Joram van Ketel teaches psychology and statistics at the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. Additionally, he’s a musician and works as a thesis supervisor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague. He’s also a member of the Music Brain and Health Technology Lab in Leiden.

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Joram van Ketel teaches psychology and statistics at the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University. Additionally, he’s a musician and works as a thesis supervisor at the Royal Conservatoire of Music in The Hague. He’s also a member of the Music Brain and Health Technology Lab in Leiden.

Research on training complex skills

Van Ketel is interested in research on learning and performing complex skills. As a trombonist and teacher he is inspired by the needs from the practical field, and as a psychologist convinced of the benefits of a scientific approach.

In his research, he likes to focus on the direct relevance of research for (educational) practice. For example, if a learning strategy or instructional method seems to work, does it really deliver learning benefits, or does it just feel that way? And if such a tactic really does work, what does the teacher or student need to know to deploy it adequately? Can such an adaptation also benefit the learning of other skills?

Teaching

Van Ketel is (has been) involved as a teacher or assistant coordinator in the following courses:

• Introduction to Methods and Statistics
• Inferential Statistics
• Experimental and Correlational Research
• Music Cognition
• Psychometrics
• Multivariate Data Analysis
• Determinants of Human Behavior (part of BA Urban Studies in The Hague)
• Introduction to Psychology
• Social and Organizational Psychology
• Personality, Clinical and Health Psychology
• Bio- and Neuropsychology
• Academic Skills Tutorship
• Perspective on Career Planning

Short CV

Before his current positions, Van Ketel worked as a working group teacher for several first-year courses in the Bachelor of Psychology at Leiden University. At this university, he pursued a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (Cum Laude) and a Master's degree in Cognitive Psychology, which he completed Summa Cum Laude in 2017. His undergraduate thesis concerned laparoscopic surgery training at LUMC.

Trombonist

Van Ketel's master's thesis focused on the practice behavior of students at the Royal Conservatory of Music. A trombonist, he then also completed the Bachelor of Music there in 2020. In addition to freelance performances, he forms an active duo with organist Iddo van der Giessen. 

See an impression here. 

Publications