Equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility training for transformation

Overview

Each learner approaches their EDIA journey with different knowledge, skills, and lived experience. This webinar discusses and demonstrates the IDEA approach to EDIA training, designed to foster understanding of EDIA principles and ways to embed practices with intention. The learning journey empowers learners to transform research activities and work environments through opportunities, decisions, and outcomes that are more equitable, diverse, inclusive, and accessible by applying an EDIA lens in their work. 

In this interactive webinar, we preview the integrated platform for building knowledge competencies, promoting reflection, and testing knowledge acquisition. IDEA's EDIA training will have three modules, in this webinar, we focus on Module 1 content, EDIA Foundations, as an exemplar of our approach to advance EDIA within the IDEA community and beyond. We welcome feedback from the webinar audience on this live demonstration to further refine the approach.  

Speakers

Karen Harlos is a Professor and past Inaugural Chair of the Department of Business and Administration at the University of Winnipeg. She is lead of IDEA's Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Accessibility Activity Area. Harlos’s expertise is in organizational behaviour, organizational psychology, psychometrics and human resources. Her research focuses on workplace bullying and mistreatment, employee silence and voice in the face of mistreatment, and workplace issues in healthcare. Harlos has a PhD in organizational behaviour, an MA in organizational/industrial psychology and a BA in clinical psychology, all from the University of British Columbia.

Therese Salenieks is the National Operations and Communications Associate of IDEA. Salenieks was previously a research analyst at the Centre for Addictions and Mental Health (CAMH), and a program coordinator and research assistant at the University of Alberta. She is interested in a wide range of research related to health and the social determinants of health. Salenieks has an MA in physical education and recreation from the University of Alberta and a BPHE (bachelor’s of physical and health education) from the University of Toronto.

Host

Dan Samosh is an Assistant Professor in Employment Relation at Queen’s University and Academic Co-Lead of the IDEA Incubator Hub on Transitions to Work and Career Development.

About the IDEA Speaker Series

The IDEA Speaker Series provides an opportunity to hear guest speakers talk about their efforts to create stronger and more diverse labour markets that include persons with disabilities.