After completing my Master’s studies in criminology at the University of Brussels (Belgium) I worked as a victim-offender mediator at the Flemish organisation Suggnome, Forum for Restorative Justice and Mediation and as a research associate Social Work at the Erasmus University College Brussels. In 2012, I obtained a PhD in criminology at the University of Brussels (Belgium). For my doctoral research I did an ethnographic research on restorative justice practices in a Belgian maximum security prison. In 2015, I moved to Sheffield to join the School of Law at the University of Sheffield on a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship on a European research project regarding desistance from crime and restorative justice practices in prisons in Belgium and England and Wales. In 2018, I was appointed Lecturer on forensic care, restorative justice and prison studies at the Avans University of Applied Studies in The Netherlands.
Listed skills include Restorative Justice, Qualitative Research, Criminology, Prisons, and 13 others.