Mathieu Paapst

Lecturer Law, Faculty of Law

I have been working as a lecturer Law and ICT within the faculty of Law since 2008. My multidisciplinary background and my empathy enables me to represent employees in other faculties and research areas. I have experienced firsthand the undesirable results of budget cuts.

I plan to uphold the following positions:

• Facilitate staff in place and time independent work.
• Employees need a place for open discussion with colleagues. Therefore we need to create more team spaces.
• We need to facilitate small research areas and ensure that small faculties can participate in the universities policy and decision making proces.
• Not the returns, but academic education should be the Unique Selling Point of our university.
• The student-staff ratio must improve so that scientists regain time for doing research and research applications, and for supervising PhD students.
• Copyright remains with the researcher. However, Open Access publishing will get an irreversible stimulus.