Introduction to symposium on everyday culture participation/music at Onderzoeksconferentie Cultuureducatie en Cultuurparticipatie, LKCA, Utrecht, 23/11/2015.

April 2015 Sudanese photographer Elsadig Mohamed and I tried to relate the photographs that Paul Julien made when traveling through the country in 1933 and 1948 to stories and realities alive in present day Sudan. This initial research was pretty successful and we thought a first presentation of the …

Politieke kunstenaars zoeken de spanning tussen de wereld van de kunst en die daarbuiten. Ze willen met hun werk echt effect sorteren en ontwikkelen daarvoor verschillende strategieën. Hoe werken die?

Higher professional education in Europe has changed from teaching-only institutes to hybrids of teaching and research. The purpose of this study was to examine factors that influence the judgements of lecturers about new organisational goals and perceptions of their new research-related competencies. …

Invited lecture for Symposium CityProms, Leeuwarden, 26/6/2015

In the production of fermented foods, microbes play an important role. Optimization of fermentation processes or starter culture production traditionally was a trial-and-error approach inspired by expert knowledge of the fermentation process. Current developments in high-throughput 'omics' technologies …

This article focuses on the role of the artistic process in connecting to the natural environment. In my research I have explored what participants experience and learn when they engage in different types of arts-based environmental education (AEE) practices that I have facilitated. The premise of AEE …

Guest blog (Dutch) on music education at Cultureel-Kapitaal-website of LKCA.

In this paper, we address the problem of people detection and tracking in crowded scenes using range cameras. We propose a new method for people detection and localisation based on the combination of background modelling and template matching. The method uses an adaptive background model in the range …

Background: The importance of medical education research in Saudi Arabia has been acknowledged increasingly and a lot of concepts used have been derived from the Western world. The question arises, however, whether Western concepts and questionnaires are transferable to societies with different cultures. …