Nienke Moolenaar

Nienke M. Moolenaar is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, San Diego on research funded by a Rubicon Award from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Her work focuses on the co-evolution of social networks and educational change. Drawing on complexity theory and social network theory, she uses longitudinal social network analysis and multilevel modeling to understand how elementary schools' social networks change during educational reform. Moreover, she aims to examine how this network change supports or constrains school improvement in terms of teachers' instructional practice and student achievement.