The new members represent the full breadth of the scientific world: they do research into a variety of different topics. During their five-year membership, they will dedicate themselves to projects about scientific policies, interdisciplinarity, internationalisation and the relationships between science and society and science and art. All new members have scientifically proven themselves and obtained their PhD degree less than ten years ago.
BookTok and online reading challenges
As reading rates decline, what can we learn from young people who do like to read? Dera analyses the reading culture of teenagers and people in their twenties and researches how new phenomena such as BookTok and online reading challenges can be used to reinforce literary education at secondary schools. Within the university, he works to increase the visibility of education research in all fields.
Dera: “I’m exceptionally honoured and privileged to become a part of this group of scientists, especially in these disruptive times for science and society. We will keep going on! And no one who knows me will be surprised that I will also keep doing my best to further highlight the relationship between science and education.”