Enhancing student's resilience
15 november 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
Drumroll and confetti, there is a new publication in the framework of my PhD research on student well-being in relation to the academic learning environment! After having interviewed students and teachers about their perceptions on students’ well-being and learning environment (see this publication) shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked two students, two teachers, and […]
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4 oktober 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
Last week I had the pleasure of presenting my newest research paper on resilience at the resilience symposium organised by the Leibniz-Institut for resilience research (LIR) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz – my own university, at which I studied for six years. I had a great time discussing my own research, but also general perspectives on […]
9 augustus 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
In July, I spent a month “down under”, presenting my research at the STARS and HERDSA conferences in Brisbane and Melbourne (online), as well as meeting fellow researchers such as Rachael Field at Bond University at the Gold Coast and Chi Baik at the University of Melbourne. It has been an immense pleasure to get […]
30 mei 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
This summer, I will present two of my studies as posters at the HERDSA and STARS conferences in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia, and I am beyond excited already! Therefore, I wanted to share the posters with you beforehand. First, I will present the preliminary results of our intervention evaluation study, based on the data gathered […]
17 mei 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
At the end of April, a colleague of mine – Bilge – and I joined the ENLGHT programme “Teaching for Global Citizenship in European classrooms: A challenge-based approach” as mentors for students tackling different challenges surrounding inclusion and diversity in the classroom in beautiful Ghent, Belgium (leading to 3 study points for the students). As […]
5 april 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
Last week, we presented a poster of our initial findings surrounding the effectiveness of our board game intervention. I really enjoyed the good – and sometimes critical – conversations with other academics, seeing the immense extent to which the topic keeps us busy in higher education! We are currently testing the intervention again in five […]
Whoop whoop, there is a new publication out there! Miranda Trippenzee and I examined how university students experienced the COVID-19 pandemic in regard to their learning environment, with a specific focus on how the remote learning environment satisfied their basic psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, how they interacted with their fellow students and what […]
1 maart 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
I love this moment when you hold a finished product in your hands after months and years of research: We designed a board game to promote students’ basic psychological needs in higher education, hopefully fostering their well-being in class. Currently, we are testing and evaluating the game as part of an intervention in five different […]
21 februari 2023 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
In the framework of the TAG Education Festival on March 30th, I will be presenting our first findings surrounding our intervention tailored to promote student well-being by means of basic psychological need satisfaction. The session will take place between 4 and 5pm at the University of Groningen, at the House of Connections at the Grote […]
9 november 2022 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
by Lisa Kiltz I’m in the forth year of my PhD. By now, I’ve struggled with a lot of (self-imposed) stress, lack of resilience, sudden crying, and the feeling of being completely overwhelmed. I’ve seen colleagues going in and out of burnout, experiencing impostor phenomenon and being sabotaged by their perfectionism. In short – PhD […]
12 oktober 2022 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
by Lisa Kiltz In the framework of a bigger project, I got the chance to teach university teachers in Poland about student and teacher well-being! It was a really great experience and I was very nervous beforehand – unjustified, as it turned out. They were a very cool crowd and open for discussions and reflections […]
27 juli 2022 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
After two years of waiting, hoping, crossing fingers, getting disappointed, and presenting everything online, with no visual audience or fruitful discussions, I finally got the pleasure to attend real-life in-person conferences! This last month, I visited the EARLI SIG 1&4 conference focusing on higher education in Cádiz, Spain, and the JURE conference for EARLI junior […]
14 juli 2022 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
We proudly announce that we have published the pre-print of our current paper about student well-being one year into the COVID-19 pandemic that we wrote together with Miranda Trippenzee and Joke Fleer from the University Medical Center Groningen! In this manuscript, we explore the contextual factor and basic psychological needs that affected student well-being throughout […]
23 juni 2022 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
This year, I will attend the first student health conference in Mainz, the city I studied, lived, and worked in for eight years – so this is something quite special for me! At this conference, I will present the preliminary results of my intervention study, testing a game-approach to enhance student well-being in resilience in […]
28 april 2022 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
by Lisa Kiltz I’m really excited! Spring is here, which means that summer is just around the corner and with it the next conference season – and, most importantly, my first in-person conference season! This year, we will be presenting our preliminary results of our ongoing intervention study at the JURE conference for young researchers […]
4 november 2019 / 5 februari 2025 door Lisa Kiltz
We are proud to announce that we just entered the first phase of the Ph.D. project! In the next months, we will have interviews with different stakeholders of student well-being. Hence, we will talk to students as well as professors and university staff such as study advisors and psychologists. After having held four interviews in […]
