Roeland van der Rijst is professor educational science at the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON) and fellow of the Leiden Teachers' Academy.

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Roeland van der Rijst is full Professor of Higher Education at Leiden University and Director of research of the Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching. He holds a PhD in teaching and learning in Higher Education from Leiden University, and an MSc in Physics, an MA in Philosophy, and an MEd in Science Education from Utrecht University. He joined the Graduate School in 2005 after serving as a science teacher at international and bilingual schools in South-Africa and the Netherlands.

Prof. van der Rijst is an expert in the field of research into higher education. His studies explore various aspects of teaching and learning in higher education institutions and how faculty development can contribute to student learning and sustainable change. His research has been used by government agencies, accreditation bodies, foundations, consortia, and individual campuses to forward innovation agendas and initiatives. His studies form the basis to design leadership development schemes. He is regularly consulted by higher education institutes related to his work on research-based teaching and learning, diversity/equity/inclusion in higher education, faculty development initiatives, and teacher agency. He is an international expert on teaching in higher education and faculty development and directs the European project on inclusive student centered pedagogies in higher education.

Prof. van der Rijst is a well-published scholar with many international research articles in peer-reviewed journals, and numerous professional editorials, books, book chapters, and reports. He is a honorary fellow of the Leiden Teachers’ Academy and has received various nominations for the national awards of doctoral supervision. Furthermore he is co-editor of the International Journal for Academic development, Editor-in-Chief of the national educational research journal Pedagogische Studiën, and is a member of the editorial board of Teaching in Higher Education.

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