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Wageningen University Teacher of the Year Nominee #1: Jessica Duncan

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The first contender for the annual award of the University Fund Wageningen (UFW) is, according to the jury, a lecturer who is to be praised for her enthusiasm and audacity. Someone who is not afraid to tackle her lectures in a different way and is always open to feedback on her methods.

At the Rural Sociology Group we are very proud that Jessica Duncan is one of the six nominees for the Teacher of the Year award. The official ceremony in which the Teacher of the Year Award 2017 will be handed out is on April 6, 2017.

Vacancy for a Lecturer and Education Coordinator Sociology and Anthropology of Development

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The section Sociology and Anthropology of Development (SADE) – composed of the Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) and Rural Sociology (RSO) Groups – is looking for a highly motivated person to teach (and coordinate) courses, to supervise BSc and MSc and internships and to plan and coordinate educational activities within SADE, with a view to promote high-quality educational processes. In terms of time allocation it will be a 50/50 division between lecturer and education coordinator.

As lecturer you will co-develop and teach courses in the Bachelor and Master programme in International Development Studies. These courses focus on the sociology of agrarian and rural development, food sociology and sociology of development . The lecturer will give lectures to smaller as well as bigger audiences, lead discussion lectures, and tutor group work. The lecturer should be able to teach in both English and Dutch. Furthermore the lecturer will supervise BSc and MSc thesis students and internship students, which may also include students from other programmes than International Development Studies.

The role of coordinator is a diverse one, in between operational and strategic levels. The preferred candidate will be able to quickly switch between working with the secretariat on executing a range of practical tasks and with the education managers and chairs of SADE as well as broader Wageningen University bodies such as the Educational Institute (OWI) and the programme committees to provide input on strategic and policy levels. A sense of the importance of the smooth functioning of educational processes is expected as well as the ability to set up communication activities (information, public relations, marketing) around educational and other SADE activities. More specifically, the role of education coordinator includes the following main tasks: Continue reading →

RSO en SDC organiseren een kennismakingsborrel voor aanstaande BSc Thesis studenten (BIN)

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Dinsdag 24 Maart a.s. organiseren de leerstoelgroepen Rural Sociology en Sociology of Development and Change een kenningsmakingsborrel voor studenten van de Bachelor ‘Internationale Ontwikkelingsstudies’ die de intentie hebben dit jaar met hun BSc Thesis te starten.

Deze informele borrel is bedoeld om je kennis te laten maken met onze staff leden en hun expertise, en je hier ook een mogelijkheid te bieden om die personen te ontmoeten die je in je BSc Programma (tot op heden) nog niet bent tegen gekomen. Daarnaast biedt deze borrel de mogelijkheid om een eerste brainstorm op gang te brengen over de mogelijke focus van je onderzoek, om je (uiteindelijk) te helpen met het vinden van een begeleider voor je BSc Thesis.

Daarom zijn jullie van harte uitgenodigd op dinsdag 24 Maart 2015 vanaf 17.00 in onze Lounge (te vinden op de derde verdieping van de Leeuwenborch).

Voor vragen neem contact op met Miriam Vreman (Miriam.Vreman@wur.nl), Onderwijs Coördinator Rural Sociology en Sociology of Development and Change.

 

 

Theoretical approaches to the ecologisation of agrifood systems – European Society of Rural Sociology 2014 Summerschool

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Transitions towards more sustainable agrifood systems and rural landscapes are at the core of societal demands, technological but also social innovations and renewed public policies at various scales. In rural sociology they are addressed through different theoretical frameworks and the main objective of the ESRS PhD Summer School this year, is to discuss these competing and sometimes articulated frameworks and thereby to help the PhD students to clarify their own theoretical choices and to position them in relation to other theoretical frameworks that are used in rural sociology. For students who are rather at the beginning of their PhD, the aim will be to help them organize their state of the art and clarify their problematisation, while for students who are more advanced, it would rather be a discussion of their results in the light of existing literature and/or possibly the preparation of a future article. All the participants should have an interest in the theoretical frameworks that will be structuring the discussion, i.e. mainly Socio-Ecological Systems/Resilience theories, Food Regime Theory, Transition Theories, Actor Network Theory, and Social Studies of Science and Knowledge. Continue reading →

Interested in Food and Place?

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Are you interested in the sociological aspects of food provisioning and place-based development and want to know more about topics like place-based food systems, food citizenship, civic food networks, sustainable place-shaping, diverse economies, place branding and social movements? Then it may be a relevant for you to attend the MSc course ‘Sociology of Food Provisioning and Place-based Development’ that starts on Monday 17 March 2014. Lectures and workshops are held on Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings for a period of 6 weeks. Included in the program is also a gastronomic excursion to rural estate Rhederoord, to experience the practice of place-making and enjoy the taste of place-based food products. Although registration for the course has formally closed you can still register for the course by sending an email to the course coordinator  (han.wiskerke@wur.nl). For more information about the content of the course, the program and the literature, have a look at the Course Guide.