Researcher/Postdoc
Biography
Annelies is an educational researcher in life sciences education research. Her specific interest is in critical thinking in science and broadening life sciences students' perspectives with perspectives from the humanities and social sciences. Her work relates to education about philosophy of science, the interface between science and society, ethics, science communication, Open Science, and data science.
She is a postdoc and teacher at the Education Centre of the UMC Utrecht. In her current research and teaching, she aims to understand and inform students' and researchers' conceptions of how reliable scientific knowledge is produced, including how this is shaped by epistemic, moral and social values. Her research, teaching and educational innovation in the biomedical programmes and the PhD-programme Life Sciences Education Research are informed by practice-oriented philosophy of science and Open Science.
In addition, Annelies is project leader of an USO project in the Faculty of Science focused on developing courses in practice-oriented philosophy of science for master's students in the Graduate School of the Life Sciences and the Graduate School of the Natural Sciences. Annelies is a member of the Community for Open Science in Education, which brings together educators with a shared ambition to integrate the core values of Open Science into higher education. Within this team, she conducts educational research on developing transferable pedagogies for an Open Science mindset. In the European Open Qualitative Research Community, Annelies is a member of the steering group and chair of the Education and Training working group.
In her doctoral research, she studied how developments in biomedical sciences impact what knowledge and skills students need to become good researchers. To gain more insight into this aspect, she studied student views of the nature of science (personal epistemology), how student substantiate those views and whether and how those views are enacted in the way students use and report on research data and results.
