2002 – 2010
PhD research at the University of Melbourne, department of Political Science. Project title: The Biotechnology Debate: democracy in the face of intractable disagreement. From September 2005, I worked on this thesis at the University of Utrecht as a guest of the Ethics Institute (on a MIRS scholarship from Melbourne University and an IPRS scholarship from the Australian government)
1992 – 1999
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, Philosophy Department Specialization: Environmental Philosophy. Degree obtained: MA (cum laude)
1995 – 1996
University of Melbourne, exchange student Environmental Science and Philosophy (on a scholarship of Amsterdam University)
1991 -1992
Spanish courses in Sevilla and Barcelona, Spain
1985 – 1991
Christelijk Lyceum Zeist, Netherlands (secondary school)
1987 -1988
McMain Magnet High School, New Orleans, United States of America
Training
2010
Talentclass about presenting in public of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research
2009
Talentclasses about networking; creativity; and requesting subsidies of the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research
2009
Course in Microsoft Powerpoint and course in Excel
2006-2007
PhD seminars at the Ethics Institute, led by Professor Marcus Düwell
2-3/2006
PhD course of the Dutch Research School of Ethics: Liberalism and Communitarianism
2005-2007
PhD seminars of the Dutch Research School of Ethics (about publishing, time-management, case-study research, finding your own vision, and obstacles to writing a thesis)
2003-2004
PhD courses at the University of Melbourne (about writing a literature review, time-management, Endnotes, and making a Word Masterdocument)
2001-2002
Courses about tutoring and about ‘testing and evaluating exams’
Bernice Bovenkerk 