Keynote speakers

Dr Tessa Charlesworth, Northwestern University

Tessa is an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, where she directs the Change Lab. Tessa earned her PhD from Harvard University and a SSHRC post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Toronto and Harvard.

Tessa's research investigates whether, how and why we change as a society. So far, her research has focused on computational methods to uncover long-term trends – over decades or even centuries – in stigma towards social groups. Her work has been featured in leading journals and public media outlets, and has received awards including the FABSS dissertation award, and the APS Rising Star in Psychology.

Prof Janine Bosak, Dublin City University Business School

Janine is a Full Professor in Organisational Psychology at Dublin City University Business School. She served as Executive Committee Member of the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) from 2017 to 2022 and she currently serves as elected PDW chair of the Academy of Management (AOM) Careers Division (executive board).

Janine's work spans leadership and gender, stereotypes, prejudice and diversity in the workplace, employee engagement and wellbeing, and health in organisations.

Prof Klaus Boehnke, Constructor University Bremen

Klaus is Professor of Social Science Methodology School of Business, Social & Decision Sciences at Constructor University Bremen. His research interests include political socialisation (xenophobia, right-wing extremism), value change and value transmission, and methods of empirical social research.

Klaus is currently working on expanding his ideas on decoupling semantic sameness and mathematical-statistical equivalence to gender and argues the need to validate scales separately for women and men.