This study addresses the role of a Dutch chief information security officer (CISO) and the soft skills required in this leadership role. The overview of soft skills is the outcome of the CISO perspectives in a Delphi study combined with an analysis of soft skills mentioned in job ads. A comparison with an …

The central aim of this thesis was to increase understanding of designing vocational learning environments at the school–work boundary. Four studies were conducted, focusing on learning environment designs at the school–work boundary and on design considerations of the actors involved in their construction, …

Smallholders are a substantial part of the oil palm sector and thus key to achieve more sustainable production. However, so far their yields remain below potential. The Roundtable on Sustainable Oil Palm (RSPO) aims to include smallholders in sustainability certification to strengthen rural livelihoods …

Calls for transformative change and participatory modes of knowledge production demand researchers to assume new roles. This paper synthesizes the literature on knowledge co-production and researcher roles to explore challenges for researchers involved in transdisciplinary environmental management projects. …

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Having learners (K7–10) acquire system thinking skills is challenging. Together with teachers we deploy qualitative representations of complex systems to enable this learning process. Teachers select their own topics for their leaners to work on which makes that lessons vary in content depending on the …

The aim of this study is to unpack the value of ethnographic research as a relevant methodology for studying and developing new business models. A pop-up store we ran for three months in 2020 served as a testlab to experiment with value creation around buying, swapping and borrowing secondhand …

Om te kunnen leren van participatieprocessen in de praktijk en op basis daarvan een bijdrage te kunnen leveren aan het verbeteren ervan richt dit onderzoek zich op de gesprekken tussen burgers en ambtenaren en de doorwerking hiervan op participatieprocessen. Centraal staat hoe in gesprekken wordt omgegaan …

Goed beheer is belangrijk om kruidenrijk grasland succesvol te laten zijn voor weidevogelbeheer. Maar het gewas is vaak te dicht voor de weidevogelkuikens om zich goed te kunnen verplaatsen. Daarom is verschraling nodig, blijkt uit het project 'Koeien en Kruiden' van o.a. hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein …

Makercosmos is a four-year maker education programme in Arnhem, the Netherlands, which comprises the development of series of maker education lessons and participatory action research about learning in maker education, among other activities. This study reports findings from the first pilot of this series, …