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.

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 examines how tourism is entangled with broader socio-environmental dynamics, governance systems, power relations, and inequalities. Rather than treating tourism simply as an economic engine, participants explore how places, people, and environments are shaped through complex social, material, and cultural relations.

Students are invited to move beyond simplified binaries such as good/bad tourism or global/local dynamics. The workshop foregrounds tourism as a relational practice that emerges through interactions among people, institutions, infrastructures, more-than-human worlds, and the earth itself. Drawing on Marxian, poststructuralist, relational, and political ecology perspectives, the course situates tourism within the structural forces of contemporary capitalism, empire, and globalization, while also opening space to imagine alternative and more just tourism futures.

Interdisciplinary in scope, the workshop integrates insights from geography, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy, economics, and political ecology. Sessions combine foundational theoretical texts with cutting-edge scholarship in critical tourism studies. Throughout, participants connect course concepts directly to their own doctoral projects, developing a nuanced understanding of how tourism development trajectories are produced, stabilized, and contested.

By the end of the workshop, students will be equipped to identify key theoretical frameworks, apply abstract theory to empirical contexts, critically assess how different framings shape research, and develop a robust conceptualization of tourism tailored to their own research setting.

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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