Lavinia Marin receives LEaDing Fellowship

As per 1 January 2020 Lavinia Marin will receive a LEaDing Fellowship. She will research how to foster critical thinking in online environments.

There is a growing concern that online social platforms are actively facilitating the spread of misinformation with detrimental effects for democratic citizenship. One of the most popular solutions to counteract this tendency has been the proposal to implement education for critical thinking at younger ages and at all levels of education, following the intuition that a critical thinker also becomes a critical online user who will not take things for granted nor spread misinformation further. In her project Marin will examine this assumption by raising the question whether critical thinking can be exercised just as easily in online environments as in offline environments. She will also investigate whether online informational resources, such as online platforms can be designed in different ways as to allow for more critical thinking.

About LEaDing Fellows Programme
The LEaDing Fellows Postdoc Programme provides 90 researchers from all over the world who recently obtained a PhD, with the opportunity to gain two years of work experience in the challenging, internationally acclaimed and multidisciplinary environment offered by Leiden University, Leiden University Medical Centre, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology.