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 […]
Lees meerThis 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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
Lees meerWhoop 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 […]
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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 […]
Lees meerIn 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 […]
Lees meerI’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 well-being is an […]
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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 on academic well-being, […]
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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 […]
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