Projects & activities
Much of my work lies at the intersection of
scientific research and communications.
My projects and activities have all in some way contributed to my primary objective: contributing to transformative social and environmental change. ​
Past projects & activities
​Writer and researcher for Bron, an art-science book published by The Eriskay Connection in September 2022 on Cape Town's 2017–2018 water crisis. Funded by the Mondriaan Fonds, Stichting Stokroos, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, and Voordekunst crowdfunding.
[2020–2022]​
​​Awarded funding from the CI Research Communication Fund (through KNAW grant "Pilotfonds Wetenschapscommunicatie door Wetenschappers: Gewaardeerd!") to provide academic blogging training.
[April 2021]​​
​Student assistant at De Haagse Hogeschool (The Hague University of Applied Sciences) for the project "Implications of Climate Change for the Professional Practice of the Dutch Police" resulting in a co-creation workshop [September 2022] and a presentation at the "Halfjaaroverleg Klimaat en Veiligheid, Politie Nederland, Knooppunt Duurzaamheid, December 2022".
[2022]​​
Academic blogging workshop
Creative communications workshop
OECD DAC Peer Review
of the Netherlands
Development Dialogue PhD Conference
Development Dialogue PhD Conference
Member of the Transformative Methodologies Working Group (funded by the ISS's Research Innovation Fund).
[2021-2022]​​
Presenter of an academic blogging workshop at the 19th Development Dialogue conference for PhD researchers.
[October 2023]
Co-convener with Sylvia Bergh of a conference panel titled "Heatwaves and Urban Resilience: Citizen, Government, and Private Sector Responses" at the EADI CEsA Lisbon Conference 2023. [July 2023]
Presenter of a creative communications workshop at the 2023 annual retreat of ISS's Civic Innovation Research Group.
[August 2023]
Rapporteur for the International Conclave for Justice and Accountability for Rohingya.
[October 2019]
Commentator at the Launch of the Report on the OECD/DAC Peer Review of the Netherlands.
[June 2017]
Member of the organizing committee of the Development Dialogue conference for PhD researchers of the International Institute of Social Studies.
[2017]
Chair of the organizing committee of the Development Dialogue conference for PhD researchers of the International Institute of Social Studies.
[2015]