U-RISE
UHasselt Research on Innovative and Society-engaged Education
Research in the School of Educational Studies.
What's in a name?
U-RISE stands for UHasselt Research on Innovative and Society-engaged Education. Our research is aimed at helping youngsters and teachers to rise, to grow, to learn… U-RISE is embedded within the School of Educational Studies.
- Society-engaged: inclusive, sustainable, close to the field, co-creation, holistic
- Innovative: interdisciplinary, moving with technology, activation, design-based
Different expertises
- Pedagogical and didactic research
- Subject-specific teaching methodology: U-RISE consists of a diverse team of researcher members of different faculties.
- Business education
- Health education
- Science and technology education
- Design sciences in education
- learning environments: a holistic interpretation of learning environment, researching spatial affordances for movement, engagement, emotion regulation, wellbeing at school, etc. (Spatial and pedagogical, educational perspectives.)
- design didactics, methodologies (e.g. Living Labs, Reference use, STEAM, …)
- secondary versus higher education in design
- Policy-supporting education research
More than research
We also work together with engaged partners in projects, where research is not our first priority, such as
- TalentenAcademie Limburg (TALim)
- Voorsprongfonds
- ...
U-RISE in figures
20
Researchers
41
Projects
5
PhD students
125
Ongoing theses