Visiting Research Fellow
Carin Rustema
Carin Rustema, MSc MBA, has over 25 years of professional experience in the international higher education sectors (research and education) and held various international consultancy roles (public and private sector), focussing on cross-sector and cross-border collaboration, setting up international partnerships and consortia in Europe, Asia and North America (Canada).
Her work includes (new) educational and research program development, social innovation and impacting. She works in cross faculty and international teams on designing interdisciplinary, arts-based research and (short) educational programs around questions of social change, urban(in) justices, mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion and active community participation (PAR).
In her current role at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS – Centre of Expertise Just City), Carin is involved in numerous governance and advisory roles in the cultural and economic domain, working closely with the Municipality of Amsterdam (Community Wealth Building Economic Development and Urban Regeneration Nieuw West). Her research is mostly practice-oriented, action based, arts-based and highly collaborative. She currently works in a few neighbourhoods in the city of Amsterdam where topics like sense-of-belonging, hospitality and collective memory building play an important role in building urban environments for new residents finding a place called ‘home’.
Carin holds an MBA in Innovation from the University of Groningen (RUG) and MSc in Communication Science and Media from the University of Amsterdam (UvA). She is the Chair/Director of the (non-profit) initiative Stichting Doubleyoutee (2021) and Chair of the Board Stichting TILT Performance Art (2021), two innovative experimental platform for artistic research and the incubating of open educational programs.
*BUAS Breda University of Applied Science (Netherlands), ArtEZ University of the Arts (Netherlands), Amsterdam University of Applied Science (Netherlands)