Britt Bakker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Britt received her Bachelor in Sociology at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). During her BA, she studied in Rabat, Morocco for 5 months at the Dutch Institute in Morocco. She continued her studies with an LLM degree in International Crimes and Criminology at the Faculty of Law, along with an MA in Theology and Religious Studies; Peace, Trauma and Religion at the Faculty of Theology at the VU. Her MA thesis “One Bed Two Beliefs” about interfaith marriages in the Netherlands was awarded the Sherazade Thesis Award from The Dutch Association of Psychologists.
During her studies, she worked as a student assistant for the Community Service Learning program at the VU, and for prof. Marianne Moyaert at the faculty of Theology and Religious Studies.
In addition, worked at the Diversity Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she conducted fieldwork for the project ‘More Collar at the Top’ which aims to further cultural diversity at top levels in large organizations in the Netherlands. Currently, she works for SERVUS (Servant Leadership Center for Research and Education) where she helps to organize leadership programs about cross-cultural dilemma reconciliation in organisations, demonstrating and teaching the key role of servant-leaders and cross-cultural competencies
In Lampeter Britt works on her research on interreligious marriages. She asks what can be learned from their experience about interreligious coexistence and how we can start a fruitful dialogue to unite different communities. In other words, what can we learn from these ‘on the ground experts’ about (interreligious) dilemma reconciliation?