Outfits impact the impression others have of the wearer, and more so for women than for men. Yet, how clothing impacts the evaluation of women’s leadership potential is a largely unexplored topic in the field of management. This research aims to examine how clothing can help women overcome the double-bind of leadership; namely, to be seen as both agentic and leader-like and as communal and woman-like. In a series of studies, I will examine what characteristics of clothing are associated with leadership potential for women and whether adherence to these characteristics affect actual influence of women in groups.

Self-managing organisations (SMOs) promise no managers, little hierarchy, and put decision-making in the hands of employees. Yet, while more SMOs have emerged in response to calls for increased transparency, empowerment, and adaptability in the face of turbulent macro conditions, it is unclear how much they deliver on these promises. Through an ambitious study of 20 SMOs, I move beyond the debate about whether self-management is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ to explore which fundamental assumptions about management and organizations SMOs challenge (and which they do not). Hereby this project aims to contribute to management literature, organizational design, and employment policy.

Public Safety is vital for the functioning of societies: Without safety there is no freedom, no happiness, and no prosperity. The public good of safety matters to all of us, and therefore needs to be jointly shaped and maintained by all societal partners. Data generated by multiple agents play an increasingly important role in the prevention, preparedness and mitigation of harm or disaster. The development of an ecosystem of trust regarding AI assisted public safety promotion is central to this ELSA Lab application. In a variety of use cases benefits and safeguards are analyzed against the private-public-machine agency backdrop.

The goal of this ELSA lab network project is to contribute to the realisation of impact with ELSA labs. The network project will facilitate ELSA lab knowledge production and dissemination and investigate the lessons learned from the construction and first developments of the ELSA labs. The lessons learned will be translated into an ELSA lab blueprint consisting of a set of guiding principles regarding ELSA lab collaboration, methods, impact and sustainability. Knowledge production and dissemination will be facilitated by an ELSA lab learning network, for which this network project will lay the foundation.

Many people work in multiple teams at the same time. While this means that they get to meet many colleagues across their different teams, it also means that they have little time to build meaningful relationships in each of their teams. This may leave them to feel treated like an outsider rather than being fully included in the workplace. This project will examine how working on multiple teams at the same time affects workplace inclusion of women and men and develop practical solutions to offset potential negative effects that working in multiple teams can have on workplace inclusion of employees.