Students

Educational Institute Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences

The Educational Institute comprises all activities related to the Bachelor's, Pre-Master's and Master's programs.

The staff of the Educational Institute are responsible for preparing and carrying out the educational policy of the School, which includes developing and innovating educational programs, quality control, internationalization, tutoring and program counseling, and the organization and planning of the educational program.

The Educational Institute also includes the official secretariat of the School's internal internal Educational Consultations, the Curriculum Committee, the Examinations Committee and other forms of educational consultation. In addition, the Institute informs students and lecturers about the organization of educational matters in the School, which includes information about the various educational programs, the (preliminary) examinations regulations, and timetables and schedules for lectures and (preliminary) examinations.

Executive Committee Educational Institute

The person immediately responsible for the Educational Institute is the vice-dean of education. The executive committee consists of the vice-dean of education and the managing director of the Educational Institute.

Vice-dean of Education

 Managing Director Educational Institute

Educational Consulation

The program directors and vice-dean discuss at least six times per year all issues regarding education.

Vice-dean of Education, chair

 Managing Director Educational Institute

Program Director Data Science and Society

Program Director Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

Program Director Communication and Information Sciences

Program Director Philosophy

Program Director Online Culture: Art, Media and Society / Culture Studies

Program Director Liberal Arts and Sciences

Program Director Research Master Language and Communication

Student advisor

Examination Board

Requests

Requests can be submitted via email: tshd.excom@tilburguniversity.edu. See the website Examination Board Humanities and Digital Sciences for the necessary forms. The secretariat of the Examination Board can be found in the Dante building, room D338.

Examination Board

  • Chair
    Dr. Rein Cozijn
  • Vice chair and member Bachelor Liberal Arts and Science
    Dr. Gerwin van der Laan
  • Member Bachelor/master Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence; Master Data Science and Society
    Dr. Bruno Nicenboim
    Dr. Paula Roncaglia
  • Member Bachelor/master Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen
    Dr. Jan Engelen 
  • Member Bachelor/master Philosophy; Lerarenopleiding Filosofie
    Dr. Nathan Wildman
  • Member Bachelor Online Culture: Art, Media and Society; Master Kunst en Cultuurwetenschappen; Lerarenopleiding Nederlands
    Dr. Rian Aarts
  • External member
    Dr. Cor Sluijter

Composition of the Examination Board Research Master

  • Chair
    Dr. Frans Folkvord
  • Member
    Dr. Lennert Coenen
  • External member
    Dr. Cor Sluijter

Administrative secretaries

  • Esmée Rutten, LLM
  • Hélène Spiertz, BA

Contact

tshd.excom@tilburguniversity.edu

Curriculum Committee

Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

E-mail: pc-csai@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Gonzalo Nápoles
  • Noortje Venhuizen (Chair)
  • Polislava Kalcheva (student member BSc)
  • Galina Valcheva (student member BSc) (Vice-Chair)
  • Udesh Habaraduwa Kandambidge (student member MSc)
  • Anita Vrins (student member MSc))

Communication and Information Sciences

E-mail: pc-cis@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Loes Janssen
  • Emiel van Miltenburg
  • Sara Pabian
  • Jan de Wit (Chair)
  • Cune van Asselt (student member BSc) (Vice-Chair)
  • Jennifer Steenkamp (student member BSc)
  • Merel Melssen (student member MSc)
  • Isabel Prinsen (student member MSc)

Culture Studies

E-mail: pc-culturestudies@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Mingyi Hou
  • Elodie Malanda
  • Anna Skorodihina (student member Ba)
  • VACANCY (student member Ba)
  • Chris Andres (student member Ma)
  • Jitske Verhagen (student member Ma) (Vice-Chair)

Data Science and Society

E-mail: pc-dss@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Chris Emmery
  • Ekaterini Ioannou
  • Leonie Vogelsmeier (Chair)
  • Daniel Fidrmuc (student member MSc) (Vice-Chair)
  • Julian Leeffers (student member MSc)
  • Celina Schmid (student member MSc)
  • Javier Torralba Flores (student member MSc)

Liberal Arts and Sciences

E-mail: pc-las@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Ellen Dreezens (Chair)
  • Matthew Rich
  • Jan Hendrik Valgaeren (TLS)
  • Tom Willems
  • Diana Bleza (student member BSc) (Vice-Chair)
  • Vonne Grijpma (student member BSc)
  • David Ševčík (student member Ba)
  • Jens van Vugt (student member Ba)

Philosophy

E-mail: pc-philosophy@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Willem van der Deijl (Chair)
  • Siba Harb
  • Danique van den Berg (student member Ba)
  • Kim Visser (student member Ba)
  • Thomas Melisse (student member Ma) (Vice-Chair)
  • Bastiaan van den Noort (student member Ma) 

Research Master in Linguistics and Communication Sciences

E-mail: pc-rema@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Ad Backus
  • Nadine Bol
  • Marianne Starren (RU) (Chair)
  • Joël Grassère (student member MSc) (Vice-Chair)
  • Jessaline Shania Tanjung (student member MSc)

ULT

E-mail: pc-ult@tilburguniversity.edu

  • Ipek Bayrak
  • Henri van den Hout
  • Marjolein Bertels (student member)
  • Michelle Gimbrère (student member)
  • Makko Henkelman (student member FIL)
  • Joyce van Otterdijjk (student member NED)
  • VACANCY (student member ECO)

The Curriculum Committees advise the Vice Dean of Education, either on request or on their own initiative, on policy, organisational and content-related aspects of the various Bachelor's and Master's programmes offered by the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences. The committees are also involved in quality control of the education.

Program Directors Educational Institute

For the management of the various programs, the vice-dean is assisted by the program directors. Every department has a program director, who is in charge of the proper execution of the Education and Assessment Regulations of the programs that the department in question is responsible for.

Data Science and Society

Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

Communication and Information Sciences

Philosophy

Online Culture: Art, Media and Society / Culture Studies

Liberal Arts and Sciences

Research Master Language and Communication

Core Staff Liberal Arts and Sciences

Dean / Program Director Social Sciences

  • Prof. dr. Alkeline van Lenning

Vice-dean / Academic Director

Senior Policy Advisor / Program Director Business and Economics

Program Director Arts and Humanities

Program Director Cognitive Neuroscience

Program Director Law in an International Context

Academic Advisor

Study Progress Advisor

Coordinator of PASS

Management / Office Assistant

Junior Policy Advisor

Teaching Assistants

Educational Coordinators

Thesis Coordinators - Bachelor's Programs

Bachelor's program Online Culture: Art, Media and Society

Bachelor's program Communication and Information Sciences

Bachelor's program Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor's program Philosophy

Thesis Coordinators - Master's Programs

Master's program Culture Studies

Master's program Communication and Information Sciences

Master's program Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence

Master Data Science and Society

Master's program Philosophy

Coordinators Research Master Language and Communication

Coordinator service education Philosophy

Counselors - Theses and PhD Candidates