Displaying 3 items of Two Psychologists Four Beers with the tag "diversity".
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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joins the show to talk about a new paper where he outlines different rationales for diversity in hiring, and an as-yet unpublished study where he asked department chairs how much they actually value each of them.
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Episode 119: The Future of DEI in Higher Ed (with Amori Mikami)
May 7th, 2025 | 1 hr 46 mins
academic hiring, dei, diversity, higher education
It's been a tumultuous time for DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) efforts in higher education. Whether due to political pressure, internal dissension, or both, many prominent institutions are revamping or even eliminating their DEI offices and rethinking DEI policies that once seemed unquestionable. Amori Mikami from the University of British Columbia re-joins the show to talk about the changes, what she thinks universities ought to be doing, and what she thinks we they can do better.
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Episode 116: Can We Do Science Without Ideology? (with Moin Syed)
January 22nd, 2025 | 1 hr 27 mins
diversity, ideology, misinformation, open science, preregistration
Cultural psychologist and open science advocate Moin Syed joins the show to talk what he thinks people get wrong about ideology, diversity, and open science. We talk about what role, if any, researchers' ideology should play in their science, and what it means when people describe psychological research as "ideological." In the second half of the show, we talk about what people get wrong about preregistration, and why it seems some misconceptions just won't die.