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 […]
9 maart 2022 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
Twenty-four interviews, eleven months of data collection, just as much time analysing, then writing everything up, and now, voilà! The pre-print publication of our second paper is now officially online, in which we investigated student well-being during COVID-19, their resilience factors throughout the pandemic and the role of the learning environment herein. You can find […]
26 januari 2022 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
Long time no see! We had a lot to work on and are now proud to give you a quick update on how things were going these last weeks. From the beginning, the initial aim of the whole PhD project was to create and test an intervention tailored to promote student well-being in a systemic […]
10 november 2021 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
Last week, we presented the preliminary results of our longitudinal study on student well-being in COVID-19 times at the Healthy Ageing Symposium at our Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences of the University of Groningen (check the previous entry to see the presentation; check here for more information about the symposium). It was such a […]
30 september 2021 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
And with it begins the excessive writing season! But before we can actually present some papers, I want to share with you our conference presentations. In August, we joined the JURE and EARLI conference, both of them in an online environment – and despite the remote set-up, it was an amazing experience to join, meet […]
7 juli 2021 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
Building upon the quanlitative studies we have conducted thus far, we decided to opt for a quantitative design to test our results that we found up until now. That is why we started constructing a survey study in cooperation with Miranda Trippenzee at the department of health psychology at the University Medical Center in Groningen […]
22 april 2021 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
As a small thank you for the participation in our current survey study, we wanted to provide students a resources PDF with some tips and tricks to maintain one’s psychological well-being despite COVID. Here, you can find some resources here on how to cope with a pandemic in general, one’s lifestyle, and how to study […]
18 maart 2021 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
This week, I attended the International Spring School, which should already have taken place last year in person, but, unfortunately, had to be rescheduled and put into an online context. In this framework, I presented the current status of our project on student well-being and resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands and our […]
17 december 2020 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
by Lisa Kiltz Already in our first paper, Raven Rinas and I were focusing on the interaction of teacher and student well-being and found that both of them are interacting. The lesson is clear: When I am well as a teacher, they will be better off as well. This is why teacher well-being is also […]
29 oktober 2020 / 22 januari 2025 door Marjon Fokkens-Bruinsma
by Lisa Kiltz We are currently still interviewing our participants on issues surrounding student well-being during this COVID-19 period, how their well-being has been affected, which role the learning environment plays herein, and which aspects helped them through these times. As a small sneak preview, we want to present our study timeline, placing the four […]
