ReSearching Diversity

About ReSearching Diversity

Join a group of six women in social sciences in their aim to increase visibility of inspiring social scientists and of cutting-edge research on ethnic, cultural, and migration-related diversity. Each episode, two hosts invite one outstanding scientist to discuss their PAST (personal path into academia), the PRESENT (research article or book chapter that has recently inspired them), and the FUTURE (recent developments and paradigm shifts in academia and social sciences). For more information on the episode, guest, and included references, please visit https://www.researchingdiversity.com. You can also follow us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook. We want to thank Minor Revisions for the music, Lotte Gottschewski-Kooijman for the logo design, Max Kersten for post production, and zeythehuman for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon!

Publisher

Jana Vietze, Sabrina Alhanachi, Miriam Schwarzenthal, Sharleen Pevec, Tuğçe Aral, Zeynep Demir

Category

education · science

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Mar 2021

Latest episode

23 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

24 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   23 Apr 2026

   Student episode || Dayna-Lee Stewart: Educational safe spaces

   In this first-ever student takeover episode, Emma, Ikram, Celine and Loïs from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Master’s in Educational Sciences) speak with Dayna-Lee Stewart, founder and director of the Black Austrian Youth Forum. She is an educational professional with a background in Educational Sciences from Vienna, Austria. We explored her career path, the challenges she faced, and her vision for greater equality in education. PAST (00:01:27): Dayna-Lee explains that her journey into education was not a straight line. She originally planned to study music but ultimately earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Educational Sciences. Alongside her studies, she gained experience in social care and educational roles. She reflects on the challenges she faced, such as navigating academia as a Black woman, dealing with systemic inequalities, and finding her professional identity in the complex field of education. She also gives honest advice to young professionals about standing their ground, exploring different paths, and ensuring their careers match their values. PRESENT (00:06:40): Dayna-Lee shares details about her current work with the Black Austrian Youth Forum. She creates educational safe spaces for Black youth in Austria. Her efforts include organizing summer schools, hosting conferences, training educators, and securing funding. Her main goal is to make education more accessible and fair. She shares a powerful story from a recent summer school expansion, showing how important it is to support not just students but also to create safe, reflective spaces for Black educators. Through her work, she stresses the need for educational systems that support both learners and staff. FUTURE (00:15:47): Looking ahead, Dayna-Lee critically examines diversity and inclusion in academia and educational settings. She calls for deeper changes beyond just symbolic diversity. She urges institutions to rethink how they manage, allocate resources, and offer support. Dayna-Lee encourages educators to question the systems they work within, to expand their perspectives through global scholarship, and to embrace discomfort as part of meaningful growth. She sees her own future increasingly in advisory and coaching roles, contributing to more reflective and inclusive educational environments. For more information on the episode, guest, and included references, please visit researchingdiversity.com (https://www.researchingdiversity.com/). You can also follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/researchdivpod), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/researchingdiversity), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/researching-diversity-podcast), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/researchingdiversity). We want to thank Minor Revisions (https://soundcloud.com/minorrevisions) for the music, Lotte Gottschewski for the logo design, Max Kersten (https://maxkersten.de/)for post production, and zeythehuman (https://www.instagram.com/zeythehuman/) for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon!

2. 

   7 Mar 2025

   Ursula Moffitt: Critical consciousness || Positionality in research

   In this episode, we talked to Ursula Moffitt who is an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico, in the USA. PAST (00:02:42): Ursula describes her path into academia and her continuous struggles with the boundaries of particular academic disciplines, including psychology. PRESENT (00:11:33): We talk about a study from Quiles and colleagues (2023) about how young adults during the Covid-19 pandemic perceived their own critical consciousness and how this differed depending on the societal position of participants. We further discuss how critical consciousness can be connected to being and identifying as “White”, which is closely linked to Ursula’s own academic work. FUTURE (00:24:55): Ursula highlights how important it is that all researchers are aware and reflective of their own societal position when they conduct research (positionality). Also, we talk about the need for going beyond the typical questionnaires and experiments for collecting data from youth, but to instead better train educators and psychologists in qualitative research methods. For more information on the episode, guest, and included references, please visit researchingdiversity.com (https://www.researchingdiversity.com/). You can also follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/researchdivpod), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/researchingdiversity), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/researching-diversity-podcast), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/researchingdiversity). We want to thank Minor Revisions (https://soundcloud.com/minorrevisions) for the music, Lotte Gottschewski for the logo design, Max Kersten (https://maxkersten.de/)for post production, and zeythehuman (https://www.instagram.com/zeythehuman/) for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon! FULL REFERENCES OF THIS EPISODE: *Quiles, T. B., Hoyt, L. T., Dotson, M. P., Castro, E. M., May, M., & Cohen, A. K. (2023). Who has to act? A qualitative exploration of emerging adults’ critical consciousness during the COVID‐19 pandemic. American Journal of Community Psychology, 71(1–2), 136–146. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12638 (https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12638) FURTHER INSPIRING AUTHORS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Adriana Aldana, Katie Richards-Schuster

3. 

   8 May 2024

   Elisabeth Kaneza: Intersectionality in law || Empowering scholars of color

   In this episode, we talked to Elisabeth Kaneza who is a legal and political scholar and a community outreach officer at the German Center for Integration and Migration (DeZiM) in Berlin, Germany. PAST (00:02:20): Elisabeth emphasizes the importance of equal rights and chances for all, the impact of racial discrimination that require structural solutions. She also describes her journey into academia. PRESENT (00:09:35): We discuss an article by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) about equality in law, the intersections of race and sex. This article has been groundbreaking in many ways. Importantly, it has established that scientific theories insufficiently capture experiences of intersecting identities, such as being a woman of color, and related discrimination experiences. FUTURE (00:26:40): Elisabeth shares encouraging thoughts to empower emerging scholars of color. She highlights that their voices and work are highly needed. Therefore, she demands for structural support, research, and actions for racial equality. For more information on the episode, guest, and included references, please visit researchingdiversity.com (https://www.researchingdiversity.com/). You can also follow us on Twitter (https://twitter.com/researchdivpod), Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/researchingdiversity), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/researching-diversity-podcast), and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/researchingdiversity). We want to thank Minor Revisions (https://soundcloud.com/minorrevisions) for the music, Lotte Gottschewski for the logo design, Max Kersten (https://maxkersten.de/)for post production, and zeythehuman (https://www.instagram.com/zeythehuman/) for their artwork. Stay tuned and talk soon! FULL REFERENCES OF THIS EPISODE: *Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti‐Discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Anti‐Racist Politics. In The University of Chicago Legal Forum, 140(1), 139–167. Esposito, J., & Evans-Winters, V. (2021). Introduction to intersectional qualitative research. SAGE Publications Inc. Kaneza, E. (2024). Rassische Diskriminierung in Deutschland. Verwirklichung eines positive Rechts für die Gleichberechtigung von Schwarzen Menschen – Analyse und Empfehlungen. Nomos. https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/rassische-diskriminierung-in-deutschland-id-118829/ (https://www.nomos-shop.de/nomos/titel/rassische-diskriminierung-in-deutschland-id-118829/).

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