Fanny de Swart is a developmental psychologist and a registered healthcare psychologist. She is an Assistant Professor of psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) and works as a postdoctoral reseacher at Leiden University. Her research interests involve social processes in classrooms, such as peer relationships, teacher-child relationships, and groupdynamics. She is interested in ways to apply intensive longitudinal data to learn more about day-to-day social processes in classrooms during the school year. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University with her dissertation: "social processes in special education classrooms: the role of teachers and peers for pupils' adjustment". She has a background working in special education for pupils with Emotional and/or Behavioral Disorders. Within this field she has a special interest for and experience in education - youthcare trajectories involving pupils at risk for school drop-out. She teaches Groupdynamics in the postacademic education for schoolpsychologist.

Bachelor:

• B3: Diagnostiek (coördinator)

Master:

• Psychodiagnostiek in de praktijk van de klinisch ontwikkelingspsycholoog (docent)
• Evidence based interventies bij Kinderen en adolescenten (docent)
• Problemen op School (coördinator)
• Stagedocent
• Mthesis supervisie

My current research focusses on three projects:

- BeGRP - testing a perspective taking instrument for teachers (Leiden University), to foster responsive teacher practices

- SCCILLS - teacher-child relationships and social-emotional learning (SEL)

- Groupdynamics - de gouden weken [golden weeks]

See for publications, the list below.

• Radboud CSW | Nijmegen | zelfstandige (docent) | 2020-12-01 - present
• RINO | Amsterdam | zelfstandige (docent) | 2021-04-01 - present

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