2015 - 2018

Senior lecturer at the Utrecht School of Journalism + senior editor of the Clingendael Spectator

2014

Bram graduated from the MA International Relations in Historical Perspective at the Utrecht University cum laude. His thesis on Muslim foreign fighters can be found here and has also been included in the Foreign Fighters of Terrorism Bibliography of the Terrorism Research Initiative.

2013

Guest lecturer in courses on internial reporting and freelance journalism. Student at the Utrecht University in the master programme International Relations in Historical Perspective. Papers written for this study were published in Dutch media.

2012

Guest lecturer at Utrecht School of Journalism and the international Europe in the World programme. Combined with freelance journalism.

Bram travelled to Israel to write different stories for Dutch national newspapers and magazines. He also started as a guest lecturer at the

2010

Assignments for different Dutch magazines and newspapers. Bram also attended a masterclass for freelance journalists organised by the Academy of the Dutch journalist union NVJ.

2009

In November 2009 Bram travelled from the West to the East of Turkey to investigate the attitudes towards EU accession, ten years after the country was accepted as a candidate member to the EU.

Earlier in the years he worked as a freelance journalist for titles such as: the Belgian news magazine Knack, the Spanish daily El Mundo, De Journalist, Psy, Psy.nl, Provincies, Tijdschrift Kindermishandeling, Schrijf-Schrijf, Kris Kras design. In July Bram was chosen as the Dutch winner of the European Young Journalist Award. In October, the European Commission awarded him with the For Diversity Against Discrimination Journalist Award.

2008

October-November: Working in Brussels at Knack magazine as part of a Dutch-Flemish exchange programme for journalists.
As a freelance journalist stories published in Het Parool, De Gelderlander, De Stentor, De Humanist, IS en MO (be), VPRO Gids, GPD, Psy, De Psychiater, Provincies, Berlinske (dk) and El Mundo (es).

2007

Project on five Eastern European border zones: Norway-Russia, Lithuania-Kaliningrad, Belarus-Poland, Ukraine-Slovakia and Moldova-Romania. A series of reportages was published in the Dutch newspaper De Pers and the Belgian daily De Tijd.
As a freelance journalist contributions for several Dutch magazines, websites and newspapers like Aware Magazine, Brabants Dagblad, Gelderlander, Psy, El Mundo, Telegraaf, Over Vroeger, Bouw & Uitvoering, Taste! and Salomé as well as the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

2005-2007

Staff reporter at Psy, the Dutch magazine on mental health and addiction, for a period of two years.

2003-2004

For two years staff journalist at the multimedia department of the Dutch news agency ANP.
Work trip to Boston, Washington, Philadelphia and New York at the end of 2004.
As a freelance journalist publications in Dutch magazines Reload, Trajectum, Tijdschrift voor Verzorging en Beheer.

2002-2003

Staff reporter for half a year at the South-African newspapers Cape Times and Cape Argus. Bram worked as a ‘junior professional’ as part of the media programme of Dutch ngo NIZA.
Publications in Dutch magazines Zuidelijk Afrika, Katholiek Nieuwsblad and De Humanist

2002

Webeditor at the website of Dutch trade union FNV Bondgenoten during three months
Webeditor at Dutch news site NU.nl during four months.
Publications in Dutch newspapers Het Parool and Spits and magazines like De Groene Amsterdammer and Wordt Vervolgd.

2001

Work trip to Nicaragua, El Salvador, Argentina, Uruguay en Chile, resulting in several publications.
Working as a stringer/correspondent for supplement Cronica of Spanish newspaper El Mundo
Webeditor at newswebsite EN.nl (no longer existing).

2000-2001

Masterclass in European Journalism: Europe in the World. A one year course partly in Utrecht and partly in Århus, Denmark. Study trips to the European Commision, International Court and the German Ruhr area. Final exam in Ukraine leading to publications in Dutch and Danish newspapers. Bram graduated cum laude.

1996-2000

School of Journalism, Utrecht. Internships at Dutch daily De Gelderlander and as a music journalist at VPRO 3voor12. Study trips to Mexico and Ukraine.