Ruth Frans (EUR, Wolfert Bilingual)

Ruth is a part-time PhD candidate at the Erasmus SYNC lab. She also teaches Global Politics in a secondary school in the centre of Rotterdam. The title of her research project is ‘Teaching for Purpose: encouraging purpose development in adolescents through an integrated approach in classroom settings‘. Ruth uses principles of design-thinking and co-creation to develop approaches together with students and teachers to ‘teach for purpose’.