Check out the new Fresh Forward podcast episode where Anke de Vrieze and I were interviewed by the marvellous facilitator and mistress of #transformativelearning Neža Krek! In this #FreshForward episode, Anke and I talk about some of our initiatives at #WageningenUniversity like the Transformative Learning Hub and the #WASS #transformative & #participatory action #research #methods (TPAR) course for PhD candidates and early career scholars as well as our more recent work with

Developing interdisciplinary research is no easy task. It takes time and effort to build creative, fruitful and joyous interdisciplinary collaborations. And the complexity of interdisciplinary research requires the awareness and use of a specific set of competences for which not all academics are optimally prepared. Together with a great team, I've been working with the Centre for Unusual Collaborations (CUCo) since late 2021 to help re-envision its Spark and Unusual Collabor

Do you like to think outside of the box? Are you keen to hone your interdisciplinary research skills? Are you working at WUR, TU/e, UU or UMC Utrecht? Then join us for the Centre for Unusual Collaborations' (CUCo) Spark journey! This is your chance to meet, explore ideas and develop research together with other like-minded scholars from an array of disciplinary backgrounds from WUR, TU/e, UU and UMC Utrecht! We have a few more spots available! Register for the Spark journey b

Join me at the Roots Guide's official book launch on Thursday, 9 June (20:00-21:30) at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam! Register here: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/roots-guide (Attend in person or online!) The Roots Guide interactive guidebook takes an inclusive, out-of-the-box approach to address anti-immigration sentiment in the Netherlands. Through written, visual, audio and experiential means, its guides with diverse migration backgrounds bring Roots Guide users on inne

Our #Migrantour Utrecht intercultural companions-in-training went to Rotterdam on Saturday! We first headed to the #Wereldmuseum to get inspiration from its exhibits for adults and kids about life in a superdiverse city. #Superstraat -- an immersive sensory experience designed for kids -- was especially delightful and insightful. We also really appreciated hearing from our guide Carla about what it takes to be a guide and the museum's moves towards acknowledging the condition

Rural Migrantour is an #ErasmusPlus KA2 project that brings together Terra Vera (Slovenia), Stichting Pocket Stories (The Netherlands), Viaggi Solidali (Italy), Paths of Greece (Greece), LAG Svilengrad (Bulgaria), Foundation Nuto Revelli (Italy) and Jungi Mundu (Italy). Its goal is not only to expand the thriving #Migrantour responsible tourism network (https://lnkd.in/evc7je6q) but also, for the first time, to develop rural guided walking tour routes that recognise and honou