Dr Manon Gosselink receives LSr Teaching prize

Dr Manon Gosselink, lecturer in psychiatry within the Department of Medicine at the LUMC was awarded the annualTeaching Prize by the Leiden Student Council. MFLS, the study association that nominated her, is extremely enthusiastic about her use of digital teaching media.

Real-life experience

Gosselink encourages students to gain real-life experience. Following an extensive lecture on delirium (a psycho-organic disturbance), for example, students experienced in practice how it is to treat a patient suffering from such a disorder. Gosselink also organises extra-curricular activities that her students describe as both useful and fun. 

Symbiosis

Roeland Stolk, chairman of the Leiden Student Council, announced the winner during the celebration of the Dies natalis in the Pieterskerk on Monday 8 February. He described the relationship between students and science as 'symbiotic' when the lecturer is particularly good. 'This what can and should happen during lectures.  The lecturer should let the students really feel the subject matter. You det the idea that you are not only starting to understand the material, but also that you are able to make a contribution, and you realise that there is so much more still be discovered.'

Other nominees

A total of 25 lecturers were nominated. A jury made up of LSr members narrowed the nominations down to five finalists, from whom they selected the winner. The other nominees were:  

• Dr Lindsay Black, lecturer in the Languages and Cultures of Japan, specialising in East Asiatic-related subjects - nominated by the Tanuki study association
• Jasper de Bruin, MA, Archaeology, who lectures on the Roman period - nominated by the Terra study association
• Professor Mathieu Noteborn, lecturer in Molecular cell signaling at the Department of Lie Science and Technology - nominated by the LIFE study association
• Dr Isabel Raemdonck, lecturer in Pedagogical Sciences - nominated by the Emile study association