Warmest congratulations to Dr Julian Rengers for the recent defence of his PhD dissertation!
Julian studied the “disclosure decisions” of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in the workplace. Julian writes that LGB employees “are at an increased risk of being socially excluded, harassed, and discriminated against in the workplace. They therefore face disclosure decisions (decisions about whether, and if so, how, to whom, when, where, and why to share their sexual identity - "coming out of the closet"), which can have both costs and benefits. This is a complicated process, which is informed by individual (psychological) as well as contextual (organizational) factors. Understudied so far is the influence of interpersonal (relational) factors in this process, which is what is studied in this dissertation.”
You can read Julian’s dissertation Selective disclosure at work: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Employees’ Disclosure Decisions, Motivations, and Approaches here.
Once again, congratulations to Dr Rengers!
