Hannelore has a rich experience in the arts (organisation, teaching, research).
Before joining UHasselt in 2021, she worked as a lecturer at LUCA School of Arts for 18 years, as a manager in cultural organisations such as Mercatorfonds, Antwerpen93 and Artis Historia for 15 years and led the company arte&arte she founded in 1995.
In 2020 she was awarded a PhD in Organisation Studies at the University of Nottingham with the thesis "Materialising Careers: The Role of Artefacts in Career Making".
Research interests: careers, materiality, creative industries, qualitative research methods