Nienke Moolenaar
Nienke Moolenaar is a faculty member at the Department of Education at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Nienke earned her PhD (cum laude - with honor) in June 2010 at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on research on social networks in elementary school teams. Her dissertation has been awarded the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category Educational Leadership and Strategy.
In her dissertation, titled 'Ties with potential: Nature, antecedents, and consequences of social networks in school teams', Nienke focused on how social relationships among teachers matter for schools, in terms of innovation, trust, shared decision-making, and ultimately, student achievement. She conducted her research in 61 elementary schools in The Netherlands. She also replicated her study in the US in five elementary schools in the greater San Diego, CA area. During this period, Nienke was in residence at the University of California, San Diego, where she collaborated with Prof. Dr. Alan Daly.
From 2012 to 2014, Nienke worked at the University of California, San Diego on research funded by a Rubicon Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Her work focuses on the co-evolution of social networks and educational change. Drawing on complexity theory and literature on dynamic systems, and using longitudinal network modeling and multilevel modeling, her work aims to understand how educators' social networks change during educational reform and how this network change supports and constrains school improvement in terms of teachers' instructional practice and student achievement.
Supervisors: Peter J.C. Sleegers and Sjoerd Karsten
Phone: +31 6 24 24 57 59
Address: P.O.Box 80140
3508 TC Utrecht
The Netherlands
Nienke earned her PhD (cum laude - with honor) in June 2010 at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on research on social networks in elementary school teams. Her dissertation has been awarded the 2010 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category Educational Leadership and Strategy.
In her dissertation, titled 'Ties with potential: Nature, antecedents, and consequences of social networks in school teams', Nienke focused on how social relationships among teachers matter for schools, in terms of innovation, trust, shared decision-making, and ultimately, student achievement. She conducted her research in 61 elementary schools in The Netherlands. She also replicated her study in the US in five elementary schools in the greater San Diego, CA area. During this period, Nienke was in residence at the University of California, San Diego, where she collaborated with Prof. Dr. Alan Daly.
From 2012 to 2014, Nienke worked at the University of California, San Diego on research funded by a Rubicon Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Her work focuses on the co-evolution of social networks and educational change. Drawing on complexity theory and literature on dynamic systems, and using longitudinal network modeling and multilevel modeling, her work aims to understand how educators' social networks change during educational reform and how this network change supports and constrains school improvement in terms of teachers' instructional practice and student achievement.
Supervisors: Peter J.C. Sleegers and Sjoerd Karsten
Phone: +31 6 24 24 57 59
Address: P.O.Box 80140
3508 TC Utrecht
The Netherlands
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