The Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) gives lecturers from Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) the opportunity to apply for a fellowship. With this fellowship, they research educational innovation, or carry out an educational project.
On this page you can read more about the CLI Fellowship of Jana Vietze (ESSB) about supporting students in navigating their social, professional and academic identities.
In line with university goals to invest in students’ personal and professional development, it is crucial to strengthen students' connection with their study environment and with their future work field from the onset of their studies.
The Identity Podcast Intervention aims to increase students’ identification with their study programme and future profession through a combination of reflection moments and a podcast recording exercise. Based on the structure of the (Re)Searching Diversity Podcast (CLI innovation project), students will be asked to record an interview with an inspiring and successful professional in the field, who has to resemble individual students in important social identity dimensions (e.g., gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background).
This fellowship project will explore if this brief identity intervention and meaningful contact moment with a professional can lead to changes in study-related commitment, motivation, identity exploration and well-being. Importantly, by providing opportunities for students to feel more represented and integrated in teaching practice, we hope to contribute to more inclusive learning opportunities for our diverse student population at EUR.
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Besides recording podcast episodes and testing their effectiveness in education, the aim was to provide examples, materials and instructions for recording teacher- and student-generated podcasts in higher education (both inside and outside EUR). All educational materials related to podcasting in education are available through the OSF! It has been chosen to do so through Open Education Resources (OER) and under a CC-By Attribution 4.0 International licence.
Jana's research on the ReSearching Identity Podcast Project was published in 2024. See:
Vietze, J., Meeuwisse, M., de Haan, A., Wolff, R., & de Koning, B. (2024). The ReSearching Identity Podcast Project: Developing a Brief and Inclusive Professional Identity Intervention for Higher Education. Identity, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2389433
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Jana Vietze is an Assitant Professor in Clinical Child and Family Studies of the Department for Psychology, Education, and Child Studies (DPECS). She obtained her Ph.D. in Psychology (University of Potsdam, Germany, 2019) by investigating parents, peers, and school as resources for minority youths' cultural belonging, well-being, and school adjustment. Her research concerns the inclusion, belonging, well-being, and academic trajectories of cultural minority and first-generation students in secondary and higher education. Using mixed-methods, she combines perspectives from developmental psychology, inclusive education, and cross-cultural psychology.
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