Working Effectively in an Intercultural Environment
Using the content below, you will explore working in intercultural environments, something we all do every day. In this content, we’re trying to capture the dynamic ways that people interact. In virtual journal club, you can explore the literature related to microaggressions and implicit bias. Finally, you will reflect on how to be inclusive of others in the formal and informal environments you experience.
Introduction
Introduction
The learning objectives for the following content are:
- Thinking about yourself – Develop an awareness of your own social, cultural, and professional identities through reflection.
- Exploring the literature – Describe, based on the research literature, how the experiences of marginalized graduate students and postdocs are impacted in research settings.
- Thinking about how you interact with others – Reflect on how your culture and identities interact with those of others in the formal and informal environments you experience. Experts reflect and participants observe and recognize strategies to create and support an inclusive environment.
Glossary
Introducing the Ground Rules
Reflecting on Ground Rules
Respecting Confidentiality
Download the Ground Rules
Thinking About Yourself
The Practice of Self-Reflection
Introducing the Social Identity Grid
Social Identity Grid Activity
Using the Identity Grid
Thinking About How You Interact with Others
Reflecting on Social Interactions as Postdocs
Framing the Case Studies
Download the case studies and reflection prompts:
Unpacking Case Study #1
Unpacking Case Study #2
Putting it All Together
Putting it All Together
Reflection Activity
Self-Reflection Prompts:
- After seeing the responses from the activity, what other questions or reflections arise for you?
- Having reflected on the identity grid, microaggressions, and how you interact with others, what is one key takeaway for you from this content?
- What might you do differently based on that takeaway?
