S. Blom (Stella)

Email:
s.m.blom@hva.nl
Werkadres:
Wibauthuis, Wibautstraat 3b, 1091 GH Amsterdam

Stella Blom has been affiliated as a guest researcher with the university-wide Higher Education, Research and Innovation (HERI) professorship since April 2019. She combines this position with her job as policy advisor for research at the Amsterdam University of the Arts, where she has been working since 2016.

Her research work is about the question how ‘arts’ and ‘research’ belong together. Stella is currently investigating how research has been playing a role in the development of the organisation identity of sectoral universities of the arts since 2000.

Until 2016, Stella spent almost 10 years working as a researcher and advisor for research and consultancy agency DSP Group in Amsterdam, where she completed dozens of projects for mainly the Central Government, provinces and municipalities, on wellbeing issues and spatial and cultural heritage topics. Prior to that, she worked for the Municipality of Amsterdam as project leader for the Social Development Service. Stella studied Social Geography and Sociology of Policy and Organisation at the University of Amsterdam.