Evaluating Societal Impact team

As the Academic Lead I want to foster the transition towards societal impact at the EUR. I provide overall direction for ESI and ensure that it is well aligned with the agenda of the board and the various entities within the university.

As a Project Manager I create the preconditions that enable the team members to work towards the main objectives of the project: developing an impact governance structure and methods for impact evaluation with and for the EUR community. This will help the EUR community to work on their impact in a more structured way and to become an impact driven University!

As an Impact Project Officer, I look forward to exploring how we can achieve our shared EUR ambition of being one community, working together to create positive impact with society.

My role in the ESI project is to study the evaluation of societal impact. I also contribute to developing our research methodologies. Finally, I maintain our links with the international scientific debate about impact.

Together with our team, I provide advise on how to formulate school-level impact ambition and strategy as well as monitoring and evaluation frameworks, methods, and metrics that reflect individual and team values.

As a Junior Researcher at ESI, I work with the team to develop and improve impact strategies, governance structures, and (evaluation) tools with the aim of maximising societal impact EUR-wide.

Within the ESI team, I collaborate with faculties to increase the understanding and incorporation of societal impact activities through the development of evaluation tools and governance processes.

As a Junior Researcher at ESI, I work within a team to help create the building blocks to facilitate EUR’s advancement towards becoming an impact-driven university. This involves developing schools’ impact strategies and ambitions, as well as creating and testing interactive evaluation tools.

My job is to make sure that our team delivers impact evaluation methods to people at EUR in a useful and ’user-friendly’ way. Building on my background in human-centered design (product-, graphic-, and interaction design) I translate theories into hands-on tools that are rooted in people’s needs and wishes. (Perhaps I can even make them fun!)

I am working on theory and practice of facilitating social change. As a sociologist and field researcher my own research trajectory bridges the social and life sciences. My research project with three Erasmus Initiatives studies the infrastructures that condition and mediate transdisciplinary collaborations, and our research work on societal impact in the team will adopt these empirical insights.

In my PhD research I focus on the societal impact of social obstetrics: an interdisciplinary field of the social, medical and public health domain. In this research the Erasmus Medical Centre and the Erasmus University work together to combine their expertise on impact research and social obstetrics. As part of the ESI-team I aim to gain insights in how we can effectively apply impact research in these different domains.