The circle is round, not only because this is the last episode of the year, but also because we started this year with a young researcher’s science and music dialogue and her approach to translating research into a poem and live music – or in other words combining rationality with emotions.
We end this year with Leonoor Opstelten, a young researcher who used improvisation and music as an experimental approach for her thesis on forest and nature conservation. With this approach, she won the Birgit Elands thesis prize just a few weeks ago.
In her thesis, she included five piano pieces accompanying five different storylines – patterns and themes that resulted from her research. Let’s listen to the research, its story, and the beautiful music.
Listen now to The Role of Emotions and Rationality in Research
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Show notes
- Connect with Leonoor: www.linkedin.com/in/leonoor-opstelten-088957297
- Download her thesis: https://edepot.wur.nl/657505
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