20th – 21st May 2021

Due to COVID 19 restrictions, the conference will be conducted online.

This international, multi-disciplinary conference aims to bring together scholars from various disciplines and geographic locations, policymakers, HR professionals, employers, employees, and civil society to get to know and learn from each other on the topic of LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion.

The event will showcase the state of the art of research on LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion and bring together various stakeholders committed to developing practical and sustainable solutions toward reducing workplace inequalities and increasing LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion.

Conference Program at a Glance

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Lee Badgett 

Professor of Economics |
Co-director Center for Employment Equity |
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst

M. V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she is the former director of the School of Public Policy. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute, where she was a co-founder and the first research director. She has a Ph.D. in economics from the UC Berkeley and a BA from the University of Chicago.  

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Yvonne Muthoni

Kenya Country Director |
Open For Business

Yvonne Muthoni – African, Feminist, Queer, is the Kenyan Country Director of Open For business, an organization making the case that inclusive, diverse societies are better for cities, business and for economic growth. Previously, she worked with different national and global stakeholders on diversity and inclusion best practices. Yvonne works towards fortifying the respect for human dignity for the LGBTIQ+ community.

Furthermore, she is an advocate for the mental health and wellbeing of the LGBTIQ+ community and has co-authored on the Mental Health Assessment Toolkit by Professionals in Pride Kenya where she serves as a board member.

Open For Business is a response by a number of leading global businesses to the spread of anti-LGBT sentiment in many parts of the world.

CALL FOR PAPERS (NOW CLOSED!)

We invite your submissions for a research talk.

Please submit your abstract summarizing your findings, detailing their relevance to the study of LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion, and indicating their practical implications (if there are any). Abstracts should be in the English language and may be a maximum of 200 words in length.

Abstracts will be assessed in terms of their relevance to the study of LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion and their scholarly quality. We will also take the diversity of presenters and disciplines into account. Submissions are encouraged from a wide variety of disciplines including but not limited to law, economics, psychology, and sociology, so long as they relate directly to the Conference’s theme.

IMPORTANT DATES

We would like the conference to be accessible to everyone. We hope the online nature of the conference and the absence of participation fees contribute to this. We will additionally make sure to ask presenters to articulate clearly to accommodate participants with a hearing impairment. We very much welcome your suggestions for how we can be more inclusive. Please contact us at [email protected].

Organizing Team

Prof.dr. Jojanneke van der Toorn –
Professor of LGBT Workplace Inclusion, Leiden University

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Waruguru Gaitho, LLM –
Project Assistant, Leiden University

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