Ankie de Haas has been working at the Versatile Expertise professorships since September 2016. She does this alongside her work as researcher at the Sustainable School Development professorships and her job as senior lecturer in welfare studies at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences.

Ankie de Haas has been working as senior lecturer at the welfare studies department of NHL University of Applied Sciences since 2005. She began her career in 1977 as a psychiatric nurse, and in 1988 became a trainer at the GGZ (mental health institution) in Franeker. After this she worked as a college lecturer for 13 years at the higher vocational nursing programme (HBO-V) of NHL University of Applied Sciences. In 2014 she graduated cum laude in her Master’s degree in Pedagogy.

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Drs. Ankie de Haas

Her masters thesis deals with the success factors in collaborative learning between intermediate vocational and higher vocational education programmes. Ankie has written a chapter on this study in the book ‘Tussen opleiding en beroepspraktijk’ (Between education and professional practice). At the Sustainable School Development professorships she currently carries out research into the effect of study skills programmes aimed at the transition from intermediate to higher vocational education.

Ankie is also a member of the Agile Craftsmanship knowledge network. Her great interest is ‘cross-boundary learning’. Participating in two professorships outside her own institute is an example of this. Together with her husband, she set up a ‘model and educational farm’ for arable and livestock farming in Togo (West Africa), where learning from and with one another is central. “Shortly Ankie hopes to start a Ph.D. on teaching welfare lecturers within training companies.