Someone recently told me that academia has become a “meat-eating flower”. The image still haunts me. On the surface, the university is like a garden in bloom, a place of wisdom and truth. Beautiful yes, but beneath that lies a predator. It’s a ”flower” that consumes the life force and mental health of anyone […]
Yesterday, I attended the symposium organized by the KNAW and the Jonge Akademie on the topic of “Profkippen”—professors supervising an excessive number of PhD candidates. The background document highlights that a dramatic rise in PhD FTEs since 2019 has outpaced the growth of supervisory capacity, creating a “hourglass” structure that compromises quality and well-being. While […]
In academia today, love has become a subversive force. I mean the kind of love rooted in intellectual dedication, ethical responsibility and commitment to truth, justice and wonder. The kind of love that listens, stays with complexity, and refuses to reduce people to data points or knowledge to commodities. This love asks not only what […]
In the middle of isolation and social distancing measures I connected with two wonderful PhD candidates from Austria and Portugal, who also are a coach and a coachee or coaching client, for an open and honest conversation about the benefits and rewards of PhD coaching. We spanned Europe to talk about the human aspects of […]
Tünde Erdös is a highly experienced executive coach who is currently doing her PhD research on coaching presence and the impact it has on coaching effectiveness with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam Business Research Centre, NL in collaboration with Ashridge Centre for Coaching, UK as well as Case Western Reserve University, US. In other words, she […]
For her PhD project Katharina Lemmens-Krug (MSc UTwente) is studying challenges of present-day universities regarding their governance – more specifically concerning steering capacity of university leadership and the relation with centres for excellence in teaching and learning. In this interview dr. Claartje van Sijl talks with her about ways to understand excellence from the individual […]
For her PhD project Katharina Lemmens-Krug (MSc UTwente) is studying challenges of present-day universities regarding their governance – more specifically concerning steering capacity of university leadership and the relation with centres for excellence in teaching and learning. In this interview dr. Claartje van Sijl talks with her about ways to understand excellence from the individual […]
The new Code for Research Integrity does not have the power it could have had, I argue. A code that only refers to research and not to acting with integrity in the broadest sense ipso facto cannot guarantee research integrity. (A Dutch version of this article as been published on ScienceGuide.nl) Questions with which researchers […]
Judith Zijlstra (MA) is doing a part-time PhD project in sociology and migration studies. She investigates international mobility in academic careers of Iranians and the ways they translate professional experience from one context to the other. In this interview dr. Claartje van Sijl (independent career coach for academics) discusses with her what makes an international […]