About the author 155 About the author Arend van Haaften (1990) studied sociology at Amsterdam University (BSc) and Erasmus University (MSc). In 2014, he graduated with honours on a master thesis in which he studied the involvement in, and ethnic heterogeneity of civil society organizations in Rotterdam, and their effects on intra- and interethnic relations of residents. For this thesis he was subsequently awarded with the Rotterdam Thesis Award 2015. After obtaining his master’s degree in sociology, Arend was enrolled in the research master program Sociology in Culture, Media and the Arts at Erasmus University for seven months, before starting his PhD project on the relationship between ethnicity and membership of Dutch amateur football clubs at Utrecht University School of Governance (USG) in 2015. During his seven-year stay with USG, Arend was a member of the faculty PhD council, chair of the PhD platform and member of the USG research board. He has presented his work to multiple sports organizations and practitioners, on various scientific conferences (European Sociological Association, European Association for the Sociology of Sport and the International Sociology of Sport Association) and in research articles in the European Journal for Sport and Society. In addition to his research, Arend has been actively involved in teaching. He has supervised many bachelor and master theses, taught a variety of courses in organizational science, sociology of sport and quantitative methods at both the graduate and undergraduate level, and has acted as a guest lecturer on numerous occasions. He is part of the team of students and two other colleagues that in 2022 invented a brand-new sport for popular science magazine Quest, called Qontrolball.
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