Frank Cornelissen

Frank Cornelissen is a research fellow at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Cambridge (U.K.). Previously, he worked in the field of education as an elementary school teacher, consultant, lecturer, researcher and senior policy advisor of the Dutch Education Council. 

Frank received his Master of Science degree in Educational Science and Technology (cum laude - with honor) at the University of Twente. In 2007 his master's thesis on the supervision of teachers' action research has been awarded the national master's thesis award from the association for Human Resource Development in the Netherlands (NVO2). November 2011 he earned his PhD at the University of Eindhoven, the Netherlands with the dissertation 'Knowledge processes in school-university research networks'. Frank used a combination of qualitative and quantitative network methods to study the way that knowledge from teacher research is developed, shared and used in school-university research networks that are embedded in master's programs. He studied university- and school based master's programs in the Netherlands and Unites States. During this study he visited the University of California, San Diego and collaborated with Prof. dr. Alan Daly and Dr. Yi-Hwa Liou in a study of the school-based master's program of the High Tech High school in San Diego. 

At the Department of Education Studies, Frank is working on research funded by the Marie Curie Research Fellowship Award of the European Union. He is continuing his study into the dynamics and (knowledge) processes of innovative types of school-university research networks in the U.S. and U.K. In San Diego he is continuing his study in the High Tech High school. At Cambridge he will conduct a study in the context of the well established 'SUPER' network between the University of Cambridge and local partnership schools. Insights from his study are intended to provide new directions for establishing successful research partnerships between schools and universities in the context of master's programs of education.

Learn more about the studies of the international partnership network 'Sharing and Using of Research Findings in Networks' (SURFIN) or become a partner: www.surfin-education.com.