Teaching
Coordinator
2021 - now | Thesis coordinator in the Master Health Humanities (Tilburg University)
Coordinating teacher
Spring 2024 | ‘Anthropology and Philosophy of the Body’, 6 ECTS, BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Tilburg.
Autumn 2022 - now | ‘Diversity and equity in health and medicine’, 6 ECTS, MA Health Humanities, University of Tilburg
Spring 2022 | ‘Health Humanities, 6 ECTS, BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Tilburg
Spring 2021 | ‘Medical Humanities & Narrative Medicine’, 6 ECTS, BA Liberal Arts and Sciences, University College Tilburg (also developed the curriculum for this course)
Fall 2019 | ‘The Normal and the Abnormal’, 6 ECTS, MA Health Humanities, Tilburg University (also developed the curriculum for this course)
2012 - 2014 | ‘E-journal. Publish or Perish’, 6 ECTS, BSc Health Sciences, Maastricht University (also co-developed the curriculum for this course)
2012 – 2014 | ‘Academic Reflection and Vision’, 6 ECTS, BSc Health Sciences, Maastricht University
Teacher
Fall 2022 | ‘Lab rotation’- supervisor of Sari Pastoor, research project on women’s experiences of vaginismus, research master Communication and Cognition, Tilburg University, Tilburg
Oct. 2018 | One-day course ‘Introduction to phenomenology’, MSc Health Sciences, University of Oslo
Oct. 2017 | One-day course ‘Introduction to phenomenology’, MSc Health Sciences, University of Oslo
2012 - 2015 | Semester class ‘Book project’, BSc Health Sciences, Maastricht University
2011- 2014 | One day course ‘Hot topics’, BSc Health Sciences, Maastricht University
2011 | Semester class ‘Philosophy & Theory’, BSc Health Sciences, Maastricht University
2010 | Two week NOISE Summerschool for MA students in Gender Studies ‘Performing Feminist Futures: 1969 & 1989’ (Granada, Spain), University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Guest lectures
May 2024 (planned) | Interview techniques in empirical philosophical studies. Lecture in the PhD course empirical philosophy, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands.
Nov 2023 | Guest lecture about epistemic injustice, Master track Management of Cultural Diversity, Tilburg University
Nov.-Dec 2023 | ‘Conversations’ in the PhD course Engaging with Normativity: Normative Embodiment and Normativity in Medical/Technological Knowledge Practices and Policy-Work, Linkoping University
Sept. 2023 | Guest lecture about gender fluidity in children’s picture books, Master track Children Literature, Tilburg University
May 2023 | Interview techniques in empirical philosophical studies. Lecture in the PhD course empirical philosophy, Technical University Delft, The Netherlands.
Dec. 2021| Lecture ‘Epistemic in/justice in ME/CFS’ in the MA Medical Humanities course The Normal and the Abnormal, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Nov 2021 | Lecture ‘Normative embodiment. A feminist phenomenological perspective’ in the PhD course Engaging with Normativity: Normative Embodiment and Normativity in Medical/Technological Knowledge Practices and Policy-Work, Linkoping University
April 2020 | Interviewed in the course ‘Methodology’, BA Culture Studies, Tilburg University
Feb. 2020 | Interviewed in the course ‘Qualitative research’, BA Social Sciences and Humanities, Tilburg University
April 2019 | Interviewed in the course ‘Feminist Studies’, BA Culture Studies, Tilburg University
March 2018 | Guest lecture ‘Women’s bodily experiences in breast cancer’, MSc Health Sciences, University of Oslo
Personal Supervision
Co-supervisor PhD project
August 2023 - now | Ingeborg van den Bold - Tilburg University - PhD project ‘Mindfulness and the body in the experience of being ill’.
Sept. 2019 - now | Hans-Georg Eilenberger – Tilburg University – PhD project ‘Age and Existence: An Empirical-Philosophical Investigation of Late Life’
May 2021 - August 2022 | José Krijnen - Tilburg University - PhD-project on waiting in health care
March 2020 - September 2020 (pregnancy leave replacement)| Sanne van Driel – Tilburg University – PhD-project on embodiment in therapies for depression
Member PhD committee
Nov. 2023 | Tom Bootsma - Tilburg University - ‘Using the patient perspective to personalize psycho-oncological care for chronic cancer-related fatigue’.
Member PhD Mid-term evaluation committee
Dec. 2021| Alexandra Kappeler - Linkoping University - main opponent in the 60% seminar - PhD project on a digital app for testing cognitive impairment.
2016 | Line Blixt - University of Oslo – opponent in the 60% seminar - PhD project ‘An electronic clinical tool in physiotherapy; a study to the implementation of novel technologies in practicing physiotherapy’
Supervision of research trainees (research MA level)
Sept. 2022 - Jan 2023 | Sari Pastoor - Tilburg University - ‘Experiences of vaginismus and dyspareunia’
Jan. 2021 - Aug. 2021 | Marcella de Wolf - Tilburg University - ‘Empowering/estranged embodiment in self-tracking through Strava’
Sept. 2019 - July 2020| Marieke Hendriks – Tilburg University – ‘Monitoring Menopause’
Sept. 2019 - July 2020 | Teddy Eliëns – Tilburg University – ‘Monitoring Menopause’
March - July 2019 | Ties van Gemert – Tilburg University – ‘What does it mean to make choices about breast cancer surgery?’
Supervisor Master thesis
2024 | Vanessa van der Vlugt - Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities - care needs in trans care
2024 | Silke van Esch - Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities - body image in cancer treatment
2023 | Tammy Verstraeten - Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities - Orgasm gap
2023 | Prescilia Kiangala - Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities - Representations of Huntington disease and genetic testing decisions.
2023 | Sari Pastoor - Tilburg University, Research Master Linguistics and Communication Sciences - Experiences of being treated for vaginismus
2023 | Annik Hellings – Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities – Experiences of loss and grief while recovering from a stroke
2022 | Robin Hendriks - Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities - Bodily experiences of young people with cancer
2021 | Eirini Kreza – Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities – Healthy aging in the blue zones
2020| Marieke Hendriks – Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities – ‘Fighting the Obesity “Epidemic” in a Body Conscious Society. A discourse analysis on the efforts from the Dutch government to achieve a population with a healthy weight through fighting obesity’.
2014 | Tesse Leunissen - University Maastricht, Master Medicine – ‘Bodily experience in implant and own tissue reconstructions’ (see: publications)
2014 | Manon Oomen - University Maastricht, Master Medicine – ‘Partner’s experiences of the process of breast reconstruction’
Second supervisor Bachelor/Master thesis
2024 | Dina Bousbaa, Sofia Camargo Collet, Océane Senn - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - TBA
2023 | Wadjiha Habibi - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - Epistemic injustice from a physician's perspective.
2023 | Malou van de Noort - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - The Meanings of Everyday Routine: Perspectives of Informal Caregivers for People with Dementia on Identity and Relationships.
2023 | Jesse van Heerwaarden - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - Looking for Down syndrome? A Devil’s Bargain’: An Analysis of the Ethical Implications of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing for Down Syndrome.
2023 | Sjariefa Ngoesmin - Tilburg University, Master Health Humanities - Menstruation activism online
2022 | Iris van der Hooft - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - Covid-19 and Code black
2022 | Sanne Klopmeijer - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - hypersexuality in The Voice
2022 |Femke Claessen - Master Jeugdliteratuur, Tilburg University - ‘Disability in Nederlandse jeugdliteratuur’
2022 | Laura Pasterkamp - Master Jeugdliteratuur, Tilburg University - ‘Representatie van mentale gezondheid in Young Adult fantasieverhalen’
2021 | Mathilde Wesdorp - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - ‘Methadone and Empowerment Client empowerment in methadone maintenance treatments in the Netherlands’
2021 | Bernadette Arman - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - ‘Being Friends with Diabetes Mellitus: Understanding the Illness Experiences of Javanese Women with Diabetes Mellitus through Illness Narratives’
2021 | Tessa Visser - Master Health Humanities, Tilburg University - ‘Gender-based medicine and the differences and similarities between transgender and cisgender people’
2020 | Athanasia Kotzasavva – University College Tilburg, Bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences – ‘Orthorexia Nervosa: lifestyle phenomenon or mental health disorder?’
2020 | Laura Thomas – Tilburg University, Bachelor Cultuurwetenschappen – ‘Mediale en sociale invloed op de identiteitsvorming van polyamoreuze kinksters. Een transgressieve seksuele identiteit passend binnen het queer paradigma.’