Sarah is a research assistant at the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She is involved in the transdisciplinary research ‘Adolescents as agents of change’. This research focusses on how youth can positively contribute to society, what effect it has on them and in what ways society can support them in doing so. In this position, she works closely with several societal partners and she is involved in various aspects of the research, including the participant recruitment, data collection and data processing.

Sarah obtained a bachelor’s degree in pedagogical sciences and a master’s degree in Youth Development and Social Change at Utrecht University. During her studies she specialised in working interdisciplinary and learned how to operate as a bridgebuilder between science and practice, to work on societal problems regarding youth.