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Dilaver

Full Professor

Biography

During her MSc and PhD in Cell Biology Gönül Dilaver developed a strong interest in academic education and became member of the educational committee and board of the student’s association of Biology. She was involved in teaching students from Biomedical Sciences and Medicine. In 2005 she started as University Teacher and Senior Advisor of the Biomedical Sciences degree at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2007 dr. Dilaver became Degree Coordinator of the Master’s Programmes Biomedical Sciences within the interfaculty Graduate School of Life Sciences at UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University. Since 2009 she is chair of the Expertise Group Education Life Sciences in which she actively develops and implements educational innovations for the Graduate School of Life Sciences. In 2016 dr. Dilaver was appointed as Associate Professor in Research and Innovation of Biomedical Education at UMC Utrecht. In 2017, she became the faculty liaison for UMC Utrecht Diversity & Inclusion initiatives and research. In that capacity she set up the Platform Diversity and Inclusion at UMC Utrecht to gain and provide knowledge and expertise on this topic. She became member of the Taskforce Diversity of Utrecht University in 2018 and in 2019 she was appointed as Senior Fellow on Inclusive Education at Utrecht University.

Research groups

Life sciences education research

Research aim

We aim to develop adaptive, creative, responsible future health professionals by investigating learning in education and at workplaces. This leads to evidence-informed education and innovations that foster the health domain.

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Recent publications

To Test or Not to Test? The Graduate Record Examinations Anastasia Kurysheva, Gönül Dilaver, Christine Merie Fox, Harrison Kell, Matthias Robert Kern, Harold V.M. van Rijen
Education Sciences, 2024, vol. 14
Evaluation of a bias awareness training for teachers in bio/medical education Gisela van der Velden, Özge Bilgili, G Dilaver
2023
Connecting Science and Society within Life Sciences Education Gisela van der Velden, HVM van Rijen, G Dilaver
2023
Validity, acceptability, and procedural issues of selection methods for graduate study admissions in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics Anastasia Kurysheva, Harold V.M. van Rijen, Cecily Stolte, Gönül Dilaver
International Journal of STEM Education, 2023, vol. 10
Inclusion and diversity within medical education: a focus group study of students' experiences Anne-Roos Verbree, Ulviye Isik, J. J. H. M. Janssen, G Dilaver
BMC Medical Education, 2023, vol. 23, p.1-11
‘A role model is like a mosaic’: reimagining URiM students’ role models in medical school Isabella Spaans, Renske de Kleijn, Conny Seeleman, G Dilaver
BMC Medical Education, 2023, vol. 23