Teaching & Training

Wageningen University & Research's Wageningen Pre-University programme is organising Docentendag Wereldburgerschap on on 11 February. The event is for Dutch secondary school teachers of social studies, philosophy, economics, biology, geography and citizenship education.

Information and registration: https://www.wur.nl/nl/activiteit/docentendag-wereldburgerschap 

Meghann Ormond will be contributing with a workshop entitled  'Entangled Pasts: Migration, Memories, and the Creation of Dutch Heritage' ('Verstrengeld verleden: migratie, herinneringen en het creëren van Nederlands erfgoed')

Drawing from educational activities developed in the Migrantour Utrecht and Roots Guide projects, this workshop explores the concepts of past, history, and heritage by focusing on the role of migration in shaping the Netherlands over time. Although one in four people in the Netherlands has a first- or second-generation migration background, the role of migration as a formative principle in our history and cultural heritage receives little attention in the media and schools. During this workshop, we will engage in reflection and group activities that you can also use in the classroom. In this workshop, participants will connect their own experiences, family stories, and local history to broader regional, national, and global events. By creating a collaborative timeline, we will explore how personal and collective heritage are interwoven with dominant historical narratives. This will reveal the diversity of origins and experiences that continue to shape Dutch society today.

Registration:  https://wass.crs.wur.nl/courses/details/2869 

The Centre of Expertise for Transformative Mobilities at Wageningen University & Research hosts a 3 ECTS graduate workshop in Critical Tourism Studies (26 May-3 June 2026) designed for PhD candidates seeking deeper theoretical and critical engagement with tourism and mobilities. The course will enable PhD students to unravel the multiple relations surrounding tourism and its development in a range of settings refracted through their own on-going research. It will equip students with a nuanced appreciation of the socio-material and cultural dimensions of power manifest in tourism destination development, in tandem with an appreciation of the production and mobility aspects of tourism. These will be embedded with an understanding of the forces of structural power that characterize twenty-first century capitalism, empire and globalization. 

This graduate workshop is to engage graduate scholars of tourism in thinking about a plurality of tourism futures. It will equip the student with the conceptual tools to transgress highly abstracted and often idealised notions of tourism development. The graduate workshop thus moves beyond theories on tourism as a social construct and industry. It offers students a solid theoretical basis to problematize the relation between tourism and its cultural and socio-material setting. Faculty contributions draw on different disciplines (history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, political ecology, geography, economics) to rethink the relation between tourism and the world. The various sessions in the course combine the reading of foundational texts with readings of more recent academic work from critical tourism studies. 

Urgent and complex environmental and sustainability challenges often require not only scientific insights but also the involvement of those who can implement solutions or are directly affected by the changes. Addressing these challenges calls for researchers requires researchers to transcend their disciplinary knowledge and seek collaboration and knowledge integration both among different academic disciplines (interdisciplinary) and with people outside academia (transdisciplinary).

However, implementing inter- and transdisciplinary research approaches is neither simple nor straightforward. It demands new skills and competencies, as well as a rethinking of how research is designed, who is involved, and how both societal and scientific outcomes are envisioned and achieved. As you begin to adopt an inter- or transdisciplinary approach, key questions arise:  Which factors and people influence and are influenced by your research process? How do you plan, reflect, and adapt your research journey?

This interactive course is designed to equip participants with foundational concepts, practical tools, and hands-on experiences to apply inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in their own research. The course is structured around five core themes that guide participants in exploring the essential dimensions of such research: the individual, collaboration, outcomes, the research process, and reflection.

Coordinator: Jillian Student

For further information and registration: https://support.wur.nl/esc?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0016948&topic_id=7499c56eeb1f6e10c213f4efbad0cd96