Junior Researcher
Biography
Isabella Spaans (1987) researches role models in medical education. She is currently a PhD student at the University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands. She has a master’s degree in Communicationstudies and taught at the faculty of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences for a decade.
As a social scientist she is interested in social mobility, organizational communication, and in how society shapes individual behavior.
Key publication: ‘A role model is like a mosaic’: reimagining URiM students’ role models in medical school, available here: https://bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12909-023-04394-y
