Hannah J. Visser is a scholar and practitioner specializing in the intersection of existential questions, education, and (religious) diversity. She completed her PhD, titled ‘The Impact of Interfaith Learning’, at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she examined the objectives, processes, and outcomes of interfaith learning and explored how evaluations can do justice to the complex realities of such initiatives. In addition to her research, she has facilitated and trained (interfaith) dialogue projects, coordinated student-wellbeing initiatives and taught courses on storytelling, dialogical skills, case study analysis, and interreligious studies. Hannah currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam’s Department of Child Development and Education, where she is investigating how teacher educators in social studies develop their pedagogical content knowledge to foster ethical reasoning in classroom dialogues. She also works as a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Religion and Theology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, exploring the relationship between existential questions and societal challenges in higher education and serving as a facilitator for the Emoena interfaith leadership programme.

Research methods

• Qualitative research
• Interviews
• Reflection report analysis
• Systematic reviews
• Interdisciplinary theoretical analysis

Current research projects

As a postdoctoral researcher at UvA, Hannah is studying how teacher educators in social studies develop their pedagogical content knowledge about stimulating students’ ethical reasoning in classroom dialogues.