The next year Ruizendaal was awarded a doctoral fellowship by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and his supervising professor at Oxford University in Britain suggested that on his next trip to Taiwan Ruizendaal ought to spend three months researching puppetry in the Kaohsiung-Tainan area.
隔年，他申請到「荷蘭科學院博士研究獎學金」，在英國牛津大學指導教授建議下，第一次來到台灣，在高雄、台南等地進行為期 3 個月的傀儡戲研究。