Marieke is involved with DIT as organisational lead. She is very excited about DIT as an organisational experiment to change the university from the inside – it’s a transformation she believes is very much needed.
Marieke de Wal
Organisational Lead
Marieke de Wal has been working for the EUR as researcher and managing director of the Partnerships Resource Centre at RSM since 2014. She has a particular interest in how multistakeholder partnerships work and how they can contribute to sustainable and inclusive transformations. In her action research projects, Marieke engages with societal stakeholders in all phases of research – design (developing learning questions), implementation (data-collection), validation (sense-making), and dissemination (publication of lessons and insights and tool development).
Marieke is involved with DIT as organisational lead. She coordinates the work of the quarter masters and the academic staff, is involved in monitoring the process of DIT objectives and ensures close connection with EUR schools and EUR initiatives. She is very excited about DIT as an organisational experiment to change the university from the inside – it’s a transformation she believes is very much needed.
Marieke trained as a philosopher and has learned to think critically and to be open to different perspectives. In her spare time, Marieke likes to read and hike, and to dance. She also loves spending time with her family over good food or by traveling together. She is open-minded, focused on discovering new ways of working together, curious and occasionally provocative. She likes to be guided by this self-willed statement from a little-known and fictional philosopher, Pippi Longstocking, in the stories by Astrid Lindgren. Pippi says: “I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.”
Please feel free to contact Marieke via email.