VSNU webinar
Date
Monday 23 November 2020 to Friday 27 November 2020

The Dutch Recognition & Rewards network, the Comenius network and Ruth Graham are organising a series of webinars about recognition and rewards of university teaching, open to the full higher education community.

The first webinar will take place on Monday 23 November 9:30-11:00 (NL time). This webinar will be open by Jeroen Geurts, President of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) and board member of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The webinar will be moderated by Ruth Graham.

In the webinar, the challenges and opportunities of reforming institutional reward systems will be highlighted from a range of different perspectives. The invited speakers will provide insights regarding implemented changes in their organisations, the opportunities and challenges they face during the change process and their current or upcoming activities to enhance the process.  

There will also be room for questions and discussion among all participants.

Speakers:

  • Joe Chicharo (University of Wollongong, Australia)
  • Manon Kluijtmans (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
  • Sam Smidt (UCL, UK)
     

The second webinar will be held on Friday 27 November 9:30-11:00 (NL time). Pieter Duisenberg, president of the Dutch Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) will open the webinar and Ruth Graham will be the moderator.

The talks are designed to introduce the challenges and opportunities of driving a national/collective reform to the ways in which university teaching is rewarded and recognized, from a range of different perspectives, before opening up the meeting to discussion among all participants

Three speakers will share their insights in the change process in their organizations. The talks are designed to introduce the challenges and opportunities of driving a national/collective reform to the ways in which university teaching is rewarded and recognized, from a range of different perspectives, before opening up the meeting to discussion among all participants.

Speakers:

  • Rianne Letschert (Maastricht University, Netherlands)
  • Dato’ Mohd Saleh Jaafar (Malaysian Ministry for Higher Education)
  • Inger Askehave (Aalborg University, Denmark)
     

You can sign up for the webinars on the VSNU website.