VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSW)

Lecturer qualitative research methods/Atlas.ti

See my linkedIn profile for a course overview.

Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment, Inspectorate of SZW

March 2016 - March 2018 (freelance/ZZP)
- Atlas.ti 8, practical user manual
- Atlas.ti 'training on the Job' / trainer qualitative research methodologies

Webster University Leiden Campus (2012 - 2015)

Undergraduate courses:

- INTL 3500 Environment & Energy Security (Fall 2012, Fall 2015, semester course)
- POLT 1050 Introduction to International Relations (Fall 2014, semester course)
- PHIL 2360 Environmental Ethics (Spring 2013)

Language of tuition: English

My research is focussing on land issues globally: effectiveness of soft law instruments (voluntary guidelines/codes of conduct), large-scale land acquisitions (LSLA) in the context of the climate-food-energy nexus, role of 'middle-men' elites, role of ICT's in improving land governance, uprise of peasant movements.

More specifically my PhD project focuses on 'Land Grabbing in the Post-Socialist Era? - The Role of Intermediary Elites in Eastern European Transitional Democracies'.

Scholars in the international land debate frequently refer to the important role of local and national governments and elites in initiating and facilitating land deals, however without a further elaboration and conceptualization of these important actors. I am trying to grasp this specific part in the context of Post-Communist Transitional Eastern European Democracies still struggling with the legacy of communism embedded in their institutions and social structures, which paves the way for so-called elite entrepreneurs or defined by myself as 'intermediary elites' (based upon a first theoretical exploration of the field), entering the property playing field. In a comparative case study analysis I would like to conduct semi-structured interviews, combined with a Social Network Analysis (SNA), hereby applying theories from the disciplines of anthropology, sociology & political science.

The concept of 'Land Grabbing', most likely adopted from NGOs/CSOs to indicate the urge of the matter, is currently being used as a catch-all term and needs further conceptualization.

I have reviewed articles for the Canadian Journal of Development Studies (CJDS) and the Journal of Land Use Science.

Erasmus+ Staff Mobility for Teaching & Training in Romania

UNIVERSITATEA BABEŞ-BOLYAI, CLUJ-NAPOCA, ROMANIA

May 2017

May 2018

Overall objectives of the mobility:

The overall objective of the mobility was to provide Bachelor (course 'Communication in the Public Sector'), Master & PhD students (seminar) of Communication with knowledge on ‘Land Grabbing in Eastern Europe’, and to teach the students on qualitative research methodologies in the context of their specific research.

Main goals:

1. Teaching in the field of qualitative research methodologies. Which methodologies are currently applied in the context of Political Communication and how can the students advance and broaden their knowledge both theoretically as well as practically in the field of qualitative research.
2. To share recent research findings on land grabbing in Eastern Europe, with a specific focus on Romania with students from Romania and to discuss their practical experiences with land issues.

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