In October 2017 and January 2018, PD Dr. Ulrike Senger, ZWW, and Prof. Dr. Barbara Sieben, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, coordinated a two-part pilot module „Leading Diversity“ (LeaD) and conveyed the participants an overview on contents and aims of the postgraduate master study program M-LeaD that started in April 2018. In this pilot group, participants of different professional areas designed under scientific guidance a project aimed at dealing with diversity in their specific context.
The first module part from October 26th to 28th, 2017 offered the participants broad based insights into research and practice of gender, diversity and equal opportunities. At the outset, numerous faculty members of Humanities and Social sciences gave short presentations of their research questions and projects illustrating the faculty’s multifaceted research profile on equality and diversity issues. On the second day followed keynotes of representatives of diverse professional fields such as academia, health, public administration, police and Bundeswehr addressing reference points and pressing questions as to diversity issues within their practice fields. This module part was complemented by an interactive method workshop in which method consultant Rolf Porst introduced the participants to the development and design of questionnaires which e.g. may serve to survey the status quo of diversity within a work organization.
The second part from January 18th to 20th, 2018 included the presentation of several diversity initiatives, such as the German Charta of Diversity and the ‘Chefsache’ Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Defence, as well as a panel discussion on diversity in the banking sector, among others with Gernot Sendowski, Director, HR Global Diversity & Inclusion at Deutsche Bank AG. At this part’s core, participants presented the project ideas they developed in the course of the pilot module. Related comments and discussions under guidance of Ulrike Senger, Barbara Sieben and Rolf Porst served to set these project drafts on diversity in different professional fields both in the practice as well as the science and method context.
Both module parts included impressive cultural programs. Highlights were creative workshops in which OTL Michael Hülcher (director of the event management at HSU and watercolourist) inspired attendants to grapple with the perception and interpretation of diversity with further senses.
Letzte Änderung: 23. October 2022