Research projects
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Calcium Looping To Capture Co2 From Industrial Processes By 2030 (CaLby2030)
CaLby2030 focuses on TRL6 demonstration of its pioneering Calcium Looping (CaL) CO2 capture systems using the wellestablished Circulating Fluidised Bed (CFB) technology to a state ready for largescale commercial deployment by 2030.
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AZOPRO - Azolla farming on rewetted agricultural lands
The AzoPro project investigates the potential of Azolla for phosphate removal from former agricultural lands in transition to nature.
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Anatomy education through augmented reality
Students struggle with visualising anatomic structures and their underlying proportions. Lucas Boer en Dylan Henssen work together on an AR-app in which the structures are visualised more clearly.
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Improving communication skills of medical students
Medical students indicate that they receive too little feedback on their communication skills. Ellemieke Rasenberg is investigating whether recording student patient conversations and peer reviewing them by fellow students can offer a way out.
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Experiencing force by using a VR-game
The basic concept of force is often hard to grasp for students of physics. Jan van Riswick researches whether virtual reality can help students better understand force in different contexts, like on earth or in space.
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Working with scrum (agile) in academic education.
Paul Ketelaar researches the effectiveness of the scrum method in higher education. The goal is that through this method students work on (partial) assignments and learn to work together and communicate better.
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Curriculum redevelopment at Dentistry using CARPE DIEM
Wietste Fokkinga researches if the method CARPE DIEM is appropriate to use for curriculum and course redevelopment. The goal is to carry out this redevelopment in a structured way with the preservation of blended learning.
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A Community of Practice as a connecting factor
Yvonne van Rossenberg investigates the power of working in a Community of Practice. She researches what this method of working can mean for education and for the relationship between students and academic research.
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Research into the added value of the Academic Writing course
Recently, the university offers students a free Academic Writing course to students, to improve their writing skills. Caro Struijke investigates how this contributes to improving self-efficacy, language and writing skills.
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Research into motivating and stimulating characteristics in honours education
Maarten de Boer researches which factors are experienced as motivating by honours students and lecturers. The aim is to create a learning environment in which students' motivation is retained and further stimulated.
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Picking route: Learning in a multi-level context
Students indicate they want more attention for interdisciplinary education that connects to complex contemporary issues. Maartje Cobussen and Marijn van Klingeren research what is needed when this form of learning is implemented in academic education
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Professional identity development during the bachelor's research internship
A team lead by Wiljan Hendriks is researching the development of a professional identity during the bachelor's internship. They hope to use this knowledge to improve internships so that students can better prepare for their working life.
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InternShifts: doing an internship together in the laboratory
Koen van den Dries has the ambition to reduce the shortage of internships in research laboratories. To realise this, he is investigating the effectiveness of a strategy called 'InternShift', in which students are paired together for an internship.
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A double-edged sword: education-related professional orientation in the Political Science Bachelor’s programme
Lecturer International Relations Gerry van der Kamp-Alons (Political Science) gives students Political Science a realistic idea of teaching in secondary education with her Comenius project.
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First things first: ensuring a safe and inclusive environment as a foundation for an international curriculum
Prof. dr. Liedeke Plate received a comenius scholarship for the project 'First things first'. It redeveloped Radboud University’s Arts and Culture Studies (ACS) mentoring programme to include international and intercultural competences.
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Adaptive and Autonomous: how the student of today develops into the professional of tomorrow
Mariska Kleemans, associate professor at the Communication Science programme, received a Comenius Senior Fellowship for creating a learning path Professionalisation.
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On the Move: Transition towards Sustainable Mobility
The negative effects of spatial mobility (e.g. congestion, unsafety, fossil fuel use and land use), create a strong pressure to transition towards a more sustainable mobility system. This asks for trend-breaking change strategies.
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ANTHROBROKERS
Ethnographic research project that analyses the role of brokerage (the social mechanism of mediation between different groups or levels in society) in urban governance, citizen participation and initiatives, and impact on state/citizen relations
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Biodiversity education in the 21st century
Every year, the Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) awards Comenius grants to renewal projects in education. Constant Swinkels and Wilco Verberk developed a biodiversity expedition app as learning material.
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Prevention and Health
The Prevention and Health project of Radboud University and Radboudumc aims to find out how health differences between citizens can be reduced.