Teaching - stewarding - supervising
I truly love teaching. I aim to practice the art of never teaching the same thing twice, but always come up with a fresh and newly informed approach. Together with fellow learners - students, co-teachers, teaching assistants and artists - I have written several texts about our explorations of what more regenerative education could look like (see publications).
Since I currently serve as the Programme Director for the International Development Studies Masters and Research Masters, I am less directly involved in working with university courses for students than previous years, except for our exploratory co-created course "Collaborative (un)Learning in IDS". I worked for almost two decades as lecturer and course coordinator in various BA, MA and PhD courses, including : RMA Re-imagining Development Studies (now: Collaborative (Un)Learning in IDS); BA Education and Inclusive Development; RMA Purpose, Portfolio and Proposal Development; RMS Situating Research in IDS; (R)MA Education, Development and Social Justice; RMR Politics of Education, Conflict and Peacebuilding, BA Introduction to IDS.
I continue to facilitate co-created and developmental professional learning communities for fellow educators at the University of Amsterdam (see FRIS or DLC-SEE).
Within the School of Regenerative Educators, I co-facilitate the Developmental Community series together with Koen Wessels - serving an international community of regenerative pioneers working in the broad field of education and learning (more info here).


PhD supervision
Current PhD supervision
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Ben Haokip – Armed Conflict and its Implications in Manipur, India: Role of Education and Youth Agency towards Peace building
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Marleen Spieker – Youth empowerment, social change & justice through an intersectional lens: perspectives from youth, development workers and community-led initiatives in post-conflict Liberia and Syria
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Jonas Da Costa Carinhas - Teacher Agency in Established Higher Education Structures for Regenerative Higher Education
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Anthony Guevara - Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Acute Humanitarian Emergencies
Completed PhD supervision
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Elizabeth Maber – Constructing female citizenship in transition: women’s activism and education in Myanmar (completed in 2017)
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Sean Higgins – The Agency of Teachers in conflict-affected Sierra Leone (completed in 2020)
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Cyril Brandt – Teachers and the state in the D.R. Congo: The ambiguity of seeking inclusion to an omnipresent but opaque state (completed in 2018)
I have supervised over 100 Master and Research Master students (with currently no space for new students) and truly enjoy supervising PhD researchers, however I have limited space to take on more PhD supervision at the moment.