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The UvA offers various courses and workshops to help staff and students recognise socially unsafe situations, identify undesirable behaviour, practise active listening, and learn how to deal with its consequences.

For all staff

  • What one person perceives as undesirable behaviour may not be an issue for someone else. The Social Safety e-learning course (in Dutch) raises awareness on the topic and explains where to turn at the UvA if you are affected by undesirable behaviour.
  • If you want to learn how to intervene when you witness undesirable behaviour, the Active Bystander toolkit (PDF, 8 p.p., in Dutch) provides concrete interventions for different types of situations.
  • The Arboportaal (Dutch government portal on working conditions) offers extensive information on various forms of undesirable workplace behaviour, such as discrimination, agression and violece, bullying, and sexual harassment.
  • Watch the TED Talk 'How do you build a psychologically safe workplace?' by Amy C. Edmondson (Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School), in which she explains how silence can become the norm at work – and how to change that.

For lecturers

Lecturers can find all training courses related to social safety on the UvA Teaching & Learning Centre website. For example a course on Guiding discussions, focussed on guiding discussions on important topics.

For students

An overview of all training sessions and courses on social safety for students is available on student.uva.nl, on the page Training and Workshops on Undesirable Behaviour.