source: website TU/e Wellbeing series: @andreakis dealt with a burnout and personal change during her PhD. Now, she’s pursuing change in the academic world through conversation such as the event Responsible Research Conversations on Thursday, September 18. Photo: Bart van OverbeekeAs a third generation PhD researcher from Hungary, Andrea Kis was following a family tradition when she arrived at TU/e in late 2019 to start her PhD. Her resea...
februari 2026, bron: website KNAW Wetenschap is tegenwoordig meer dan publiceren en subsidies binnenhalen. In het landelijke programma Erkennen & Waarderen (E&W) staan bijvoorbeeld ook het belang van leiderschap, samenwerking en maatschappelijke impact centraal. De KNAW ondersteunt dit programma als aanjager van de wetenschap én als werkgever van twaalf instituten. Samen met Leo Lucassen, directeur IISG en oud-voorzitter van de Stuurgroep E&W...
February 2026 TU/e door @brigitspan “Innovation is the holy grail of science, but the drive for novelty has taken on obsessive forms.” Engineer-philosopher Krist Vaesen wrote a book on neomania in science: Krist Vaesen with his book Neomania. Photo: Bart van Overbeeke Science is driven by an insatiable hunger for innovation. But this fixation on novelty does not make science stronger. It makes it more vulnerable, argues engineer-philosop...
OPROEP deze podcastserie is EXPLICIET bedoeld voor de mid-career wetenschapper die het Erkennen & Waarderen programma nog niet volledig heeft doorgrond. BEN JIJ zo iemand of nog beter: KEN JIJ (via via wellicht) zo'n keihard werkende (en juist vanwege al dit fantastische toegewijde werk) moeilijk te traceren academicus? Deel dit bericht, luister de podcast en verzeker jezelf of de ander van een plunjezakje bagage dat verrijkt op weg naar een t...
CALL TO ACTION This podcast series is SPECIFICALLY intended for mid-career academics who do not yet fully understand the Recognition & Rewards programme. Are you such a person, or better yet, do you know (perhaps through others) such a hard-working (and precisely because of all that fantastic dedicated work) hard-to-find academic? Share this message, listen to the podcast, and ensure yourself or the other person a wealth of knowledge that will...
bron: UToday Edwin Zondervan is hoogleraar Process Systems Engineering aan de Universiteit Twente, en speelt graag een potje rugby met zijn studenten. Hij schrijft een maandelijkse column over de dynamiek van systemen, wetenschap, onderwijs en samenwerking. Maar ook over de zin en onzin van het academische. PHOTO BY: RIKKERT HARINK Er zijn van die momenten waarop een universiteit even in de spiegel moet kijken. De afgelopen weken was zo’n ...
When you are in a leadership position* in academia ánd you are curious about how to embodie Recognition and Rewards consequently in your behaviour, we genuinly recommend you to listen to the third episode of the Fairly Racognised podcast! Professor Marieke Adriaanse In an open and honest conversation, professor Marieke Adriaanse explains what seduced and motivates her to commit to Recognition & Rewards since ten years. One of her distinctive ...
bron: website Utoday 13/11/2025 Three young academics sent in this opinion piece. They challenge senior scholars’ backlash against the UT’s decision to abolish cum laude, questioning why a title for fewer than 5 percent of PhDs matters more than deeper issues of fairness and inequality. ‘Are we saying the work of more than 95 percent of PhD graduates is barely adequate?’ A PhD defence at the UT, photo taken by Oleksandr Mialyk. Reading the neg...
bron: website Nature (comment) Universities are in thrall to a rankings system that prioritizes narrow aspects of academic life. Three changes would give institutions the freedom to explore fresh ways of working. University reputations and finances often hinge on their position in global ranking tables. Students use rankings to quickly identify the best place to study — or, at least, what might be perceived to be the best by any future employe...
In this first episode, programme manager @sanlifaez speaks with Dr @alexrushforth, a scholar in the sociology of science and science policy. His research focuses on research evaluation, bibliometrics, science governance and science and technology studies. Alex recently wrote a critical commentary on the Netherlands’ Recognition & Rewards programme. He argues that: “The initiative has been largely effective in mobilising formal organisational ...