Andries van Helden is a Guest Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics.

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Expertise

• Morphosyntax, especially in Slavic
• The reception of linguistic theories
• History of East European linguistics
• The humanities and politics
• Higher education and science policy

(Academic) positions

• 2005-present: Associate researcher
• 2000-2005: Inspector of Higher Education
• 1999-2000: General Secretary of the Netherlands National Commission for UNESCO
• 1995-1999: Deputy Permanent Delegate of the Netherlands to UNESCO
• 1994-1995: Secretary of the Working Party on the Future of the Humanities (“Commissie-Vonhoff”)
• 1991-1994: Senior Researcher at the National Advisory Body on Education Policy (Adviesraad voor het Onderwijs, ARO)
• 1987-1991: Deputy Head of the Policy Division for Cultural, Social and Behavioural Sciences at the Ministry of Education and Science
• 1982-1987: Policy advisor on Higher Education and Research at the Ministry of Education and Science
• 1981-1995: Lecturer in Russian at Eindhoven University of Technology and (1984-1986) Delft University of Technology
• 1981-1982: Manager of the language laboratory and lecturer in applied linguistics and Dutch as a second language at Eindhoven University of Technology
• 1978-1980: Research assistant at Leiden University
• Earlier occupations include teaching Russian in various adult education institutions, linguistic duties for the military, translation and bibliographic work at Leiden University Library.

Education

• 1993: PhD in linguistics ( Leiden University)
• 1973: MA in Slavic languages and literature (Leiden University)

Publications