dr. S (Seval) Gündemir

Biography

Seval Gündemir (she/her) is Associate Professor in the Department of People and Organisations at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Her research examines intergroup relations in the workplace and the management of diversity, equity and inclusion, with particular attention to employee resistance to DEI efforts, workplace bias, diversity in leadership positions, and inclusivity in higher education institutions. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychologist, and Current Opinion in Psychology, has received paper and symposium awards from the Academy of Management, and has been featured in outlets such as Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, Vox, and The Washington Post.

She obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Work and Organizational Psychology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (both cum laude) and completed her PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology at the same university in 2015, part of which she conducted at Yale University as a Fulbright scholar. She subsequently completed postdoctoral training at Columbia Business School in New York. Before joining RSM, she was an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam.

Her research has been funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) through Mosaic, Rubicon and VIDI grants, as well as an Advancing Equity in Academia Through Innovation grant for a consortium project on inclusive leadership in academic institutions. Her current VIDI project examines employee resistance to diversity efforts in organizations. She supervises several PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers.

Alongside her research she teaches Managing Diversity at master's level and contributes to leadership development programmes for executive audiences. She is a member of RSM's IDEA Steering Committee and the Young Erasmus Academy, and serves on the board of Stichting NOA, a non-profit focused on equitable recruitment and selection.