Mariska Min

Mariska Min, PhD is Director of the Central Teaching & Learning Centre (TLC Centraal) at the University of Amsterdam and chair of the university wide TLC network. The TLCs form an expertise network that promotes an inspiring, learning and future oriented teaching culture at the UvA. Together, the central and faculty-based TLCs realise this mission by focusing on four pillars: teacher development, knowledge sharing, educational innovation and research – always in co-creation with teachers. Her work builds directly on the UvA’s vision on teaching and learning, which emphasises research intensive, inclusive and societally relevant education. Mariska’s aim is to organise support in such a way that lecturers can translate this vision into everyday practice: designing education that is academically rigorous, actively engaging, accessible to diverse students and clearly connected to contemporary societal challenges. As an educationalist, she combines expertise in good teaching with educat