Clara Kulich
My research lies in the domain of intergroup relations. I am particularly interested in individuals with a low status group membership (e.g., women, immigrants, or ethnic minorities) who have achieved high status through professional upward mobility (e.g., managers), or other forms of social mobility (e.g., attaining the host nationality). I study the conditions in which minority groups achieve high status (glass cliff phenomenon, managerial gender pay gap, backlash effect), the impact of sexist behavior on women's leadership aspirations and collective action motivations, and the identity and attitudinal antecedents and consequences of social mobility (multiple identity dynamics, queen bee phenomenon).
I use a triangulation of quantitative research methods including archival studies, questionnaire-based experimental and correlational studies.
Podcast sur ma recherche :
- Apple Podcasts / Spotify /Soundcloud
Upcoming talks on my research :
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13 June 2024: G-Diversity Conference, Bern
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25 June 2024: Tlaxcala Center for Behavioral Biology, Mexico
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7 November 2024: Association suisse des psychologues du travail et des organisations, Lausanne
Past recorded talks on my research :
- 10 January 2024: Masterprogram of Business Administration & Economic psychology, Wr. Neustadt, Austria: “Leaders from underrepresented social groups: Pitfalls and perspectives” (, english)
- 23 November 2023, Diploma Ceremony, MRHC (Management, Human Ressources and Career) Continuous education, AV短视频, Switzerland: “Leadership minoritaire : Quand les chiffres cachent la réalité”
- 20 Sept 2022: Swiss Women Lawyers, Université de Neuchâtel "Glass ceilings and glass cliffs"
- 16 May 2022: GES Round Table: Gender Equality in Crisis ()
- 13 January 2022: Virtual symposium replacing that was canceled, several members of the team presented glass cliff research virtually: (2h35, english).
- 27 September 2021 (16h) (SCNAT,virtual, public, english)
Current research projects
Past research projects
THE 'GLASS CLIFF':
- MOTIVES OF PRECARIOUS MINORITY LEADERSHIP (Financed by Swiss National Science Foundation 2019-2023, )
- Additional funding: GenEx joint Seed Funding 2021: Project entitled
Collaborators: Sarah Robinson, Ruri Takizawa, Vincenzo Iacoviello, Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi (AV短视频), Yvette Assilaméhou-Kunz (AV短视频 Paris 3, France), Cristina Aelenei (AV短视频 Paris 5, France), Janine Bosak (Dublin City AV短视频, Ireland), Leire Gartzia (Deusto Business School, Spain), Michelle K. Ryan (AV短视频 of Exeter, UK; AV短视频 of Groeningen, Netherlands), S. Alexander Haslam (AV短视频 of Queensland, Australia) and many others
NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES:
- Minority groups handeling social status imporvements (Financed by Swiss National Science Foundation 2014-2018, )
Main collaborators: Marion Chipeaux (PhD student employed on this project), Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi, Vincenzo Iacoviello (AV短视频)
: Multiple Identities Management: Effects on (of) Identification, Attitudes, Behaviour and Well-being, co-edited by Clara Kulich, Soledad de Lemus, Natasza Kosawowska-Berezecka, & Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi
REACTIONS AND RESISTANCE TO SEXISM
- Leadership aspiration and collective action
Collaborators: Soledad de Lemus (AV短视频 of Granada, Spain), Pilar Montañes Muro (AV短视频 of LaRioja, Spain), Nana Ofosu, Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi
THE GENDER PAY GAP IN PERFORMANCE-BASED PAY (2005-2011)
Collaborators: Michelle K. Ryan, Grzegorz Trojanowski (AV短视频 of Exeter, UK), and S. Alexander Haslam (AV短视频 of Queensland, Australia)
BACKLASH AGAINST COMMUNAL MEN
Main collaborators: Janine Bosak (Dublin City AV短视频), Laurie Rudman (Rutgers AV短视频)
DIVERSITY AND KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP IN THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT AT CERN
MODE group: Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi (AV短视频), Chris Maybe (group leader; AV短视频 of Birmingham), Finian Buckley (Dublin City AV短视频), Markus Nordberg (CERN)
Supervision
Doctoral Students
Present:
2024-ongoing "Impact and perceptions of menstruation leave" PhD in management, HEC Lausanne, university of Lausanne, co-supervised with Patrick Haack
2024-ongoing Jennyfer Niederhäuser "" PhD in social psychology , AV短视频, co-supervised with Vincenzo Iacoviello-Frederic
2021-ongoing "Study of Impressions of the Predecessor-Successor dyad in the Soccer Context", Dublin City AV短视频, co-supervised with Janine Bosak
2021-ongoing "Women's and men's self-selection into glass cliff positions and the role of perceived costs" Dublin City AV短视频, co-supervised with Janine Bosak
2021-ongoing Céline Castellino, "Self-objectification and body displayal in feminist collective action" PhD in social psychology, AV短视频 of Lausanne, co-supervised with Eva Green
2017-ongoing Nana Ofosu, "Factors influencing the likelihood of recognizing and challenging social inequalities"PhD in social psychology, AV短视频.
Past:
2020-2024 Ruri Takizawa “” (SNF project ), co-supervised with Vincenzo Iacoviello
2014-2020 Marion Chipeaux "" (SNF project ), co-supervised with Fabio Lorenzi-Cioldi
Internships
2021 Robert Somogyi (AV短视频 of Glasgow), Ethnic minorities and the glass cliff in UK poltics (Bachelor student)
2018-2019 (AV短视频 of Granada, Spain) The impact of economic inequality on psychosocial traits ascriptions in organizational contexts (Doctoral student)
Research assistant
2019-2022 “Motives of Precarious Minority Leadership: A Challenge or a Sinking Ship?” (SNF project N° 100019_188934)
Master's thesis supervisions ONGOING (UNIGE)
2023- Teodora Zejak Falaise de verre et motivation à minimiser les pertes de l’entreprise (VI, RT)
2023- Lena Veille Sexualisation du soi et action collective (CC)
2023- Nina Makhzani Sexualisation du soi et action collective (CC)
2023- Manon Vivier Quand et pourquoi les candidat-es minoritaires sont-iels nommés à des postes de direction ? (VI, RT)
2023- Merve Orhan Quand et pourquoi les candidat-es minoritaires sont-iels nommés à des postes de direction ? (VI, RT)
2023- Lucie Deiana « On ne sait plus comment se comporter » : Une analyse de l’ambivalence normative chez les hommes (VI)
2023- Samantha Veil « On ne sait plus comment se comporter » : Une analyse de l’ambivalence normative chez les hommes (VI)
2023- Eva-Annie Bernard « On ne sait plus comment se comporter » : Une analyse de l’ambivalence normative chez les hommes (VI)
2022- Yoanna-Alejandra Sanchez Diaz Granados “Objectification du soi et action collective ?” (CC)
2022- Maïlys Dagan “Effets paradoxaux du contact intergroupe” (NO)
Master's thesis supervisions (other institutions)
2019-Ongoing Friedericke Bellmann “The glass cliff in Austrian departmental elections (Landtagswahlen)” (Sigmund Freud AV短视频, Austria)
ROSALES, Elenor and LOPEZ-FERNANDES, Cristina “Effets de la prise de perspective sur les facteurs entravant la progression de carrière chez les femmes juniors” AV短视频 of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, Maîtrise 2019 (2018-2019)
Completed Master's thesis supervisions (UNIGE)
- LOURO, Paula “Mobilité sociale ascendante et attitudes envers les membres de l’intragroupe : L’impact du degré de perméabilité des frontières et de la similarité des membres du groupe” Université de Genève Maîtrise 2016 (2016-2018)
- RODRIGUEZ, Miguel Ángel Gómez “Passer la frontière groupale : Enjeux identitaires et attitudinaux des espagnols, conséquence de leur migration en Suisse romande” (part-time) Université de Genève Maîtrise 2012 (2012-2016)
- MUSTER, Celine “La performance en fonction du statut, de la performance d’autrui et de la nature des tâches” (co-supervised) uncompleted 2012-2015
- DAMACHI, Lami “Contemplating group membership – identification and perceptions of personal discrimination and privilege” Université de Genève Maîtrise 2013 (2010-2013)
- DELLA-BIANCA, Laura “Heuristique de la disponibilité et discrimination personnelle, collective et identification au groupe d’appartenance” Université de Genève Maîtrise 2012 (2010-2012)