Philine van Overbeeke is a Junior Research Fellow at the Gradel Institute of Charity, New College, University of Oxford. She is a dedicated researcher and lecturer with over seven years of experience specializing in the non-profit sector and volunteer management. Philine holds a BSc in Business Administration and an MSc in Global Business & Sustainability from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM).

Philine earned her PhD in Management while working full-time at the Department of Business-Society Management at RSM. There, she taught courses in non-profit management, qualitative methods, and third-sector consultancy, while also engaging in research projects on non-profit management, volunteer management, and service-learning. Her dissertation focused on volunteer value creation, examining how the differences between volunteers and paid staff lead to varied management and governance outcomes. In her work, she places particular emphasis on third-party volunteering forms, including Service Learning, Corporate Volunteering, and Volunteer Tourism.

Philine is an active member of several professional associations, including ARNOVA, ISTR, ERNOP, and AOM. Her work has been published in esteemed journals such as Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Nonprofit Management & Leadership, and Voluntas. Committed to making academic research accessible to the public, Philine enjoys writing blogs and presenting master classes to nonprofit organizations across various sectors.

Publications

van Overbeeke, P.S.M., Koolen-Maas, S.A., Meijs, L.C.P.M., Brudney, J.L. (2021). You Shall (Not) Pass: Strategies for Third-Party Gatekeepers to Enhance Volunteer Inclusion. Voluntas, 33(1), 33–45. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-021-00384-0

van Overbeeke, P. S. M. & Ouacha, M. (2022). The value of diasporic cross-border philanthropy and voluntourism. In: Fowler, A, & K. Biekart (eds.). A Research Agenda for Civil Society (pp.173-187). Elgar books. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800378155.00021

Koolen-Maas, S.A., Meijs, L.C.P.M., van Overbeeke, P.S.M., & Brudney, J.L. (2022). Rethinking Volunteering as a Natural Resource: A Conceptual Typology. Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 52(1_suppl), 353-377. https://doi.org/10.1177/08997640221127947
*ERNOP Research Note (link)