Living diversity - but how?

Caroline Rowland © MPI for Psycholinguistics Caroline Rowland © MPI for Psycholinguistics - How do you successfully develop a long-term strategy for a diverse and inclusive culture? The MPI for Psycholinguistics has set up a local working group to tackle this challenge There are currently 14 local diversity groups within the Max Planck Society. One of them is the Diversity and Inclusion working group at the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Holland. Initiated by Director Caroline Rowland, it began its work in January 2021. Since then, the group, consisting of 22 participants from various areas of the Institute, has been driving comprehensive cultural change - from the inside out. Whether inclusive language on the website and publications, diversity trainings for employees or internships for people with a minority background: some of the measures from the long-term strategy that the working group developed within a year are already being implemented at the Institute. Currently, the Institute is advertising for a Diversity & Inclusion Officer to further advance the implementation of the strategy - another measure from the strategy paper. Maggie Wong © MPI for Psycholinguistics Maggie Wong © MPI for Psycholinguistics - The cooperation in the working group has already achieved a great deal - not least among the participants, who agree that they have learned a lot: about their own perspectives and those of others.