TeachMeet: Well-being in turbulent times

Exchange, inspiration & meeting

 

A TeachMeet is an informal mini-conference where UvA teachers meet and exchange good practices to inspire each other. It is a popular concept used worldwide for and by teachers with the aim to learn from and with each other. During each TeachMeet, a specific theme is highlighted and four to five short presentations are given, followed by drinks together. Exchange, inspiration and encounters are the key ingredients.

 

What were the previous TeachMeets about?

TeachMeet 22 January 2026: 'Well-being in turbulent times'

Fellow teachers shared their experience and good practices with the wellbeing of students and teachers in higher education. Couldn’t attend and want to know more about the presentations? Feel free to contact the teachers who shared their experiences.

  Subject     Teacher
  Meeting the Crisis Inside Out: Embodied pedagogy for existential resilience and imagination in  unsettling times   Jelger Kroese | Faculty of Science

(j.kroese@uva.nl)

  A Neurodiversity Perspective on Academic Wellbeing   Ileana Grama | Faculty of Humanities

(i.c.grama@uva.nl)

TeachMeet 30 May 2024: 'Community Engaged Learning'

Fellow teachers shared their experience and good practices with Community Engaged Learning (CEL) in higher education. Couldn’t attend and want to know more about the presentations? Feel free to contact the teachers who shared their experiences.

  Subject     Teacher 
  Community Archaeology in Rural Environments on the Island of Terschelling   Heleen van Londen | Faculty of Humanities

(h.vanlonden@uva.nl)

  Amsterdam Living Case Lab: where theory meets practic     Marina Khoroujenko | Economics and Business

(m.b.khoroujenko@uva.nl)

  Holy Shit: Using Community-Engaged Learning to Close the Food Cycl   Claire Paulissen | Faculty of Science

(c.m.p.paulissen@uva.nl)

  Placemaking   Rosanne van Wieringen | Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences

(r.vanwieringen@uva.nl)

TeachMeet 23 March 2024: 'Storytelling'

Fellow teachers shared their experience and good practices with Storytelling in higher education. Couldn’t attend and want to know more about the presentations? Feel free to contact the teachers who shared their experiences.

 Subject     Teacher
  Story Telling: On Being Imperfect Gabor Linthorst | Faculty of Medicine

(g.e.linthorst@amsterdamumc.nl)

  Including stories to histories   Jouke Turpijn | Faculty of Humanities

(j.j.b.turpijn@uva.nl)

  Building imaginative ‘muscle’ through sensory storytelling: a designathon workshop for Higher Education   Ydwine Zanstra | Amsterdam University College (AUC)

(Y.J.Zanstra@auc.nl)

 

On Videographic Criticism: Audiovisual Essays in Teaching and Research

  Jaap Kooijman | Faculty of Humanities

(J.W.Kooijman@uva.nl)

 

TeachMeet 31 January 2024: ‘Gamification’

Fellow teachers shared their experience and good practices with Gamification in higher education. Couldn’t attend and want to know more about the presentations? Feel free to contact the teachers who shared their experiences.

 Subject     Teacher
  How to escape a boring lecture: an educative escape game   Pieter Walstock | Amsterdam UMC 

(p.a.walstock@amsterdamumc.nl)

  Building Theory: Utilizing LEGO Serious Play for In-Depth Discussions

  on Theoretical Concepts with Students

  Agnes Akkerman | Law Faculty 

(a.akkerman@uva.nl)

  Escaping the communication gap   Adriana Zoutman | Amsterdam UMC 

(a.zoutman@amsterdamumc.nl)

 

Game of Traits: a cardgame to explain trait-based ecology

  Dedmer van de Waal | Science Faculty 

(d.vandewaal@uva.nl)

  The Call’: Engaging Students Through Interactive Video Experiences   Jeroen Lemmens | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science 

(J.S.Lemmens@uva.nl)

 

  Game theory experienced: speedy online games for large classrooms   Aljaz Ule | Faculty of Economics and Business 

(a.ule@uva.nl)

 

TeachMeet 23 oktober 2023: ‘Operation AIpplication’

Fellow teachers shared their experience and good practices with genAI in higher education. Couldn’t attend and want to know more about the presentations? Feel free to contact the teachers who shared their experiences.

 Subject     Teacher
  GenAI for class preparation   Martin Duchac | PPLE​

(m.duchac@uva.nl)

  Energy savers   Ivana Bušljeta Banks | FMG

(i.busljetabanks@uva.nl)

  GenAI for brainstorming and as virtual stakeholders   Morten Strømme | Science

(M.H.Stromme@uva.nl)

 

Teaching and Assessing Academic Writing in Times of GenAI

  Joost Krijnen | AUC  ​

(f.j.krijnen@auc.nl)

Participant TeachMeet 23 October:

‘I learnt more about genAI in this meeting than in the past six months.’