Department: Department of Work, Organisation and Society

  • Eva Derous

    Eva Derous earned her PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Leuven University. She worked at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and is currently employed as a full professor personnel psychology/HRM at the Vocational and Personnel Psychology Lab of the Department of Work, Organisation and Society at Ghent University. Her research focuses -among other topics- on recruitment and personnel selection procedures, with specific attention for diversity, inclusion and discrimination-related issues (ethnicity, age, and gender). She received a Fulbright research grant from the KNAW/Fulbright Center Amsterdam to stay at Michigan State University (USA), serves on editorial boards of several international journals, and has published in journals such as Personnel Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management Review. From an evidence-based perspective, she provides consultancy for companies and local business partners.

  • Delphine Van Muylem

    Delphine’s research is focused on (ethnic) diversity in the organizational context. She has obtained her masters’ degree in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2022 and started as a PhD student in the VoPP lab in December 2022. Her PhD project aims to study metastereotypes in job ads. As job seekers might be mindful of others’ beliefs about the group they identify with, these metastereotypes might refrain (ethnic) minorities from applying. Delphine investigates what the impact of these metastereotypes is on ethnic minority applicants. In this project, different research methods are used, ranging from qualititive methods, to surveys or eye-tracking. This project is a collaboration with the Department of Experimental Psychology of the FPPW and financed by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).