2021 - Present Associate professor at the Department of Education

Coordinator of the research master Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction

2018 - 2021 Assistant professor at the Department of Education

2017 – 2018 Assistant professor at ICLON, Leiden University

Main activities: conducting and supervising research on multiple interest development across contexts and educational consultancy for the university, including developing the Teaching and Learning Guide. Daily supersivor in five PhD trajectories.

2015 - 2017 Assistant professor at the Department of Education, Utrecht University

2013 - 2015 Post-doctoral researcher and educational consultant at the Centre for Teaching and Learning, Utrecht University.

2008 – 2013 PhD-candidate at the department of Education, Utrecht University.

The PhD project Larike worked on part-time (0.8 fte) is called Research-based teacher education, supervised by professor Jan Vermunt, dr. Paulien Meijer and dr. Bob Koster. The project revolves around the interplay between teacher education pedagogies and the nature of student teacher learning and development. By means of a formative intervention the research aims to increase our understanding of how student teachers’ meaning-oriented learning and deliberate practice can be stimulated in dual teacher education programs. In light of this aim, affordances of different research designs and methodologies has been explored. 

2010 – 2013 Junior assistant professor Department of Education, Utrecht University 

Larike has taught various courses in the teacher education program, among which General Pedagogy and Practice-Based Research. She has supervised master students’ practice-based research projects, one of which won the price for the best thesis as well as research master students final thesis. She has collaborated in designing, implementing and evaluating innovations in the teacher education program, including the electronic portfolio, the practice-based research curriculum and the “School Adoption” (intensive internship) project. She completed her Basis Kwalificatie Onderwijs (BKO; Basis teacher qualification) in 2013.

2006 – 2008 Research master Educational Sciences: Learning in Interaction (2 year degree) at the Graduate School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Utrecht University

MSc cum laude. Thesis: The Explication of Quality Standards in Self-Evaluation

2002 – 2005 Bachelor at University College Maastricht (3 year degree) at Maastricht University

BA summa cum laude. Thesis: The learning in problem-based learning (PBL): a comparison of effects