News & Announcements

Attending the Society for Industrial and Organizational (SIOP)'s 2024 Annual Convention? You can hear about GEDI Lab members’ work at the following events:

Apr. 18th,

Dr. Sam Hancock’s poster with collaborator Sam Plotnick, ‘The Benefits of ADHD? ADHDer’s Perceptions of Workplace Task Conflict,’ will be in the Hyatt - Riverside Exhibit Hall from 2:00 - 2:50 PM. 

Apr. 19th,

Janice Lam will be stepping in for Ivona in speaking about their paper on the mental load as part of the panel, ‘The Mental Load: A Conversation Between Researchers and Employees/Practitioners’. Taking place from 10:30 - 11:20 AM2, you can find this panel in the Swissotel Montreaux 1. 

Apr. 20th

From 10:00 - 10:50 AM, Dr. Sam Hancock will be a panelist about ‘What about Us Old Gals?’ Experiences of Mature Women in Graduate School. You can attend in the Hyatt Ballroom B. 

As part of the University of Oxford's 2024 Diversity at Work series, Ivona will be speaking in a workshop about 'Flexible work and inflexible care: Opportunities and challenges for an inclusive workforce.' Taking place on Mar. 11, 2024, you can learn more on their website.

The Women in Business Club at London Business School is hosting the 24th EQUALL conference on March 7th, 2024. With the theme being "A Seat at Every Table," Ivona will be a panelist speaking on "Together We Rise: Navigating Diversity Challenges in Today's Business World". You can learn more about the conference on their website.

Julie (Nhu) Nguyen and Ivona, along with their collaborators Frederic Godart and Yuval Engal, recently published a piece in The Conversation regarding their research on benevolent sexism. Specifically, it discusses how 'Benevolent sexism in startups widens the gender gap by advantaging men over women'. You can read this article on The Conversation website.

On February 2nd, 2024, Ivona will be presenting on "Parental Leaves and Gender Equality: The Effect of Parental Leaves on Women’s and Men’s Careers" at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School. 

The GEDI Lab was happy to welcome guest speaker Dr. Peter Fisher on January 26th, 2024.  During the lab meeting, Peter spoke on "Toward a Better Understanding of the Design of Forced-Choice Personality Assessments through Computational Modeling". We wish Peter well as this work progresses, and are thankful for his time sharing this project with us!

On January 16th, 2024, Ivona will be presenting on "How Warmth Stereotypes Undermine Women at Work: The Case of Women with Mandarin Accent and East Asian Women Professors" at the Amsterdam Business School. She is looking forward to her visit with the University of Amsterdam and its business school and department of psychology! 

On November 3rd, 2023, the GEDI Lab was fortunate to host Dr. Samantha Hancock and Sam Plotnick. These two researchers shared about their work on neurodiversity in the workplace, including future projects and papers. We are excited to follow along as these progress, and are thankful for their time with us! 

Ivona will be speaking as part of Turner Consulting Group’s event on ‘What’s in an Accent? Accent discrimination in the labour market.’ Taking place on Dec. 5th, from 12 - 1 PM EST, Ivona will present research regarding gender and non-native English accents within the workplace as part of a panel. Registration is available on this Zoom page.

Several GEDI Lab members will be participating at the 83rd Academy of Management Convention happening in Boston! We are excited for them as they take part in the following:

Friday, August 4th

• Ivona will be providing feedback as part of the OB Research Incubator 

Sunday, August 6th

• Jean-Marc Moke is organizing the New Doctoral Student Symposium, which Janice Lam will participate in as an ‘Upper-Year Expert’

Monday, August 7th

• Janice Lam will be the discussant for the Advancing Gender Equity and Diversity in the Workplace: The Role of Allyship and Leadership symposium

• Janice Lam will be presenting a paper including Jean-Marc Moke as a co-author in the The Plight of the Vulnerable Workplace: Theoretical and Empirical Advancements symposium

• Mehran Bahmani will be presenting a paper as part of the Negotiation Outcomes paper session

• Heather Wong will be presenting a paper including Ivona as a co-author in the We Shall Overcome: Advocating for Social and Ethical Issues at Work Despite its Challenges symposium

Tuesday, August 8th

• Victoria Daniel will present a paper – designated a ‘Best Paper’ by the DEI division! - in the Family and Occupation paper session

A paper led by Julie Nguyen, co-authored with Ivona, Yuval Engel, and Frederic Godart, is now published! Beginning as Julie's Masters thesis, the paper, "Benevolent Sexism and the Gender Gap in Startup Evaluation,' is now open-access in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Read it on the website here.

Several members of the GEDI Lab will be participating at the Canadian Psychological Association's 2023 Annual Convention! For those attending, come learn more about them, their research, and research-related experiences at the following events:

• Janice Lam will be a panelist as part of the "Conversation with CSIOP's EDI Working Group" on Fri. June 23rd

• Jean-Marc Moke will be a panelist as part of the conversation on "In Their Words: Student Leadership, Advocacy, Diversity, and the Future of Psychology in Canada" on Fri. June 23rd

• Drs. Samantha Hancock and Victoria Daniel will be participating mentors in the CSIOP Student Mentor event on Fri. June 23rd

• Jennifer Sedgewick will present a poster in Poster Session D on Sat. June 24th

• Saumya Aggarwal will present a poster on her undergraduate honours thesis under the supervision of Janice Lam and Ivona in Poster Session E on Sat. June 24th

• Ivona will be a panelist speaking on "Conducting Research with Impact" on Sun. June 25th

A paper that Ivona  wrote with Drs. Anja Krstic, Deborah Powell, and Yujie Zhan, is now published! Titled "Supporting women during motherhood and caregiving necessary, but not sufficient: The need for men to become equal partners in childcare", this paper is published in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and is open-access, available to read here.

Janice Lam, a doctoral student and the lab manager of the GEDI Lab, was awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship beginning in September 2024. This federal award recognizes Janice's research accomplishments and will provide funding until the end of her PhD. Congratulations, Janice!

A paper that Drs. Winny Shen, Tanja Hentschel, and Ivona wrote, is now published! Published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, "Leading through the uncertainty of COVID ‐19: The joint influence of leader emotions and gender on abusive and family‐supportive supervisory behaviours" is open-access and may be read on the journal's website. 

A paper written by Drs. Samantha Hancock, Winny Shen, and Ivona, is now published! Titled "Women With Mandarin Accent in the Canadian English-Speaking Hiring Context: Can Evaluations of Warmth Undermine Gender Equity?", this project began as Sam's Masters thesis under Ivona's supervision. Now, this paper is published in the Psychology of Women Quarterly and may be read on the journal's website. 

On March 10th, 2023, Dr. Vanessa Conzon will be presenting her research in our GEDI Lab meeting.  Discussing "Transcending Role Conflict Through Temporal Sovereignty", Dr. Conzon will share with us how workers can transcend work and non-work role conflict while maintaining engagement in these roles. We look forward to learning from her! More information about her research may be found on her website. 

On March 8th, 2023, Ivona will be speaking at the Worker Wellbeing International Women's Day Celebration! Taking place on Zoom via Claremont Graduate University, from 12 - 1 PM, Ivona will be speaking on "Benevolent Sexism and the Gender Gap in Startup Evaluation."  More information about this event may be found on the event page. 

A paper written by Winny Shen, Janice Lam, Christianne Varty, Anja Krstic, and Ivona is now published! Titled 'Diversity climate affords unequal protection against incivility among Asian workers: The COVID-19 pandemic as a racial mega-threat', this paper focuses on the experiences of East and Southeast Asian workers in Canada and the USA during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.  on her new publication! This paper was published in Applied Psychology: An International Review and is open-access on the journal's website.

On February 17, 2023, Dr. Anyi Ma will be presenting some of her research on "The CADDIS model of agency for gender and leadership: How it was developed, how it leads to new insights for gender and leadership, and future directions". We are looking forward to learning more about her work. More information about her research may be found on her website. 

Liam Nicoll, a research assistant and member of the GEDI Lab, has been accepted into the Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology program at Yorkville University! Beginning in September 2023, we are wishing Liam all the best as he moves forward. Congratulations, Liam!

Jessie Kim, a research assistant and member of the GEDI Lab, has successfully completed her MSc in Organizational Behaviour! She worked under the supervision of Dr. Eddy Ng at the Smith School of Business at Queen's University. Congratulations, Jessie! 

On October 28, 2022, Dr. Elinor Flynn will be presenting some of her research at the GEDI Lab meeting. We are looking forward to hosting her and learning more about her work. More information about her research may be found on her website. 

On September 29, 2022, Janice Lam will be speaking as part of a panel at Ontario SPOR Support Unit (OSSU)'s Research Day. Panelists specifically will discuss how they used their awarded OSSU EMPOWER Awards (more information about the awards on the OSSU website)  to help with knowledge translation of their research. Janice was one of several individuals with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health that created the Youth Wellness Quest, a mental health literacy tool for youth by youth. They used their OSSU EMPOWER Award to create an online version of this tool. If interested in attending, Janice will be speaking in the morning session between 10:30 and 11:20 AM EST. Watch the presentation on Vimeo..  

Congratulations goes to Dr. Christianne Varty, who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled “I’ll believe it when I see it: Widespread use of diversity statements undermines perceived sincerity and organizational attractiveness”on Friday September 9th, 2022.  We're excited for her as she finishes this chapter. Congratulations, Christianne!

We are excited for Owen Angus-Yamada, who has accepted a position as a Research and Policy Analyst with College Student Alliance. Congratulations, Owen!

As the Academy of Management (AOM)'s 2022 Annual Meeting begins this week, we are looking forward to attending and would like to highlight some of the sessions in which the work of GEDI Lab members will be presented!

• August 5, 10 AM PDT: Fitting In: Antecedents and Outcomes of Increasing Women’s Representation in Leadership (session 96) - In person

• August 7, 11 AM PDT: Bringing Intersectionality into International Management Research: The Case of Language and Gender (session 748) - Online (zoom) only

• August 8, 10:30 AM PDT: Racial Inequalities (session 1215) – Hybrid interactive

• August 9, 10:15 AM PDT: Women and Contemporary Challenges of Working in the Home (session 1848) – In person

Wishing everyone a great time at AOM! 

We are excited for Samantha Hancock, who has accepted a tenure-track assistant professor position with Western University's DAN Department of Management.& Organizational Studies. Currently a PhD candidate, Sam's position with Western will begin on July 1, 2022. Congratulations, Sam! 

Owen Angus-Yamada completed his Master of Science in Management degree at Brock University! Study at the Goodman School of Business under the supervision of Dr. Adam Kanar, his MSc thesis was titled "Objects in your rear may be less important than they appear: How objects in candidates’ video interview backgrounds influence interviewers’ perceptions of fit and hiring recommendations." Congratulations, Owen!

At the 2022 Canadian Psychological Association's Annual Convention, Ivona was announced to be Chair-Elect for the Canadian Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (CSIOP) section. This means that for the 2023-2024 year, Ivona will be the Chair for CSIOP. Congratulations, Ivona! 

Jessie Kim received the Best Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Poster Award in the Canadian Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology section at the Canadian Psychological Association's 2022 Annual Convention! Titled "How changes in prevalence impact perceptions of the severity of sexual harassment", this work was conducted with Dr. Lindie Liang. Congratulations, Jessie!

At the Canadian Psychological Association's 2022 Annual Convention, Janice Lam was awarded the RHR Kendall-Evans Award! This is a prestigious student paper award from the Canadian Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. Janice's paper was titled "Male allyship: The consequences of communality perceptions for men's careers," this work being conducted in collaboration with Drs. Ivona Hideg, Janine Bosak, and Madeline Heilman.  Congratulations, Janice!

Three GEDI Lab members will be presenting at the Canadian Psychological Association's 2022 Annual Convention in Calgary, Alberta. Janice Lam, Jessie Kim, and Samantha Hancock will sharing their work at the Industrial/Organizational Psychology's poster session on Sunday June 19th. If attending, please check their posters out!

Janice Lam, a PhD student in the GEDI lab, was awarded an Ontario Graduate Scholarship for 2022-2023! Congratulations, Janice! 

We are excited to welcome Jessie Kim and Heather Wong to the GEDI Lab! Both are incoming PhD students in the Schulich School of Business's ORGS area (beginning Fall 2022) and will be working with Ivona on various researh projects. Both also have previous connections to the lab; Jessie has been a research assistant with the GEDI Lab the last few years, and Heather and Ivona are currently collaborating on a project together. We look forward to seeing both students progress with their research over the next few years!

On May 23rd, 2022, Ivona will be one of several Academy of Management Journal representatives at the AMJ Paper Development Workshop in Madrid! More information about this workshop may be found here. 

Congratulations to Janice Lam, a PhD student with the GEDI Lab, on her new publication! Since 2015, she has been involved in developing a mental health literacy resource for youth with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. In this new paper, she and her coauthors detail the process, showing how youth may lead and be involved from the conceptualization to the publication and dissemination of youth resources. 

An editorial that Ivona wrote for the Academy of Management Journa (AMJ)l with coauthors, Elizabeth Umphress, Floor Rink, and Cindy Muir (Zapata), is now published! Titled Insights on How We Try to Show Empathy, Respect, and Inclusion in AMJ, it may be read here.

We are very excited that Victoria Daniel, a doctoral candidate and GEDI lab member, has been offered and accepted a faculty position at York University's School of Administrative Studies! Congratulations, Victoria! 

On February 17, 2022, Ivona will be speaking on her research regarding parental leaves as part of the Thriving ASI Research Seminar and Telfer Research Seminar Series. More specifically, she will discuss Parental Leaves and Gender Equality: The Effect of Parental Leaves on Women's and Men's Careers. More information and registration may be found here. 

Anja Krstic, Ivona, Raymond Trau, and Tanya Zarina's research on the unintended consequences of maternity leaves was selected as a runner up for the Financial Times' Responsible Business Education Awards! They are listed under the category of academic research with impact in the full list of award winners and runner ups.. Congratulations, Anja and Ivona!

Ivona has helped organize an online professional development workshop with the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) on transparency and rigor in empirical research. Taking place on February 28, 2022, this workshop is meant to discuss best practices and tips for research transparency, along with how these issues may be approached for AMJ paper submissions. For those interested in learning more and registering, they may do so here.