Brent Sandtke is a lecturer in the Bachelor's program in Social Geography and Planning and a research assistant for the Following Frontiers of the Forest City and Changing Lanes Together projects. His research interests and experience lie in the qualitative social sciences, with an emphasis on Social Impact Assessment (SIA), vulnerable groups, innovation, inclusive and sustainable development, and gender equality. 

During his Bachelor's degree in History at Erasmus University Rotterdam, he focused on cultural/social history and wrote a thesis on the presence of colonial language in Dutch written media at the end of the 20th century, specifically in the case of the Rwandan genocide of 1994. During this time, he also completed an LDE minor (Leiden University, Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam) on Economical Innovations. This included a three-month field study at the University of Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia, on the sustainability and assumptions regarding the palm oil industry.

In 2022, he began his Master's program in International Development Studies at Utrecht University, which included coursework and an international field study where he collected data for his master's thesis, shifting his focus to Impact Assessment Research. The fieldwork took place in Jakarta, Indonesia, to collect data for a study on Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA), which aims to find ways to make this process more inclusive and mitigate the most severe impacts on vulnerable groups such as women and migrants. 

Brent holds a BA in Modern Societal History (graduated in 2021) from Erasmus University Rotterdam and an MSc in International Development Studies (graduated in 2023) from Utrecht University.