Dr. Teri Kirby
Principal Investigator
Dr. Teri Kirby completed her Bachelor's degree (B.A.) at the University of Pennsylvania in 2008 and her Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2015. In 2015, she became an Assistant Professor in Social Psychology at the University of Exeter and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018. In 2022, she moved to Purdue University as an Assistant Professor.​
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Dr. Kirby’s research interests lie in the realm of diversity, self and identity, intergroup relations, and discrimination. Her primary research questions examine how attempts to increase diversity shape the experience of groups that have been historically underrepresented. Which approaches to diversity management are most beneficial? How do these approaches affect ethnic minorities’ and women’s sense of self and identity? She examines these questions in academic and organizational contexts using multiple measurement approaches.
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In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, trying new food, making unnecessary spreadsheets, and arguing about whether dogs or cats are better.
PhD Students
Edwina Wong is interested in whether organizational gender diversity interventions are effective for different ethnic and racial groups of women. In line with this, she is investigating how gender diversity interventions can be designed with intersectional considerations to improve individual and organizational outcomes across different intersections of gender and race.
Edwina's profile
Email: c.y.e.wong@rug.nl
Edwina Wong
(University of Groningen)
Nicole is a PhD student interested in the ways organisational practices can increase workplace diversity. She was awarded the 1+3 ESRC fellowship under the supervision of Dr. Teri Kirby. Her area of research investigates the effects of diversity ideologies on the representation of marginalised groups within organisations.
Nicole's CV
Email: nr312@exeter.ac.uk
Nicole Russell Pascual
Austin Zeng
Research Coordinator
Austin coordinates the lab research in the Diversity, Identity, and Prejudice Lab. He is interested in how people make causal attributions about others’ behaviors in an intergroup context. He is also interested in how judgments about others’ morality derive from these attributions. Before Purdue, he received his B.S. in Psychological & Brain Sciences from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Outside of psychology, he enjoys reading philosophy and science fiction.
Austin's CV
Email: zeng297@purdue.edu
Independent Researchers
Abi Click is a senior at Purdue University majoring in Psychology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and minoring in Sociology. Her research interests include perceptions of various gender and sexual minorities and how they can lead to prejudice and discrimination; She is specifically interested in gender essentialism. Her secondary research interests include intersectional prejudice and ableism.
Email: clicka@purdue.edu
Abi Click
Kavya Krishnan
Research Assistant
Carson Schalk
Research Assistant
Jacob Lo
Research Assistant
Trina Makalintal Research Assistant
Annabelle Battiste
Research Assistant
Research Assistants
Lab Alumni
Post-Doctoral Fellows:
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Dr. Marco Silva Rego (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal)
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PhD Students:
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Dr. Antonia Sudkaemper (Cambridge Assessment)
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Dr. Joo Hou (Joshua) Ng (Assistant Professor/Lecturer at Taylor’s University, Malaysia)
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Sabrina Spangsdorf (Strategic advisor and educational analyst, Hillerød Municipality, Denmark)
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Research Coordinators:
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Eirini Ketzitzidou Argyri (currently a PhD student at the University of Exeter)
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Casey McMahon (currently a PhD student at Columbia University)
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Master's Students:
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Nicole Russell Pascual (ESRC funded)
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Gazi Eraslan
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Hexin Ji
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Tom Ovett
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Eileen Schwanold
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Xueying Yang
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Pantelis Kalpouzos
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Undergraduate Researchers: Charlotte Walters, Jack Oades, Shania Hughes, Faye Proud, Alix Baker, Joseph Edmonds, Zoe Bird, Bethany Rachel Wells, Joseph Wright, Vilma Karolina Jokinen, Nicole Russell Pascual, Jemma Convery, Hayley Flint, Jamie Hendy, Laura Osman, Sophie Stadie, Alex Stratford, Riya Surtani, Darren Tan, Leah Fawaz, Zee Ning Liew, Navina Sandhu, Emily Credido, Greg Eckhartt, Sophie Erskine, Ines Huynh, Raphael Korine, Cordelia Powell, Lydia Sze, Varun Venkatraman, Leah Fawaz, Zee Ning Liew, Navina Sandhu, Ciara Beaumont-Wood, Chi Chan, Chun Chang, Roisin Doherty, Katy Dunnill, Natalie Green, Natalie Priestley, Rija Tariq, Britney Ramos, Sarah Kenway, Shannon Sturt
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