Education of Knowledge, Technology and Innovation

KTI aims to create an inspiring educational environment, which enables a diversity of students to become culturally sensitive, reflexive and responsible change makers. In KTI courses, students learn to critically question historically developed hierarchies, structures, dominant narratives and practices associated with science and technology in society. Through interactive and transdisciplinary methods, we equip students to cultivate their own agency to enact socio-technical transformation in engagement with practitioners from various fields, including historically marginalized voices. In doing so, we nurture critical and reflexive students whose curiosity and care can confront the serious challenges of the world.

KTI offers ample opportunities for theses and internships. Below you can find a list of thesis titles, to give you an idea of the diversity of topics studied: 

BSc topics:  

• Social injustices due to discriminating algorithms: a case study of the Dutch Childcare Benefits Scandal (2023)  
• Revealing crop diversification in two areas of East Java – Physical geographical conditions as altitude, soil and weather as important factors affecting risk taking and different cropping patterns (2023)  
• Coloniality in North/South research collaborations: how university research collaborations and their funding structures reinforce eurocentrism and coloniality (2023) 
• The implications of Brazil-China cooperation for protection strategies for the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest and Indigenous People and Local Communities (2023)  
• Social movements & social media the case study of Black Lives Matter (2022)  

MSc topics:  

• Knowledge interaction in food production systems in Bono East and Upper West regions in Ghana (2023)  
• Towards more sustainable food practices: a Social Practice Theory perspective on change to plant-based food practices among Dutch youth (2022)  
• ''We want to write our own story'' A study on the perception of scholars and NGO practitioners regarding indigenous knowledge and development in Ghana   
• “That’s how we do it here in Jamaica”: An Ethnographic Exploration of Jamaican Masculinities, Sexual Behavior and Sexual and Reproductive Health-Seeking Behavior (2022) 
• ''We want to write our own story'' A study on the perception of scholars and NGO practitioners regarding indigenous knowledge and development in Ghana (2020)   

For more information on doing a thesis and/or internship at the KTI group, please take up contact. Send a message to education.cpt@wur.nl  for general questions or contact one of our thesis/internship coordinators for your study program directly.  

Thesis market

Twice a year, KTI organises a thesis market. On this market, you can check out our topics, meet our colleagues, and find out for yourself if you want to do your thesis at our chair group. Our thesis markets are organised in November and March. Please follow us on socials, where we will advert the thesis markets in advance.

KTI provides a wide range of courses. The table below presents a list of all courses that are (co-) provided by the KTI group. For more information on the contents and the schedule, we refer to the Study Handbook and the scheduling site, or simply follow the course links below.

• CPT 11806 - Technology Development and Natural Resources
• CPT 17306 - Communication, Innovation and Social Change
• CPT 22806 - Innovation and Transformation
• CPT 26306 - Cross-cultural studies
• CPT 28806 - Introduction to Communication and Technology in Rural Innovation and Development
• CPT 30806 - Social Justice Technology and Development
• CPT 33806 - Advanced Communication Science
• CPT 35806 - Intercultural Communication
• CPT 36806 - Critical Reflection on Research in International Development Practice
• CPT 37306 - Politics of Knowledge and Inclusive Innovation
• CPT 37806 - Researching Practices, Innovation and Futures
• CPT 38006 - Science Communication 2.0: Dialogue and Transdisciplinarity
• CPT 39806 - African Philosophy
• CPT 60306 - Facilitating Interactive Processes