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You also learn a lot from your students.

Ewout is lecturer and member of the management team at the Academy for Leisure

Life before Breda University of Applied Sciences

Ewout is a doctorandus (title granted to university graduates in the Netherlands) in Economics and Leisure Studies. He started in Marketeer & Management Support at KRAS in 2000 and after that he worked at Cubiss for almost six years. He continued his career at Vrijetijdshuis Brabant (organisation aimed at marketing and promoting the leisure sector in Brabant) as a manager of Knowledge and Projects until 2014. 

As we are an independent and small institute, there is a greater sense of uniqueness.’

Ewout Sanders

Lecturer and member of the management team at the Academy for Leisure

Journey at BUas

Ewout had already given a few guest lectures at BUas and also delivered sector presentations within the industry. Because he enjoyed this so much, he thought about getting a teaching qualification. Through an acquaintance from the industry who works at BUas, he started working as a substitute for sick staff. By now Ewout has worked as a lecturer for almost seven years and he has performed many different roles within the academy. ‘Someone who doesn’t teach may think that you stand still and that you always teach the same classes, but not a single year of teaching has been the same so far.’ He worked as chair of the research competency group, coordinator of the study track Leisure Management and of the main-phase team. Four-and-a-half years ago he joined the management team. In addition, he teaches about research, leisure, stakeholder management and he supervises graduate students. 

Working at BUas 

‘As we are an independent and small institute, there is a greater sense of uniqueness.’ There’s also a lot of freedom within the organisation, Ewout adds. There is plenty of room for ideas and new things, BUas is a great place to work if you are the entrepreneurial type. ‘What’s wonderful about teaching, is that you contribute to the development of young professionals. You try to teach them something valuable. On the other hand, education is not a one-way process. You also learn a lot from your students.’