Report Atelier Prosperity Atelier Prosperity, 29 th of April, 2pm -6pm at the U-Residence •
Theme and process: o This Atelier was lead by Valéry Ann Jacobs, who’s equally leading the taskforce Interpersonal Relationships, appointed in the aftermath of the #MeToo-case(s) involving our university, with the support of Marketing, Communications and Engagement (Marcom) and the project The World Needs You o The theme that we tackled in this Prosperity-atelier was transgressive behaviour within our university, more specifically through cases of interpersonal relationships (with or without hierarchy dynamics) where buttom-up input was needed to achieve and derive concrete action points or policies o
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These cases of interpersonal relationships were discussed: ▪ What if someone is part an evaluation or promotion board in which a child of their own is evaluated? ▪ What if someone is part of a board that makes decisions about a department in which a family member works? ▪ What if a professor who has a consensual intimate/sexual relationship with a PhD student be their supervisor? ▪ Should action be taken when there are rumours in a department about a colleague's relationship with someone at work (whether it be extramarital or not)? ▪ Social media usage and connections between students and teaching staff/professors: guidelines to establish boundaries? ▪ A member of the academic staff initiates an intimate, emotional and sexual relationship with a student/doctoral candidate. There is a certain hierarchy in academic position but both parties consented to this relationship. What consequences do you foresee if: • The academic member works at university A, and the student studies at university B? • Both are attached to the same university, but the academic member works at Faculty A, and the student studies at University B, so that in practice they never come into professional contact with each other? • (Student version) Both are attached to the same university and Faculty. The academic staff member teaches the student and examines the course. • d(Doctoral student version) Both are attached to the same university, faculty and research group. The academic staff member is (or is not) the supervisor of the PhD student.
We worked through and tested the Flanders DC GPS-method in which each of the 4 groups during 4 different phases, were asked to switch tables and built upon the ideas of the previous group, resulting into 4 different project canvases (with their accompanying flipcharts and separate ideas on sticky notes) below. Participants: about 22 participants in total Number of project canvases at the end of the workshop: 4 General feedback from the participants:
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