Research

My work focuses on understanding what drives adults to engage in lifelong learning. Despite the growing need for continuous education, many people do not participate in training or skill development programs. Why? My research seeks to answer this question by identifying the psychological factors influencing lifelong learning participation.

To do this, I am:

• Developing an index that maps out key predictors of lifelong learning participation.

• Using the Reasoned Action Approach (Fishbein & Ajzen, 2010) to model the role of attitudes, norm and control perceptions in shaping an individual's likelihood to participate in work-related training and courses.

Recent publications and presentations :

• [preprint] Does mindfulness reduce automatic preference development?

• An article in edUMinded, EDLAB's online magazine on Teaching and Learning at Maastricht University: "Warming up the classroom: music, mindfulness, and reflection in PBL" 

• Commentary in Industrial and Organizational Psychology titled “When you Learn, you Grow: Concretizing Person-Centricity in Workplace Learning”, exploring the well-being effects of self-directed learning and calling for a more balanced approach.

• Education Festival, January 2025 at the School of Business and Economics, where I led sessions on “Cultivating Well-Being in Problem-Based Learning: Mindfulness, Music, and Reflection for Lifelong Learning”, discussing ways to integrate mindfulness, music, and reflection in education.