Dr Y.G.T. van Rossenberg (Yvonne)

Dr. Yvonne van Rossenberg (PhD 2014, University of Bath) is Associate Professor Human Resource Management at Radboud University’s Nijmegen School of Management. Yvonne van Rossenberg Her work centres on Sustainable Academia, which concerns how higher education systems produce knowledge, organise work and learning, distribute opportunities and resources, and shape their relationship with society. She studies how academia can develop in intellectually pluralistic, socially responsible, and sustainable ways for the people and communities it serves.

She examines higher education and academic knowledge production as organisational and institutional systems, focusing on governance, work, inequality, inclusion, sustainability, and societal impact, and how these shape knowledge, careers, and education.

A key focus of her work is how assumptions about reality and knowledge shape research and academic practice. She works on research philosophy, methodological innovation, and pluralistic, sustainable approaches to studying people and organisations.

Alongside this, she continues her research on workplace commitment, contributing to conceptual, theoretical, and methodological advances in understanding commitment in contemporary work contexts. She connects this work to broader societal issues, including workplace dignity, sustainable careers, learning communities, and the work experiences of refugees.

She seeks to create synergy between research, education, and societal impact. Her Comenius Teaching Fellowship project, ‘Stop worrying, start imagineering! Prospective thinking and career resilience skills towards student wellbeing’, integrates research on prospective thinking, future work identity, and sustainable careers into educational innovation that supports student wellbeing.

Overall, she contributes to an academia that is critically reflective, socially connected, and committed to equity, inclusion, and sustainability.