Description: Various forms of power abuse—some of considerable severity—occur within academic institutions: bullying, exploitation, sexual harassment, data and authorship manipulation, as well as misuse and waste of public funds. Awareness of these issues has been growing significantly in recent years. Professor Leising will outline key concepts relevant to the theoretical discourse. He will then analyze how patterns of systematic abuse of power can emerge and persist over long periods within academic institutions. Based on this analysis, Professor Leising will present promising structural-level countermeasures and identify the institutions responsible for implementing them.

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Daniel Leising

Daniel Leising is Professor of Psychological Assessment and Intervention at TU Dresden. He is a member of the Network for Sustainable Science and chaired the commission on "Incentive Systems, Abuse of Power, and Scientific Misconduct" of The German Psychological Society (DGPs) from 2022 to 2024. 

Language: German

Zoom webinar registration:
https://uni-frankfurt.zoom-x.de/webinar/register/WN_jVcaDCnhSHSrt3hXUTEl0w

The lecture is part of the RMU Winter Series 2025: Challenging Abuse of Power in Academia, organized by the Gender Equality Office of TU Darmstadt, the Equality and Diversity Office at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and the Equal Opportunities Office at Goethe University Frankfurt.