What role do visible and invisible diversity characteristics play in an academic career path? In the interactive game "Who Gets To Be A Professor?", the players, as fictional characters, can follow the path from a bachelor's degree to a professorship, encountering supportive and obstructive moments and getting to know university support structures.
The innovative game was developed by the Anti-Discrimination Prevention and Counselling Centre at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg to raise awareness of diversity and discrimination in the university context in a playful way at information stands and in further education and teaching events.
The aim of the players is to become a professor. Whoever manages to climb the career ladder from bachelor's degree to professorship the fastest is the winner. The players do not play as themselves, but take on a different perspective: Their own game identity is shaped by the playing cards they draw. Booster cards advance your career, Braker cards slow down your career path, Support cards can neutralize Braker cards and Quiz cards allow you to progress if you answer diversity-specific questions correctly. Which cards are drawn is determined by the wheel of fortune, which thus becomes the wheel of fate.
