What is lunch & LRN?
We are happy to introduce you to our new concept LUNCH & LRN. The familiar lunch lectures from BRUCC Wellbeing have been given a fresh new look. The title already suggests that it’s absolutely fine to enjoy your lunch while listening to useful and insightful information on wellbeing-related topics.
What does this mean?
Lunch & LRN always takes place from 12:00 to 13:00 and is hybrid: you can join from home while working remotely, or you can attend in person in the Promotie zaal where these short presentations are held. Lunch & LRN is free of charge and, as always, open to all VUB staff members.
What’s it about?
Lunch & LRN is a collaboration between BRUCC Wellbeing and the LRN team within M&O. In preventing mental health problems, access to information is an important first step. With these presentations, we aim to make a meaningful contribution. For this academic year, we already have several topics planned.
If you experience difficulties registering, feel free to email us at bruccwelzijn@vub.be. And if you’re missing a topic that you would find particularly interesting, let us know—we’ll be happy to take it into account.
Recordings of previous lunch lectures can be found below.
PROMOTIEZAAL - from 12:00 untill 13:00
Program 2025 - 2026
In this presentation Laura Lingenti (PHD) helps us understand and deal with gender diversity in society, in people around us and in ourselves.
“You’re born naked, and the rest is drag”, said RuPaul, highlighting how the hyperbolics and fluidity of drag expose the structures of the binary gender system we live in.
This presentation will explore the concepts of gender and resilience from a critical psychology perspective, drawing on the work of foundational theorists alongside recent insights in research.
The session will examine identity formation at the intersection between self and society, traditional psychological approaches to resilience, their connections to systems of power, and how to make resilience more applicable to those whose identities have been a target of research while at the same time being left out.
What you will learn
- Conceptualising modern binary gender systems
- Touching upon identity formation
- Connecting gender and resilience to systems of power
- Illuminating traditional and contemporary concepts of resilience in psychology
- Listening to the right voices and moving forward
Registration possible until 02/12/25 12:00
Past lectures
The importance of sleep for our health and wellbeing cannot be stressed enough. In this short amount of time, Aurore Roland (PHD) will help you understand what a good night sleep looks like and how you may improve the quality of your sleep.
You will learn about sleep-wake mechanisms, about interpersonal differences in quality and need for sleep, about factors in our lives that may influence your sleep, such as stress, light and noise.
You will also learn about sleep hygiene. This includes steps you can take to improve the environmental conditions in which you sleep. This also includes all you can do to prepare your body and mind to going to sleep. Part of this is learning correct sleep-wake behaviour such as keeping a regular sleeping pattern and avoiding activities that may keep you awake.
This session is for you if you are interested in improving your quality of sleep.
Prof. Dr. Martijn Van Heel discussed cyberbullying with attention to the differences and similarities with offline bullying. Cyberbullying is prevalent throughout society and impacts an individual’s need for belongingness. The impact of cyberbullying on mental health will be discussed with a focus on the formative years of adolescence.
In this short lecture, we've learned what cyberbullying looks like, what the mechanism behind cyberbullying is, and what impact this has on the mental health of children and adolescents.
Are you a parent? Then this lecture may be of even more interest to you!