KEN2022: Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij's provocation speech
Channel: Knowledge Equity Network
Date: 2023-03-28

KEN2022: Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij's provocation speech focusing on Open Education.


Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij
Professor and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University

Leoniek Wijngaards-de Meij is Professor of Data Use for Innovation in Higher Education, and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University. She is also Principal Fellow at the Centre for Academic Teaching, UU and co-chair of the Open Science-track Open Education at Utrecht University.

Leoniek’s scientific interest lies in the field of enrolment, academic achievement and diversity in Higher Education. 

In recent years she has directed her focus to interfaculty projects where research and educational innovation meet. Her work also includes a focus on innovation in education, from redesigning courses and (parts of) curricula, to interfaculty projects.

She has chaired the committee of the International Multilevel Conference 2015 and 2017 and teaches courses on Multilevel analysis at undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate level at University College Utrecht and as an invited teacher at other national and international universities.