led by Edwina Wong.
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January 2020
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled “The nuances of diversity management: Implications for racial minorities and women” as part of the Social Psychology Seminar series at the University of Groningen.
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December 2019
Eirini Ketzitzidou Argyri starts her role as Research Coordinator for the lab's ESRC grant - welcome to the lab, Eirini!
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September 2019
Nicole Russell Pascual was awarded the 1+3 ESRC studentship (a government-funded fellowship) under the supervision of Teri Kirby. Congratulations Nicole!
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August 2019
Teri Kirby received a New Investigator Grant from the Economic and Social Research Council.
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June 2019
Congratulations to Alix Baker, Joseph Wright, Joseph Edmonds, Zoe Bird, Bethany Wells, Nicole Russell Pascual, Faye Proud & Vilma Jokinen for graduating with their B.S. degrees!
Edwina Wong presented a poster titled "Intersectional responses to women’s leadership programs" at SPSSI.
Teri Kirby gave a presentation (with Eileen Schwanold as co-author) titled “Cultural appropriation or appreciation? The role of status and cultural awareness of reactions to cultural appropriation” at the annual meeting of SPSSI in San Diego.
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May 2019
Congratulations to Antonia Sudkæmper for passing her viva exam! She is now starting a position at Cambridge Assessment.
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled “The pitfalls of celebrating diversity: Implications for ethnic minorities and women” as part of the Psychology Seminar series at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Teri Kirby & Antonia Sudkæmper co-authored a presentation titled “The who, when, and why of the glass cliff phenomenon: A meta-analysis of appointments to precarious leadership positions” at the general meeting of the EAWOP in Turin.
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March 2019
Nicole Russell Pascual and Zoe Bird presented a poster titled “How do organisational diversity initiatives influence women’s leadership efficacy?” at the South West Undergraduate Psychology Conference of the BPS in Plymouth.
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Joshua Ng successfully completed his dissertation proposal! Congratulations Joshua!
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Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled “Organizational pro-diversity cues facilitate sexual identity disclosure among sexual minorities” at the annual meeting of the International Convention of Psychological Science in Paris.
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Teri Kirby received the Europe Network Fund Award from the University of Exeter.
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February 2019
Multiple lab members presented or co-authored presentations at the annual meeting of SPSP in Portland.
Teri Kirby & Eileen Schwanold: “Cultural appropriation or appreciation? The role of status and cultural awareness of reactions to cultural appropriation”
Antonia Sudkæmper & Teri Kirby: “The who, when, and why of the glass cliff phenomenon: A meta-analysis of appointments to precarious leadership positions”
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Teri Kirby presented a poster titled “Organizational pro-diversity cues facilitate sexual identity disclosure among sexual minorities” at SPSP.
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Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled “The pitfalls of celebrating diversity: Cultural appropriation or appreciation? The role of status and cultural awareness of reactions to cultural appropriation” as part of the Social/Personality Psychology Brownbag series at the University of Washington.
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January 2019
Teri gave a presentation titled “The trials and tribulations of celebrating diversity” for the Social Identity Lab group at the University of British Columbia.
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October 2018
Teri Kirby was part of a team that received the Outward Mobility Academic Fellowship from the University of Exeter.
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September 2018
Edwina Wong started her PhD!
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Congratulations to Teri Kirby for her promotion to Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter!
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Congratulations to Gazi Eraslan, Hexin Ji, Tom Ovett & Edwina Wong for graduating with their Master's degrees!
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August 2018
Congratulations to Joshua Ng for being awarded runner up in the 3-minute thesis competition! Click here to watch his presentation.
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July 2018
Teri Kirby gave a talk titled "The trials and tribulations of celebrating diversity" at the Pearn Kandola Lunch Seminar series (Business Consultancy in Oxford).
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June 2018
Congratulations to Jemma Convery, Hayley Flint, Jamie Hendy, Laura Osman, Sophie Stadie, Alex Stratford, Riya Surtani & Darren Tan for graduating with their B.S. degrees!
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Joshua Ng presented a poster titled "Acculturation orientations shape international students' performance in socially distinct spaces on campus" at SPSSI.
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May 2018
Joshua Ng presented a poster titled "How acculturation orientations shape international students' experience of, and performance within, different spaces on campus" at the University of Exeter's Postgraduate Research Showcase.
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March 2018
Sabrina Spangsdorf started her PhD!
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January 2018
Teri Kirby was awarded the EASP Full Member Research Travel Award to visit Madeleine Heilman's lab in New York.
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September 2017
Joshua Ng Started his PhD!
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Congratulations to Eileen Schwanold & Yung Xueying for graduating with their Master's degrees!
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July 2017
Antonia Sudkæmper presented a poster titled "Support for gender equality among men: Scale development" at the 18th general meeting of the EASP in Granada.
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Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "The demands of diversity philosophies: Strategic self-stereotyping among racial minorities" and chaired a symposium titled "Barriers to achieving gender equality: Shortcomings of placing the burden on women."
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Teri Kirby received a Grant-in-Aid from the SPSSI.
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June 2017
Congratulations to Emily Credido, Greg Eckhartt, Sophie Erskine, Raphael Korine, Cordelia Powell, Lydia Sze & Varun Venkatraman for graduating with their B.S. degrees!
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Antonia Sudkæmper gave a presentation titled "Men's support for gender equality" at the EASP Small Group Meeting in Berlin.
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May 2017
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "The trials and tribulations of diversity management: How diversity initiatives impact ethnic minorities and women" as part of the Psychology Seminar series at the University of Essex.
Teri Kirby received funding from the CLES Strategic Development Fund at the University of Exeter.
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March 2017
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "Why isn't diversity management working?" as part of the PsycSoc Seminar series at the University of Exeter.
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September 2016
Congratulations to Pantelis Kalpouzos for graduating with his Master's degree!
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July 2016
Antonia Sudkæmper presented a poster titled "Support for gender equality among men: Scale development" at the biennial meeting of ISJR in Canterbury.
Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "The demands of diversity messages: Strategic self-stereotyping among racial minorities" at ISJR.
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Antonia Sudkæmper & Teri Kirby gave a presentation titled "Support for gender equality among men - Scale development" at the Diversity & Leadership Conference in Canterbury.
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June 2016
Congratulations to Ciara Beaumont-Wood, Chi Chan, Chun Chang, Roisin Doherty, Katy Dunnill, Natalie Green, Natalie Priestley & Rija Tariq for graduating with their B.S. degrees!
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Teri Kirby received funding from the CLES Strategic Development Fund at University of Exeter.
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May 2016
Marco Silva Rego successfully defended his dissertation! Congratulations Dr. Silva Rego!
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February 2016
Sally Merritt presented a poster titled "Dispelling doubts about bisexuality: Implicit sexual identity matches self-identification" at SPSP in San Diego.
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January 2016
Marco Silva Rego started his role as Research Fellow in the DIP lab.
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