Dit boek behandelt ontwerptechnieken voor zorg- en hulpverleners. "Willen we in de nabije toekomst goede zorg en ondersteuning blijven bieden, dan moet een beroep worden gedaan op de creatieve houding van professionals in zorg en welzijn. Design thinking is een werk- en onderzoekswijze die hier goed …

Het eenduidige antwoord op de onderzoeksvraag ‘Hoe bereiden jongsenioren zich voor op hun mogelijke kwetsbaarheid in gezondheid en welzijn op de lange termijn’ is dat jongsenioren zich nauwelijks voorbereiden op hun kwetsbaarheid in de toekomst en het beste benaderd kunnen worden vanuit hun situatie …

The surge of smart city technology, thinking, publications and consultancy offerings is significant. This implies there is something seriously developing. But to what extent is this a new development? In this paper the case will be made that urban design has always had to include new technologies and …

Background: A paradigm shift in health care from illness to wellbeing requires new assessment technologies and intervention strategies. Self-monitoring tools based on the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) might provide a solution. They enable patients to monitor both vulnerability and resilience in daily …

As a teacher in ICT and Media Design at Fontys University of Applied Sciences I know but all too well what many of my students want. They are part of a makers community. Most of them just want to build cool stuff with whatever (new) technology may be relevant. My students are by grosso modo millennials …

Closer Look: Poster exhibition on climate adaptation studies1. Institutional design for the transition to flood resilience in developing countries, Naim Laeni, Doctoral student, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen2. Living with floods: The rise of civil society in local flood resilience …

Dit rapport doet verslag van onderzoek naar het aanpassingsvermogen van MKB bedrijven. De vraagstelling van het project Business Booster is vierledig: 1. In hoeverre hebben MKB bedrijven de blik op de toekomst gericht? 2. In hoeverre kunnen studenten een impuls geven aan vernieuwing bij MKB bedrijven? 3. …

This paper includes the research conducted towards the SME businesses’ ability to adjust with the help of students. The research question of the Business Booster project is four-fold: 1. To what extent do SME businesses focus on the future? 2. To what extent can students boost (strategic) renewal at …

This study provides an illustration of a research design complementary to randomized controlled trial to evaluate program effects, namely, participatory peer research (PPR). The PPR described in current study was carried out in a small sample (N = 10) of young adults with mild intellectual disabilities …

Teachers play a crucial role in attaining a major objective of higher education: fostering students’ critical thinking (CT). Yet, little is known about how to foster teachers’ own CT-skills and attitudes towards teaching CT. In a quasi-experimental study (N = 54), we investigated whether a three-session …