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Michael Bender, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
I am Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Psychology at Tilburg University, Research Fellow at Babylon, the Center for the Study of the Multicultural Society at Tilburg University, and Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Psychology at Gratia Christian College, Hong Kong, China.
In my work, I study culture, in particular acculturation, international student adjustment, threat, inter-group behavior, and identity (see my google scholar page). I am passionate about teaching and infusing culture into the psychology curriculum and care about the methodological appropriateness of our studies and tools (topics on which I regularly give workshops and summer schools).
Together with Byron Adams and many wonderful contributors, I recently edited the textbook Methods and Assessment in Culture and Psychology (Cambridge).
I value collaboration, working in teams, and making scientific insights available to everyone. I am editor of the Open Access Journal, Online Readings in Psychology and Culture, and am an active member of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), the International Academy for Intercultural Research (IAIR), and am a board member of the Central Committee Cultural Diversity and Psychology of the Dutch Institute for Psychologists (Centrale commissie Culturele diversiteit en psychologie, NIP). I am also a member of the standing review board of the RGC Hong Kong
I have received funding from the European Union (Marie Curie Fellowship, Erasmus+ KA2), the Dutch NWO (Comenius Teaching Fellowship), the German DAAD, and the Jacobs Foundation, and Tilburg University (for current projects, see Projects and Grants).
Links:
Homepage: https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/staff/m-bender
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-bender-6b15b843/
Twitter: @_m_bender https://twitter.com/_m_bender
Bettina Strewe, SIETAR Deutschland
Bettina Strewe, Dr. phil., studied linguistics, Slavic and Roman languages, education, adult education and German as a foreign language in Tübingen, Hamburg, Bremen and Kaiserslautern (Germany), St. Petersburg, Moscow (Russia), Kiev (Ukraine) and Sofia (Bulgaria). She was teaching and researching for 15 years before starting her work as a senior manager of international projects in nearly all Eastern Europe countries and across Central Asia. On behalf of the Federal Government of Germany she supported the transformation of adult education structures in site, was involved in establishing a national law on Adult Education in Northern Macedonia and took part in the introduction of the Common European Frame of Reference (CERF) in South Eastern European countries. Back in Germany, she founded InterKultOST with the focus on developing curricula for intercultural studies as well as on providing intercultural trainings for trainers, scientists, administration and companies.
See more on https://bettina.strewe.de.
Ursula develops intercultural learning interventions that are demonstrably effective. She has worked with public and private organizations, among them Asurion, Bosch, Daimler, DEG Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungshilfegesellschaft mbH, Ericsson, Essent, FellowMind, Peterson & Control Union, RWE, and Siemens Nederland N.V. In 2016, Ursula received the Margaret D Pusch Founders Award by SIETAR USA, in recognition of her commitment and service to the intercultural relations field. She was a board member of SIETAR Netherlands for six years, and president of the association from April 2015 to April 2017. Together with Oscar van Weerdenburg, she developed the Intercultural Readiness Check and published Intercultural Readiness: Four competences for working across cultures (Palgrave). Ursula has certified over 600 professionals and over 20 institutes of higher education in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Australia, to work with the Intercultural Readiness Check. She currently focuses on how culturally diverse teams can use the Readiness competences to solve problems, take better decisions and be more innovative.
Oscar founded Intercultural Business Improvement, convinced that a focus on cultural differences had to go paired with attention to the competencies needed to deal with them. From the start, he has been involved in extensive research on intercultural competencies and their relevance for internationally operating companies. In 2014, he and Ursula published Intercultural Readiness: Four competences for working across cultures (Palgrave). Oscar has consulted to a wide range of companies, including Vodafone, Royal Dutch Shell, HSBC, BASF, Pepsico, Daimler, ABN AMRO and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Drawing on decades of experience, Oscar supports leaders and teams in being more effective in their international roles. Based on IBI’s Team Readiness approach, he helps culturally diverse teams to develop the competences they need for solving complex problems, taking better decisions and being more innovative.
Anette Rohmann, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany
Anette Rohmann is full professor of Community Psychology at the Department of Psychology at the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. Her work focuses on intercultural relations and acculturation, intercultural competence and intercultural trainings, interventions that reduce prejudice and promote positive intergroup relations and collective action in the context of environmental protection. She is also interested in creating a fruitful research-practice exchange and in the promotion of evidence-based practice.
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/community-psychology/
https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/community-psychology/team/anette.rohmann.shtml
Verena Ohanian, FernUniversitaet in Hagen, Germany
Verena Ohanian is a research associate and lecturer at the Chair of Community Psychology, University of Hagen in Germany. Her work focuses on interventions that promote positive change at individual and societal level with regards to diversity. Verenas research interests concern intercultural competence, the effectiveness of diversity interventions as well as the research-practice exchange concerning intercultural trainings and evidence-based practice. She also works as a psychologist, expat coach and intercultural trainer in diverse (non-)profit projects, supporting people in dealing with challenges posed by intercultural co-operations. Before starting her own training services she was managing the intercultural training services of a translation agency in Hamburg, working with German companies that do business all over the world.
Links:
Homepage: https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/community-psychology/team/verena.ohanian.shtml
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verena-ohanian-piper-86481149?originalSubdomain=de