Floor Basten

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Bio

Floor Basten (PhD.) is the founder of [campus]OrléoN, a network that everybody who cares about research amidst society is invited to join.

You can ask Floor for
- narrative research, especially for reconstructing collective stories (organizations, urban areas, society at large) with an eye on mobilizing active commitment for change
- transdisciplinary research and the creation of research communities with an aim for cocreation of knowledge
- courses on the afore-mentioned research strategies
- supervision of research based on the afore-mentioned strategies

Curriculum Vitae
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In 1994, Floor finished her studies French Language & Literature (with honors) and Social Sciences at the University of Nijmegen. While working in Nijmegen at the Academic School for Computing Sciences she wrote, as an external PhD. candidate, a thesis about educational innovations in the Nijmegen Business School. She developed a research strategy which allowed her to combine methods for data collection, analysis and interpretation from both her studies. In 2000, she was awarded her PhD. That same year she started a postdoctoral research into active citizenship, a project she finished in 2002.

After a long travel throughout Latin America, she founded her research agency OrléoN in 2003. OrléoN is an acronym for the Dutch phrase “Organisaties leren Onderzoeken”. In English this means both “Learning Organizations to Research” and “Learning to Research Organizations”. For clients she conducted research into the language of spatial emotions, the combat of poverty, educational innovation, soil sanitation, urban development, provision of social services and many other themes. The threat running through her work is narrative analysis, a strategy she developed for her PhD. thesis and refines since. With her analysis, she identifies patterns in the narrative behaviors of groups.
In 2010, together with dr. Anneke Sools, she founded the Dutch Network for Narrative Research.

Academic publications
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Floor frequently publishes about her research. Some of her recent articles/chapters are:
- Basten (2012) Through the looking glass. A narrative of non change, in: Educational Action Research, Vol 20 No. 1 (95-111)
- Basten (2011) Bricolage and the late modern academic habitus of external PhD. students, paper for the conference First International Conference on Emerging Paradigms in Business and Social Studies Dubai, November 22-24, 2011 (won the best paper award)
- Basten (2011) Metaphor in Action in an Academic Battlefield, in: Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Special Issue Article, 28 (150-159)
- Basten (2011) Narrating around, in: Journal of Management Development, 30, 3 (260-269)
- Basten (2011) Microstructures as Spaces for Participatory Innovation, in: Buur (ed) PINC 2011: Participatory Innovation Conference Proceedings, University of Southern Denmark, 13th - 15th January 2011 (130-136)
- Basten (2010) Researching Publics, in: In 't Veld (ed.) Knowledge Democracy – Consequences for Science, Politics and Media, Heidelberg: Springer

In Dutch:
- Basten (2011) De status aparte van buitenpromovendi, in: Management en Consulting, 2, p. 34-37)
- Basten (2010) Buitenpromovendi en het onderzoekend vermogen van de samenleving, rapportage van het onderzoek uitgevoerd door [campus]OrléoN
- Basten (2010) Civiele bestuurskunde, in: Van der Heijden (red.) Combineer wat je hebt. Duurzaamheid door het verbinden van maatschappelijke functies, Academische Uitgeverij Eburon

For a full overview of her writing, please go to www.orleon.nl/producten.

You can contact Floor via floorbasten@orleon.nl.

Website

http://www.orleon.nl

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http://www.linkedin.com/in/floorbasten

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