Professor Eva Kyndt

Biography

Professor Eva Kyndt is internationally recognised as an expert in human resource development (HRD) with a specific focus on the intersection between learning and working. She received her PhD degree from KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium). She successfully finished her tenure track at KU Leuven before taking on an associate professorship at the University of Antwerp (Belgium).

She has extensive experience in attracting competitive research funding and supervising research projects and PhD students. She is the founding editor in Chief of Teaching and Teacher Education: Leadership and Professional Development and serves as an editorial board member of several high ranked peer-reviewed journals. She acted as the elected coordinator of the Special Interest Group Learning and Professional Development of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (2017-2021).

Specific focus areas include workplace learning, social networks in organisations, well-being at work, and sustainable careers. She has advised a diverse range of organisations on their HRD policy. She supports the product development of several evidence-based digital tools in the area of sustainable careers (www.mycareercompanion.com), hybrid work (www.umango.app), and well-being at work (www.readiness.org.au).