AYA welcomes and supports the current attention to Recognition & Rewards in Dutch academia and is committed to promoting forms…

Higher education and research are under pressure in the Netherlands. A now rather familiar and normalized frustration in Dutch academe.…

The Amsterdam Young Academy launches a survey on the implementation of the Starting Grants. Assistant professors at the UvA and the VU are invited to share their experiences.

De UvA en VU moeten niet meer meedoen aan de internationale ranglijsten waarin de zogenaamd beste universiteiten op een rijtje worden gezet, stellen leden van de Amsterdam Young Academy in een opiniestuk in Het Parool.

There’s nothing more useful than a listicle to end this interdisciplinarity guide. We have condensed the top 10 tips and tricks from our many interviews.

All academics are embedded within an academic landscape. Unfortunately, most of our interviewees are concerned the current academic landscape prompts most researchers to shy away from interdisciplinary research.

Integrating interdisciplinary aspects into teaching – or even offering a fully interdisciplinary programme – has the potential to bring several benefits to students. It also brings with it a set of challenges.

This article underlines the importance of selecting team members based on their willingness to be vulnerable regarding (the limits of) their knowledge; their genuine interest in other fields can hardly be underestimated.

‘Interdisciplinarity’ has become a ubiquitous academic buzzword. Given this often unquestioned enthusiasm, one should ask a set of basic questions.