Jasper Maas is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Child and Education Studies at Leiden University. He holds a PhD in the relationship between social support and teachers’ well-being.

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Jasper Maas is a lecturer and researcher at the Institute of Child and Education Studies at Leiden University. He holds a PhD in the relationship between social support and teachers’ well-being.

Research

Teachers in primary and secondary education have long faced high workloads, contributing to teacher shortages and burnout. Maas’s research explores factors that influence teachers’ motivation, stress levels, and overall well-being. His focus is on how school leadership and colleagues can provide meaningful support and how social support structures within schools can be strengthened.

Teaching

Maas teaches on the BSc and MSc in Child and Education Studies. His teaching centres on research skills, including courses such as Research Practicum, Practice of Empirical Research, Academic Writing, and supervision of master’s theses.

Short CV

Maas earned his PhD with the dissertation Explanatory Pathways of the Association Between Receiving Social Support and Teachers’ Well-being (2023), supervised by Prof. Dr Urte Scholz at the University of Zurich. He holds a BSc and MSc in Sociology and a teaching qualification in Social Studies and Social Sciences (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam). Before moving into academia, he taught at pre-vocational (VMBO), senior general secondary (HAVO), and pre-university (VWO) levels.

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Monday to Friday. 

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