Julie Solbreux, LouRIM, danced her PhD

Louvain-La-Neuve, Mons

Julie Solbreux is a PhD candidate at the University of Namur and associated researcher at Louvain Research Institute in Management and Organizations (LouRIM), UCLouvain, in the field of entrepreneurship education. She works with Prof. Julie Hermans from LouRIM on the design of the course of Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (SSE) at the Louvain School of Managament. "Dance your PhD" is an opportunity to make their teaching methodology known to a larger public. Their goal is to show how they invite students to reveal and integrate their own aspirations, values and intentions to be part of a collective committed to social and environmental justice. The choreography tells the story of how, in the SSE course, students create unity in diversity using a conscious and continuous process of narrative conversations. One of the goals of this pedagogical innovation is to show students that, together, they are able to influence the system and address societal injustice. Participating in the "Dance your PhD" contest is an opportunity to take the student voice a step further.

The "Dance your PhD" contest is sponsored by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Science magazine. It challenges scientists to explain their research without PowerPoint slides or jargon. The goal of this "Dance your PhD Uclouvain" workshop was to prepare UCL PhD student to take part in this contest. It provided PhD students the opportunity to reflect upon their research through an artistic lens. The workshop was taught by Prof. Rose Gomez Zuñiga & Gea Zazil Hernandez Castro and coordinated by Prof. Nicolas Kervyn.

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Publié le 02 avril 2021