• Thorough interviewing

    For master students of the Faculty of History and Arts of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, I gave a guest lecture on interview skills. Focusing on practical matters, I emphasized the importance of coherence between research question, key concepts and epistemology, and the type of interview one conducts. Furthermore, we discussed issues like access and location,… Read More

  • The art of qualitative data analysis

    The Kohnstamm Instituut, a research centre in the field of education, child rearing and child welfare, invited me to give a workshop on MaxQDA, a software programme for qualitative data-analysis. I discussed the possibilities and impossibilities of the programme in a hands-on two hour workshop. Read More

  • Gender and popular music

    I was invited to speak on the IASPM Benelux meeting on gender and popular music. Drawing from my work with young girls talking about celebrities, I talked about identitication and disidentification, the process of liking and non-liking and girls' identity work. Read More

  • God 2.0

    God manifests himself in very different forms on the internet. The former website GodTube.com (now Tangle.com) has it all. The good: And the very very dark: The Catharina Halkesfonds (a foundation for feminist theologists) invited me to speak at their yearly seminar. Under the title ‘God 2.0’, I spoke about religion… Read More