Azim Shariff
Special guest
Azim Shariff is Professor of Psychology and Canada 150 Research Chair of Moral Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where he directs the CAMP. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto in 2004, and his doctoral degree at UBC in 2010. He then brain-drained to America for eight years at the Universities of Oregon and California, before moving back to Vancouver and UBC in 2018.
Azim Shariff has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 128: Why Do We Care About Faculty Diversity? (with Azim Shariff)
March 6th, 2026 | 1 hr 14 mins
academia, diversity, hiring
Many academics care about diversity in faculty hiring, but why? Azim Shariff joins the show to talk about a new paper where he outlines different rationales for diversity in hiring, and an as-yet unpublished study where he asked department chairs how much they actually value each of them.