International Week Allied Health and Social Studies 2026

09.00-10.30: Eva Beltman

FutureFit

Sociologist and business administrator Eva Beltman became the trend watcher of the HAN University of Applied Sciences after completing the Trendacademy. In this key note she asks the question: How are we fit for the future?! Imagine future, with music and pictures.

Let’s picture the future!

10.45-12.15: Liliana Montoya De La Cruz

Working Creatively with Cultural Difference in Social and Educational Settings

This lecture will help students understand how to work creatively with people from different cultural backgrounds in settings such as schools, social services, community and humanitarian organisation. Through examples from practice, the lecture looks at how creativity can support communication, trust, and inclusion, especially when there are language or cultural barriers. Students will invited to reflect on their professional role, the influence of institutions, and how to work in respectful, flexible, and ethical ways.

10.45-12.15: Marcela Andrade del Corro

Poverty and Deprivation, Creativity and Inclusion

The reality of poverty and deprivation extends across the globe, often to a point where it creates communities in despair, where the tension and violence amongst its individuals is palpable and the emotional suffering is passed over from generation to generation. This is the reality of a small community in Glasgow, the city with the lowest life expectancy in West Europe. In this presentation, we will discuss long-lasting effects of children growing in communities impacted by poverty and deprivation, we will examine the role of professionals in creating safe spaces and communities where children can grow embracing hope and opportunities.

International Week health and social studies talkshow

13.00-14.30: Els van Driel

Els van Driel

Award-winning investigative journalist and documentarian Els van Driel. Els is a freelance and independent crossmedia journalist/director. Her interests go out to religion, interreligious conflicts, human- and children’s rights and refugees and asylum policies. She is co- director and founder of the multimedia production ‘The Asylummachine’ (nominee Gouden Kalf interactive competition Dutch Filmfestival 2016) and ‘The Deal’, an analysis about the consequences of the EU-Turkey deal in 2017. In 2020 she co-directed Shadow Game, a multi award winning transmedia documentary project about unaccompanied refugee children in Europe. Her current motto is: ‘inherit your child’s eyes and look through them’.

elsvandriel.nl

14.45-16.00: Archell Thompson

Networking Event: Rewrite your story and change your life

This session is in Dutch:

"Als kind hoorde ik mijn vader iets zeggen dat een diepe indruk op mij maakte. Hij sprak onze Nederlandse buren op Curaçao altijd met u aan, ook al waren ze veel jonger dan hij.

Toen ik hem vroeg waarom, zei hij: 'Witte mensen zijn slimme mensen, daarom moet je ze aanspreken met u.'

Op dat moment werd een zaadje geplant: het gevoel van minderwaardigheid. Een overtuiging die mij jarenlang onbewust heeft beïnvloed – en waar ik soms nog steeds tegenaan loop.

In de bijdrage van Archell, gaan we in op dit soort ervaringen. We onderzoeken hoe kleine opmerkingen en overtuigingen zich kunnen ontwikkelen tot beperkende gedachten, en hoe ze doorwerken in ons leven.

Maar belangrijker: we ontdekken hoe je deze verhalen kunt transformeren tot bronnen van kracht en groei."