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  • How to study and when to take a break

    Were you absolutely cruising through your exams? Were you well prepared with plenty time to spare? Then Anique de Bruin’s work won’t change your life. But for everyone else, the Professor of Self-regulation in Higher Education has useful insights and tools. Together with a refugee scholar financed...

    anique de bruin
  • Inclusive Education

    Since the signing of the declaration of intent of the UN Convention in 2020, Maastricht University works in different ways towards inclusive education. Pamela Habibović, Rector Magnificus, had a conversation with students Carolina, John and Sjoerd, and Disability Officer Sigrid Péters about what...

    A photo of Sigrid from Disability Support, Sjoerd, John and Carolina from UnliMited-Students and Prof. dr. Pamela Habibović, smiling and holding the UN Declaration of intent.
  • Putting things into perspectives

    The trailblazing cohort of the Global Studies bachelor programme has graduated. Gaia Gazzara and Vincent Tadday look back on transdisciplinarity, challenging yourself and integrating new perspectives.

    Global Studies Graduation Gaia Gazzara and VIncent Tadday
  • MUMC+ Prevention research gets a NUTRIM impulse.

    Five NUTRIM researchers honoured with research appointments on Sector Plan Health – theme prevention. Dorus Gevers, Dennis de Ruijter (Health Promotion), Michelle Weijzen (Human Biology), Marcel den Dulk (Surgery) and Brenda Berendsen (Human Movement Sciences) receive a structural U(H)D appointment...

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  • How do involuntarily returned migrants fare in Senegal?

    The PhD research of Karlien Strijbosch focuses on Senegalese migrants who were forced to return home after a stay in Europe. Doing justice to such stories is no easy feat, especially when you come up against walls of silence, distrust and shame. Strijbosch and her supervisor Valentina Mazzucato...

    Strijbosch en Mazzucato
  • Great news for the care of overweight and obese children

    The combined lifestyle intervention from Your Coach Next Door (YCND) will be structurally funded by the Dutch basic health insurance, from January 1, 2024 on. Both the combined lifestyle intervention and the deployment of trained central care providers will be included in the basic health insurance!

    Professor Anita Vreugdenhil
  • Health Sciences focuses on virtual technology

    Students indicate that they remember the material better. Teachers can integrate a sense of real-life into their training, and there is less need for home visits. Virtual technology has a significant impact on the Health Sciences (HS) programme. The initiator of virtual technology within the...

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