Student Representation
Educational Committee
The master Brain and Cognitive Sciences has an Educational Committee. The committee advises the dean of the faculty and the director of the programme on all proposed changes to the structure and/or organisation of the programme. They also guards the quality of the programme and can offer advice, whether on request or on it's own initiative on all matters concerning the quality of the teaching and/or the organisation of the programme. The committee consists of staff and student members. Members are appointed by the dean of the faculty for a period of two years at most.
Staff Members: dr. Jelle Zuidema, dr. Francesco Battaglia, dr. Mariette Huizinga, dr. Hedde Zeijlstra
Student Members: Hannah Widmann, Ruben Post, Leanne Schmitz and Josefine Karlsson
COGnITO Student Union
The COGnITO association is an active student association that was founded by Brain and Cognitive Sciences students in 2006. Their aim is to unite students across fields and academic years in order to promote exchange of knowledge, interdisciplinary discussion and networking about cognition matters. They organize parties and group activities, find conferences to attend, and communicate with other universities to keep up to date with current research being conducted by peers, read more...
Interested in joining?
We hope that you ALL will become members of COGnITO, but for those of you who are interested in doing a little more, please let us know! We always need help with organizing events, but more importantly we love new ideas. The more brains, the better. We appreciate any feedback you would like to share. For any questions or concerns, email: CognitoUva (at) gmail.com