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Research Focus: boundary crossing of science, education and professional practice

Manon Kluijtmans is professor at the University Medical Center Utrecht, where she holds the chair 'Education to Connect Science and Professional Practice'. As part of her chair she holds several positions at Utrecht University: a.o. Vice-rector Teaching and Learning, chair of the focus area Higher Education Research, and Principal Fellow (and previous director and founder) of the Centre for Academic Teaching and Learning

Her research focuses on two main topics:

1. Education of dual role professionals, in particular clinician-scientists and clinician-teacher, ideally equipped to make the much desired but often lacking connection between scientific research and teaching with care practice.
2. Professional development of university teachers, in order to make a connection between scientific theory and professional practice. 

Manon has a specific interest in the theoretical perspectives of professional identity development and boundary crossing. A central question in her research is how to educate dual professionals to be brokers between different fields. She is a teacher in the MSc programme  as well as in various advanced teacher-development programmes. Among other, she is involved in the 乐鱼后台-broad Educational Leadership Programme, the 乐鱼后台/UMCU , and the international .

Manon takes on a leading role in projects that aim to improve the quality of education and teacher development at Utrecht University. She founded the Centre for Academic teaching, and is current involved in the development of the challenge based European University Master’s programme CHARM-EU. As vice-rector for Teaching and Learning, she represents Utrecht University in national and international networks such . She is external member of the Quality Control Board Education - KU Leuven, and member External Review Panel - University Promotion Educator Track, National University of Singapore (NUS). In 2017, she was awarded the prestigious by the Sigma Theta Tau International Honour Society of Nursing.

Areas of interest:

• Educational innovation and reform
• Education research and Evidence-informed Teaching
• Interdisciplinary, Challenge-based, and Community engaged Education
• National and International Networks on Teaching & Learning
• Recognition and Reward of Academic Teaching
• Open Science & Education

Centre for Academic Teaching

In order to bundle the programmes for teachers and the available knowledge about education, Utrecht University has created the Centre for Academic Teaching. Teachers can come here for the full range of services they need to develop and improve their teaching. This video offers a short impression of the centre and its objective: