The following text appeared in our internal Utrecht Young Academy newsletter. At @stefanievrancken's request, we are happy to share it here too, as it is a topic that also touches on E&W. How can we be more caring within academia? This is a question we have been asking ourselves with increasing urgency in recent times.The past few years have been marked by serious budget cuts, increasing polarization and work pressure. For that reason, the Utr...
Zo kan de 'peer review' radicaal anders Gemaakt én gecontroleerd door wetenschappers, dat is het kwaliteitsstempel waarmee wetenschappelijke kennis steevast ter wereld komt. Maar achter de schermen rommelt het: zo betrouwbaar is dat stempel allang niet meer. Een internationale groep academici – deels onder Nederlandse vlag – wil het helemaal anders doen Door Maarten Keulemans Illustraties Fien Jorissen de Volkskrant Elke dag krijgt hij er ...
THEMED SESSION 2 --> REGISTER At the core of every PhD trajectory is academic research. However, in practice PhD candidates do much more–they are involved in education, supervision, outreach, policy advice, setting up networks with societal partners, and maintaining Open-Science infrastructures, to mention just a few examples. Many of these activities appear high on the strategic agendas of universities, but they are rarely officially recognis...
THEMED SESSION 1 --> REGISTER The so-called ‘Strategy Evaluation Protocol’ (SEP for friends) is a unique Dutch approach to research evaluation at the level of research institutes. It prescribes how universities periodically have to evaluate themselves in their own context. In this interactive session three experienced evaluators unpack the workings of the SEP in the light of Recognition & Rewards. The underlying principles and evaluation crit...
THEMED SESSION 3 --> REGISTER Changing policies and career frameworks is only one part of strengthening the recognition and reward of university teaching. The success of these reforms ultimately rests on how they are experienced by theacademic community. Drawing on findings from three waves of the Teaching Cultures Survey, this session willexplore some of the key drivers of cultural change and the factors that appear to shape academics’ exper...
Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here???s h...
Hoeveel wetenschappelijke publicaties hebben Nederlandse universiteiten gepubliceerd in 2025? In ...
