About the author 174 About the author Angela Zuijderduijn-de Jong was born on 14 January 1993 in Meerkerk, the Netherlands. She obtained her high school degree (Autheneum) in 2011 from Lyceum Oudehoven in Gorinchem and her BSc in Educational Sciences in 2014 at Utrecht University. During her Bachelor program she went to Universitetet i Oslo (Erasmus Exchange Program) and completed an Honors program. In 2016 she obtained her MSc, a research Master’s in Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction, from Utrecht University. During her Master’s, she worked as a research assistant at TIAS (Tilburg University), where her interest in social network analysis began, and was an intern at Oberon (research and consultancy organization). In 2016, Angela started working at Oberon as a researcher. Together with her future PhD-team she wrote an NRO-application, which succeeded. In June 2017, Angela started as an external PhD candidate at the Department of Education at Utrecht University, alongside her job at Oberon. Her PhD project consisted of a five-year study of the Foundation leerKRACHT program. She wrote both yearly research reports and scientific articles. During her PhD, she gave a dozen oral presentations (guest lecturer, conferences). One day a week,Angela worked on several other research projects at Oberon, mainly focused on leadership, collaboration within and between schools, professionalization of teachers and school principals, and school culture. She was the course coordinator and one of the teachers of the Learning in Organizations course (GST, Utrecht University). In addition, she supervised interns and students writing their theses, was the internship coordinator, and worked as a Kennismakelaar for the Kennisrotonde of NRO. On 1 September 2022, she will start at the Lectorate Werken in Onderwijs at Hogeschool Utrecht.
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