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As an interdisciplinary researcher, with a background in cultural studies and socio-ecological research, I study relationships between humans and nature. My key interests are emotional experiences in nature, digital interactions with nature, and citizen science as a practice that connects us with nature.

My PhD research at Radboud University (NL) was about the role of digital media in our affective relationships with nature. I am currently based at the Open Universiteit (NL) as a postdoctoral researcher. Here I continue research on human-nature relationships and the plural valuation of nature.

I also enjoy bridging science and society, and motivating a more nature-friendly worldview through participation, education and communication projects.

Publications and other works can be found below.

Publications and other work

Attending to more-than-human life and loss: digitally mediated affects of ecological citizen scientists
(2025) PhD Thesis (Radboud University)
Supervised by Riyan van den Born, Noelle Aarts & Roel Smeets

Dealing with environmental loss: teaching about grief and hope
(2024) Presentation during the Communicating Climate Hope conference hosted by Tilburg University
Together with Riyan van den Born

Affective encounters with more-than-humans: digital platforms in a time of environmental loss
(2024) Conservation & Society
Together with Riyan van den Born and Noelle Aarts

Archiving (lost) nature: Hybrid experiences and memorisation through participatory digital archives
(2022) Journal of Environmental Media

Pumpkinseed Fish
(2022) Grounding Value in the Anthropocene [website and educational tool]
Together with Riyan van den Born

Learning to be affected by birds
(2021) EnviroCitizen [Blog post]

Affordances and tensions in recording bird observations: how coordinators and volunteers perceive and experience citizen science in birding
(2021) Journal of Science Communication
Together with Wessel Ganzevoort and Riyan van den Born

A digital field trip through (lost) nature: the value of participatory nature observation platforms
(2021) Presentation during the Digital Ecologies workshop hosted by the University of Cambridge

Data and narrative: the role of narrative in platforms for nature observations
(2020) Presentation during the workshop Narrative & Climate Change hosted by the Open University