Biography
Sacha van Leeuwen is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Public Administration and Sociology. Her current research focuses on how to evaluate the societal impact of transdisciplinary research. Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA), she aims to uncover the organizational conditions that enable and hinder 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 research; collective memory; online war commemoration.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Work
- Rik Smit & Sacha van Leeuwen (2024) - Digital activism in the future past: How Dutch Extinction Rebellion activists connect past, present and future in their memory work on Instagram - Memory Studies, 17 (5), 1157-1176 - doi: 10.1177/17506980241264512
