Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens (1973) is appointed as full professor of ‘Transformative academic education’ at the Erasmus School of Philosophy.
Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens studied economics and philosophy (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. In 2010 she defended her dissertation Contested Communication: A Critical Analysis of Central Bank Speech at the Erasmus School of Economics and the Erasmus School of Philosophy. As programme director at the Erasmus School of Philosophy she is responsible for the Bachelor Philosophy and the Bachelor ‘Philosophy of a Specific Discipline’.
In her education and research, she focuses on the question of how collaboration between higher education and society can be improved, with an emphasis on academic value and the societal meaning of higher education. Her chair is connected to Erasmus University’s strategy ‘Creating a Positive Societal Impact: The Erasmian Way’.
Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens is as founding and academic board member connected to the Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab (RASL). Her educational innovation initiatives are rewarded with the Comenius Leader Fellowship grant and the Erasmusplus Strategic Partnership Grant. Currently, she is co-chair of the national Comenius network. Through the project RASL Liesbeth Noordegraaf-Eelens is also affiliated with Codarts as a lecturer in ‘Transdisciplinary education innovation’. In her teaching she is focusing on the connection between art, science and society. Besides that, she is one day a week councilor of the Council for public health and society.
Liesbeth’s reaction on her appointment:
I am very much looking forward to continuing my work at the faculty where I graduated and obtained my PhD. I noticed that there is a lot of enthusiasm for educational innovation and to strengthen the cooperation with social partners to set up educational programmes and to conduct research about these programmes. In the coming years, I will contribute to this at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab. Moreover, I will contribute to further strengthen the position of the humanities at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.