Background: Children with asthma can decrease the impact of their disease by improving their physical activity (PA). However, health care providers lack interventions for children with asthma that effectively increase their PA levels and achieve behavior change. A technology-supported approach can positively …

Talking about money can be difficult; designing with it, harder still. Though design is increasingly ‘value-centred’, this theme-track proposes the need for critical attention to how we actually represent, transact and exchange what we value. In this editorial, we offer some background to the topic, …

When preparing students for the industry’s global context, publishing degrees aim to provide them with experience of cooperating and doing business with colleagues internationally. In order to achieve this, Oxford Brookes University and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences have designed a module …

Op het onlangs gehouden congres ‘Welkom in de Nieuwe Binnenstad’ van Platform De Nieuwe Winkelstraat gaf de Leidse cultuurmakelaar en dirigent Guido Marchena aan dat de cultuursector een belangrijke bijdrage kan leveren aan binnenstedelijke ontwikkeling. Ook Olaf Zwijnenburg, sectormanager Retail en …

De publieke sector is in digitale transformatie en biedt haar diensten in toenemende mate digitaal. Tegelijkertijd hebben publieke dienstverleners te maken met de uitdaging om de dienstverlening 'persoonlijk' bij individuele burgers aan te laten sluiten. Hogeschool Utrecht deed de afgelopen twee jaar …

Educators in professional higher education experience difficulties addressing students’ self-awareness in their courses. The topic is often dismissed by students as ‘vague’ or ‘irrelevant’. This is detrimental for learning since knowing who you are and who you want to be is crucial: it guides behaviour …

Sustainable project management is one of the most important global project management trends today. And despite of several studies addressing the relationship between sustainable project management and success, this relationship is still inadequately addressed. Following the suggestion that project success …

Tot 1960 was de lokale journalistiek het belangrijkste venster op het regionale én wereldnieuws. Dat vertellen onderzoeker Chris van der Heijden, onderzoeker bij Journalismlab en Jan Maarten Pekelharing, journalist en auteur van een boek over lokale journalistiek in de podcast van Journalism Lab. Dat …