Ben je docent, onderzoeker, student of op een andere manier geïnteresseerd in onze samenwerking? Elke maand organiseert een van onze programma’s een bijeenkomst over onderzoek en onderwijs van de EWUU alliantie. Je kunt moeiteloos deelnemen via Teams, pak je lunch, en dompel je onder in deze lunchlezing van 45 minuten.

Deze Lunchlezing Buzzwords and Blind Spots: Lessons Learned About Language from Citizen Participation Panels wordt georganiseerd door het EWUU institute 4 Preventive Health

Lunch & Learn Buzzwords and Blind Spots: Lessons Learned About Language from Citizen Participation Panels 

Margret Franssen (EWUU institute 4 Preventive Health / Utrecht University) will share insights from ongoing work with citizen participation panels in Utrecht, Wageningen and Eindhoven. These panels bring together people with lived experience of worries and stress around money, work, housing and health, topics that research often focuses on, but who are not always included in shaping that research. 

Margret will be joined by a panel member and together they will briefly introduce how the panels are organized and what we learn from working together over time. The focus will then shift to language: how research language can be hard to follow, feel distant or simply not fit people’s everyday lives, and how small changes in wording can make it easier to understand and relate to. Using a short “buzzword bingo” exercise, the session will make visible how common research terms are experienced in practice, and how they can either resonate or alienate. 

The session will include concrete examples from practice and invite reflection on how researchers can communicate in ways that better connect to people’s everyday realities.