Utrecht University's education, research, and educational research: Interactive Q&A with Bald de Vries
Bald de Vries, Carlijn van den Boomen, Emanuel van Dongen, Renske de Kleijn & Irma Meijerman
You have probably heard about Higher Education Research and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning during your time at Utrecht University. However, you may have some doubts and questions about these two topics of interest?
The UU and the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning together have a main mission: facilitating and stimulating teachers and staff to investigate their own education and its practices and implement innovations to daily improve higher education at our university. Therefore, the Scholarship of Teaching and Education (SoTL) and Higher Education Research (HER) have been established. SoTL helps to facilitate and finance small-scale projects regarding your own education, such as the implementation of new teaching activities. HER aids to facilitate exchange and collaboration between researchers of different disciplines to increase our shared knowledge about higher education.
What kind of support can you expect from SoTL and HER? How do you investigate your own educational practices? Which steps do you need to take as preparation for educational research?
Bald de Vries moderates an interactive Q&A-session for all your remaining questions, together with Irma Meijerman, Renske de Kleijn, Carlijn van den Boomen and Emanuel van Dongen.
Biography
Prof. mr. dr. Bald de Vries is Professor of Interdisciplinary Legal Education and Academic Director of the CAT. As Academic Director, he is co-responsible for the pillar of educational scholarship and encourages teachers to adopt an evidence-informed attitude towards their own teaching practice. He also pioneers innovations in the field of interdisciplinary legal education.
Dr. ir. Irma Meijerman studied Environmental Hygiene at Wageningen University and obtained het PhD in Toxicology in Leiden. Currently, besides her position as Associate Professor at the faculty of Science, she is a principal fellow of the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning, which is driven by her particular interest in the professional development of teachers in higher education and educational scholarship. Furthermore, she is the vice president Europe of the international Society for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom.
Renske de Kleijn, PhD, studied Educational Sciences and currently works as an Associate Professor at the Education Center of the University Medical Center Utrecht. Her work focuses on conducting and supervising educational research on the topics of feedback and self-regulation in higher education in general and (bio)medical education in particular. She is passionate about doing research for and with those who design and implement education.
Dr. Carlijn van den Boomen is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychology and Cluster Chair at the University College Utrecht. She focuses on interdisciplinary education and thus developed and currently coordinates the interdisciplinary course Dynamics of youth. In her research, she tries to unravel the various influences on the development of facial emotion recognition, that guide social interactions.
Mr. dr. Emanuel van Dongen is Associate Professor at the Molengraaff Institute for privacy law where he teaches various courses and supervises students during their theses. Furthermore, he is researching civil liability law and litigation from a historical and comparative perspective.