In today's episode of Our Community series, Lisa and Anastasia talk to Andrea Poorterman, a programme coordinator at Parnassos Cultuurcentrum. Our second guest is Iris Nieuwenhuizen. She works at Utrecht University for the Nationaal Programma Onderwijs (NPO), where she deals with community-building and welfare projects. She is involved in the Parnassos CultUUr Café at the Parnassos Cultuurcentrum. 

In today's episode of Our Research series, Harold is talking to Anastasia Kurysheva and Sebastian Bok. Kurysheva finished her PhD on submissions within higher education at the GSLS last year. Bok is a Masters student who give his point of view on the selection procedure at the GSLS. 

In today's episode, Harold and Maarke are talking to Suraya and Dorine about making mistakes in the lab. Suraya was Dorine's supervisor during her nine month internship. We elaborate more on Suraya's supervision style and how that impacted Dorine.

In today's episode of Our Community theme, Lisa and Harold are talking with Gijs Teunis, a PhD candidate at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) at the department of Bacterial Surveillance and Response. We follow Gijs in his journey to see what steps he takes and what he learns from them. 

In today's episode of the Your Career series, Eveline is talking to Stefan Braam. Stefan is the startup incubation lead at UtrechtInc startup incubator. UtrechtInc is the startup incubator of the University of Utrecht and the Utrecht Medical Centre.

In today's episode, Lisa and Eveline talk about the new format of Radio Life Sciences (RLS). As of today, Radio Life Sciences will have five different themes; Our Education (1), Our Research (2), Our Community (3), Your Career (4), and Our News (5). Within those five themes episodes are recorded by the different hosts of the Radio Life Sciences team.  

In today's episode, Bea talks about the General Research Profile with three guests. Our first guest is Tania Moran Luengo, policy advisor and Research Project coordinator at the Graduate School of Life Sciences. Also joining this episode is Elianne, a former student who completed this profile a few months ago and is now a Lab technician at the same lab where she ended up doing her research. Our last guest is Manuel, a Regenerative Medicine and Technology student currently following this...

In today's episode, we have a conversation with a Bio Inspired Innovation Master student, Heleen van Leur. She wrote an opinion article on why the major research project should be graded pass/fail instead of numerically back in July 2022. Also, a guest at our podcast table is Dr. Renske de Kleijn, an assistant professor at UMC Utrecht. Her work focuses on conducting and supervising educational research on feedback and self-regulation in higher education.

In today's extra long and special episode, we look back on the series and well-being with one of our newest GSLS alumni, Jacco Bakx and author Marian Donner of the guide to self-destruction book. Donner studied Psychology in Amsterdam and majored in love and passion later on. 

In today's episode, we have a conversation on diversity, equity, inclusion in relation to well-being with two experts today. First expert is Dr. Gisella van der Velden, she is an assistent professor at the Biomedical Sciences department of the GSLS, and Dr. Leoniek Wijngaards is Professor Data use for innovation in Higher Education, and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. 

In today's episode, we have a conversation on the influence of the system on well-being with a Master's student of the GSLS, Lieke Gol, who studies on the programme "Biology of Disease", and our expert Dr. Bert Arets. Dr. Bert Arets works at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital as a Pediatric pulmonologist in which he focuses on cystic fibrosis, difficult-to-treat asthma, and congenital lung diseases. 

In today's episode, we are talking about education and Covid-19. We do so together with Gijs Teunis, a One Health Masters student, and Prof. Dr. Berent Prakken (MD, PhD) vice-dean and director of the biomedical education centre and professor of pediatric immunology at the Utrecht Medical Center Utrecht (UMCU). 

In todays episode we have a conversation with Prof. Erik Scherder. He is a Dutch professor of neuropsychology affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (VU) and professor of Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen. We discuss the importance of physical activity in correlation to our well-being, as well as its long-term importance. Besides […]

In todays episode we have a conversation with Prof. Erik Scherder. He is a Dutch professor of neuropsychology affiliated with the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam (VU) and professor of Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen. We discuss the importance of physical activity in correlation to our well-being, as well as its long-term importance. Besides […]

What are different perspectives on the issue of mental well-being? A talk with a professor Floortje Scheepers (her main line of research is: innovation in medical health care) and a student of the GSLS Lieke Gol, who studies on the programme “Biology of Disease” and works in a lab at the “Experimental Neurology” department of […]

This is the introduction episode to the “Student Well-Being Series” of the Radio Life Sciences (RLS). The podcast series will consist of five episodes. Meet our hosts – prof. Harold van Rijen and Eveline Kallenberg, MSc. They introduce themselves, share their personal stories and explain, why addressing the topic of student well-being is especially relevant […]

This episode was recorded in September 2021 with the aim to give an impression about the UU GSLS introduction week (the ILS, in short) to prospective and starting students of this graduate school. In this episode, Anastasia Kurysheva talked to one of the organizers of the GSLS – dr. Kirsten Koymans and interviewed two students […]

This episode was recorded in September 2021 with the aim to give an impression about the UU GSLS introduction week (the ILS, in short) to prospective and starting students of this graduate school. In this episode, Anastasia Kurysheva talked to one of the organizers of the GSLS – dr. Kirsten Koymans and interviewed two students […]

Are you interested in academic career? This episode is dedicated to everything you wanted to know about applying for a PhD position and actually doing a PhD project. How early should you apply? What is the GSLS PhD center and how is it helpful? How should your dissertation look, according to the official requirements? Gijs […]

Are you interested in academic career? This episode is dedicated to everything you wanted to know about applying for a PhD position and actually doing a PhD project. How early should you apply? What is the GSLS PhD center and how is it helpful? How should your dissertation look, according to the official requirements? Gijs […]

During this episode, we zoom into the possibilities for masters’ research internships both at the university as well as in companies. We’ve invited three guests: two current master’s students, Georgia Avramidou and Vasiliki Gkouzioti, and one recently graduated master’s student, Laurie Kerkhof. Book recommendations of this episode: (1) ‘The Memory Game’ by Nicci French, (2) […]

During this episode, we zoom into the possibilities for masters’ research internships both at the university as well as in companies. We’ve invited three guests: two current master’s students, Georgia Avramidou and Vasiliki Gkouzioti, and one recently graduated master’s student, Laurie Kerkhof. Book recommendations of this episode: (1) ‘The Memory Game’ by Nicci French, (2) […]

This podcast presents you with another brand new profile at the GSLS – Translational Life Sciences (TLS) profile. Spiros Pachis talks to Sanne de Jong, who is the coordinator of this profile and to Joshua Elford, one the students, who chose this profile and is about to finish it. Interested to learn more about the […]