Mark van Ostaijen
Job Title
Research Fellow
Building (Address)
Tilburg UniversityProfile
Postdoctoral researcher at the Tilburg Institute of Governance. In his research he studies the role and position of 'smart urban intermediaries' in Amsterdam. Before he started at Tilburg University, Mark worked at the Netherlands School of Public Administration (NSOB) and as lecturer and PhD candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR). In June 2017 he successfully defended his PhD thesis 'Worlds between Words. The politics of intra-European movement discourses'. During his PhD research he was a visiting doctoral researcher at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK).
Research interests
SmartUrbI is driven by a fascination for qualitative ethnographic research, for an urge to understand participative citizens better and to build up comparative knowledge about current urban issues.