“During the event over 60 participants learnt about methods to render visible the past and current ties between Dutch universities and fossil companies, like Shell, and reasons to do so.” Last week on March 16, 2023 the Mapping fossil ties symposium organised by S4F Wageningen was held in Wageningen, to deepen our knowledge about the […]

The WUR Transformative Learning Hub in collaboration with the Centre for Unusual Collaborations organizes: Workshop: Embracing multiperspectivity Registration required: Registration for CUCo’s Embracing Multiperspectivity Workshop (google.com) What can we learn from artists in our daily struggle when collaborating with others? How do artists use their senses, give meaning to emotions & feelings and collaborate with […]

Would you like to join us exploring a new, salutogenic perspective on coping with climate anxiety? If yes, then register for the free webinar organised by Laura Bouwman (HSO, Wageningen University), Leah Rosen (HSO, Wageningen University) and Marguerite Daniels (University of Bergen) on March 24th, 13:00-15:00 PM.  We would like to invite you to join […]

Event description Lula’s victory in the 2022 Brazilian election was accompanied by a solid commitment to tackle climate change, including the goal of zero deforestation by 2030. A new Plan to Halt Deforestation is expected, comprising all Brazilian biomes beyond the Amazon alone. Action to confront illegal operations has already begun, for example in the […]

Text and photos Merissa Gavin Re-negotiating precarity: Migrant fruit pickers in southern SpainFor my ongoing thesis research, I am interested in how migrant workers in Spain’s agri-food industry navigate politically induced precarity. Precarity, within the scope of this research, refers to the instability of immigrants’ status in society as they embody the paradox of being […]

Jennifer Ahern-Dodson & Monique Dufour (2023) The Productivity Trap:Why We Need a New Model of Faculty Writing Support, Change: The Magazine of HigherLearning, 55:1, 24-30, DOI: 10.1080/00091383.2023.2151800 Read full article

The ETC Summerschool 2023 will be held from the 18th of June – 30th of June 2023 and will be hosted by the University of Chester, UK. The theme of this years summerschool is “Strengthening Community Health and Wellbeing: putting the Art back into Public Health”. We have a very attractive and creative programme (click […]

Picture by https://www.phddefencephoto.com/ On the 6th of December, dr. Marja de Jong successfully defended her dissertation entitled: “Voorstad on the move to better health”. Four questions to Marja about combining her PhD research with a job as advisor of the Municipal Health Service (GGD). Why did you start this combination, a PhD in addition to your job […]

Kai-Sean Lee, Stefanie Benjamin, The death of tourism scholarship… unless…, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 98, 2023, 103520, ISSN 0160-7383. “Our graduate students need to publish more,” says Professor Publish. “If they want to compete in today’s higher education job market, they will need at least three publications by graduation, maybe five to be safe.” […]

By Bram Büscher and Han Wiskerke Dutch farmers have worked extremely hard to keep themselves afloat in an unsustainable farming system. This self-defeating success is now at its end. Farmers should get support and realistic options to shift to a sustainable system. And science and politics must draw lessons from this for the even greater […]

Friday, 2 December 13:30 – 15:00 Linda Yevoo (SDC) | Maternal and newborn clinical decision-making in context. Linda’s research is part of the project on maternal and newborn health care in Ghana, an NWO funded programme to investigate the cause of maternal and newborn deaths in a hospital setting in Ghana. More info. Tuesday, 6 […]

Elective course:  Resistance, Power & Movements (SDC53806) What is an effective movement? How do you feel about activism?  Do you want to learn tools on how to be politically relevant? Do you want to join a course that seeks to create a space to explore and reflect on agency and power with a focus on combining […]

In October, four of our CSPS PhD candidates successfully defended their dissertation. We are so very proud of them. congratulations to all! Two questions to dr. Tara Ruttenberg and dr. Rodrigo Alves Rolo about their experience as a PhD researcher at WUR. dr. Tara Ruttenberg (SDC) | Decolonizing Surf Tourism: Alternatives to Development, Surfer Subjectivity and […]

Drawing your attention to a new free choice course starting in P6 this academic year – RSO58806 Beyond Sustainability: Theorizing Post- & Anti-Capitalist Food Futures The course is co-taught by RSO (Mark Vicol and Oona Morrow), GEO (Chizu Sato) and SDC (Lerato Thakholi) staff. The focus of the course is a deep dive into radical […]

Political ecology@WUR invites you to a double book presentation 17th of November: Endangered species conservation: Illegal trafficking, security and transnational networks – a political ecology perspective Prof. Rosaleen Duffy (University of Sheffield) will present her book, “Security and Conservation: The Politics of the Illegal Wildlife Trade”, Yale University Press Dr. Annah Lake Zhu (WUR, ENP) […]