Biography
Sacha van Leeuwen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology. Within the Evaluating Societal Impact team, she is investigating how to evaluate the societal impact of transdisciplinary research.
Prior to this, she was a Lecturer in Sociology, Media Studies, and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences at various universities in the Netherlands. She completed her BA and RMA in History at Utrecht University, with a specialisation in memory studies. Her PhD in Sociology at the University of Glasgow focused on the online commemoration of fallen British soldiers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan. She investigated how digital technologies influence how we remember and commemorate the past.
Her research interest include: societal impact evaluation; transdisciplinary education; collective memory; online war commemoration.
