The Netherlands Recognition and Rewards program is run by a coalition of universities and funding agencies, each of which have chosen to give this programme a different flavor.

At Leiden university the recognition and rewards and open science programmes are two parts of the Academia in Motion initiative. According to the initiative website they want to “support the culture change towards Leiden University as an open knowledge community”.

In this episode I talk to Marieke Adriaanse, who is a member of the steering board of the Academia in Motion programme. She is also a professor of behavioral interventions in population health management, and hence knows a lot about behaviour change and its complexities. Before moving to Leiden, she was also co-chair of the recognition and rewards programme at Utrecht University. I approached Marieke because of her experience with both programmes during the past six years. We especially talk about the role of senior academics in this transition towards a robust and serving academic culture.

You can watch Marieke’s professorial inaugural lecture (Oratie, in Dutch). We also talk about the new PhD thesis framework, that is recently rolled out at the Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC).

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