The Centre of Expertise Smart Sustainable Cities provides a platform where people from the business world and knowledge institutes join HU University of Applied Sciences to develop innovative products and services aiming to develop smart, sustainable and healthy cities. Students, businesses, lecturers and researchers collaborate in projects to generate and apply the latest knowledge and insight.Project#1: Sustainable mobilityAs partner in the international consortium Dreams, exploring, through co-created and user-centric mobility services, mobility and flexible activity hubs, how to actively contribute to creating accessible, sustainable, and inclusive 15-minute-city neighbourhoods in the urban outskirts of European cities and regions. Extensive research in six living labs across Europe: Budapest, Brussels, Munich, Paris, Utrecht, and Vienna. https://www.dreams15mc.eu/Project#2: Healthy and Sustainable Living EnvironmentAs partner in the regional consortium GeLUK, existing of public-private partnerships in the region of Utrecht investigating how to accelerate the development of a sustainable and healthy living environment in this region. Working in Living Labs, and contributing to the ambition of Utrecht to be climate neutral and have a circular economy by 2050.https://netwerk.wijzijnkatapult.nl/detail/1357/geluk-gezonde-leefomgeving-utrecht-kennisconsortium/netwerk/

System transition coaching & counseling, research, training and advisory for individuals and organizations to develop sustainable, healthy lives and environments.

Lecturer at the BBA-programme Global Project and Change Management of Windesheim Honours College in Zwolle, the Netherlands. The focus of the programme is to develop skills for social and sustainable entrepreneurship and management to tackle worldwide sustainability challenges (e.g. climate change, human rights, global health and the circular economy).

As part of the research group Social Innovation (Lectoraat), focusing on the energy transition related to sustainable and healthy living environments and the complexity of organizational transitions.

Supervising Master students in Social Policy Public Health and Bachelor students in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences in their thesis work. Instructor of four courses: Health in Society, Introduction to Behavioural Sciences, Youth Studies and the Multidisciplinary Society.

Researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science - part of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences at Utrecht University. This research concerns the mobility transition in cities. Proposing and evaluating interventions which aim to reduce car-use in cities. What mobility choices will citizens for example make when parking lots will be removed from the inner-city or when hubs to share (electric) vehicles are placed in the city? Presentation in english: https://vimeo.com/552660035Project information in Dutch:https://www.verdus.nl/project/opening-van-een-hub-voor-deelvervoer-en-veranderingen-in-reisgedrag/https://www.verdus.nl/uitdagingen-bij-de-verdubbeling-van-de-elektrische-deelmobiliteit/Presentation Innovatie Expo 2021 (in Dutch):https://www.innovatieexpo2021.nl/programmaonderdelen/sessie/3354c187/

Developing and teaching research methods to master student in urban design

Research at the research group Psychology for Sustainable Cities, part of the Amsterdam Research Institute for Societal InnovationProjects (principal researcher):1) Car-less cities and exploring the option of Mobility as a Service: how do attitudes and mobility choices change when 100 citizens hand in their private cars for two months and start to use other means of transportation in the city of Amsterdam? See video (copy and past it in your browser): https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=pLmXgNI3RPk&feature=emb_logo2) Wood for the Neighbourhood: Up-cycling wood in the Dapperbuurt Amsterdam: what are the behaviours and attitudes towards wood up-cycling in this neighbourhood? What policies are supporting up-cycling of wood? What interventions are needed to encourage residents to hand in their wood for up-cycling?3) Encourage Cycling for Children in Amsterdam Nieuw-West: what are young people's attitudes and behaviours towards cycling in this neighbourhood? What interventions could encourage them to cycle more?

1) Coordinating a research project on the potential of citizens science in the energy transition in urban areas. Specific focus on public housing. Comparative research among 7 international cities;2) Research on the potential of everyday urban practices in cities and its role in developing an adaptive urban planning approach which aims for achieving inclusive (co-created, for all) and climate neutral cities and urban regions.

An interdisciplinary introduction (20 hours course) to the environmental situation of the countries in the global south. Location of the course: Hoi An University, Hoi An Vietnam

This post doctoral position at the Center for Urbanisation, Culture & Society, was part of a partnership research which brought together Canadian and Vietnamese researchers and NGOs to examine the provision and use of public spaces in Hanoi. Our focus was on youth a transitional segment of the Vietnamese urban population whose socio-spatial practices received scarce research and policy attention. In exploring this group’s “onstage” (formal) and “backstage” (informal) uses of public spaces, this study uncovered processes of youth identity formation in a rapidly urbanizing Asian context. It also sheded light on the means through which teenagers, standing between older socialist ideals and emerging middle-class aspirations, attempted to carve a space for themselves during Vietnam’s urban and market transitions.http://www.labovespa.ca/en/research-projects/ongoing-projects-88/urbanisation-and-insecurity-218/youth-friendly-public-spaces-in-a

At the UNIS secondary school (grades 6-12) I greatly enjoyed working on an on-call-basis as substitute teacher and tutor in the subjects Sciences, Maths, Humanities, Art & Design, Drama as well supervising IB exams, supporting new Dutch students with the English language and assisting in counselling students with learning difficulties.

Advisory for the Netherlands based company Urban Solutions. Team leader of a tailor made training for the Hue Monument and Conservation Center (Vietnam). Title of the training: "Capacity Building for Heritage Management in an Urban Context for the World Heritage Listed Hue City through GIS application". This training is funded by the Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Cooperation (NUFFIC).

1) Urban research for ‘Vietnamese Cities Profiles Book’, this is a book part of the Urban Observatory System (UOS) project by UN-HABITAT & the Association of Cities in Vietnam. The UOS was developed to monitor the targeted Millennium Development Goals related to urban development in Vietnam. The book focusses on regional differences of Vietnamese city development. My main responsibility was to identify the key aspects per region and specific city, and synthesise the results.2) Contributed to the development of the Vietnam Housing Sector Profile which is an in-depth analysis of the various dimensions of housing and highlights some constraints that require the attention of public policy.

Program advisor / program manager for the Livable Cities Program in Vietnam. This project aimed to influence policy in Vietnam with focus on four goals: (1) To re-create a culture of walking in Hanoi; (2) To increase the number of safe, accessible, and usable public spaces in Hanoi; (3) To support walking in Hanoi with a convenient, safe, reliable and easy to understand public transit system, (4) To increase access to healthy foods. My key responsibilities for the position were to provide support and build capacity of program and project managers in the technical design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation and public relations, networking, fundraising, and representation. This role included expert advice work for detailed input to the development of the Viet Nam Public Space Policy 2013 and advisory to the Department of Industry and Trade on the development of the Policy for retail development (special focus on protecting the public markets as public spaces) in Hanoi. The Hanoi People's Committee revised the retail development policy in favor of the public markets in June 2012. In this position I worked very closely with several Vietnamese governmental agencies.

In charge of the research project "Globalisation of Urban Forms in Hanoi". This project is one part of the collaborative project "Globalisation of Urban Forms in Palermo, Ouagadougou and Hanoi". My main responsibilities were to deliver project design, including research methodology, fieldwork coordination, conducting interviews, analysis of data and development of the report, monitor the budget, built partnerships with Vietnamese government and universities (Institute of Sociology & University if Civil Engineering). I was responsible for the staff, recruited, hired & supervised 10 staff & 3 experienced national consultants, and organized and facilitated 2 dissemination workshops. In addition to this research I curated the Hanoi part of an extended international exposition that took place in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2011).

My main responsibility was to strengthen research and innovation in general and to improve knowledge sharing among the different departments and regional offices of the company in the Netherlands. In addition I contributed to increasing knowledge exchanges between the company and other companies, institutes and local government in the region. With DHV taking the lead, together we established an independent platform for knowledge sharing among private companies, non profit sector and academic institutes to strengthen innovation in the Southern region of the Netherlands. This platform is still functioning well today.

Studio Hanoi. Working with students in Hanoi Vietnam and Ithaca NY, USA.

A 40 hour course on research methodology for master students in urban design

Post-Graduate Studio. Studio Hanoi. Working with students in Hanoi Vietnam and Ithaca NY, USA.