Child of the faculty
Dean Thomas Vaessens: “After the recent personnel changes within the Faculty Board, we now choose not to immediately appoint a definitive successor to Iris van der Tuin as Vice Dean of Bachelor’s Education. Instead, I have found Bert willing to join us ad interim. Bert is an experienced board member from within our own community, having previously held the roles of Director of Education and Vice Dean, among others, within the Faculty. In the coming period, we can put his knowledge and experience to good use.”
Bert van den Brink: “I have always remained a child of this faculty and was pleasantly surprised by Thomas’s question. It is not an easy time for higher education and the humanities. I look forward to working with the departments and Faculty Board to find answers that will make studying and teaching in the humanities attractive, even under changing circumstances.”
Alongside his new role at the Faculty of Humanities, Bert will continue to teach at UCR and to work as part of the Utrecht University CHARM-EU team.