Dr Claire van Teunenbroek is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Philanthropic Studies at VU University Amsterdam and data manager at Geven in Nederland. She also gives workshops on scientific communication for practitioners. She specialises in crowdfunding, philanthropy, fundraising, prosocial behaviour and social influences.

She obtained her PhD from the Department of Organisational Sciences and the Centre for Philanthropic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She researched how online donation behaviour (crowdfunding) is influenced by the behaviour of others (i.e. social information). To what extent are people influenced by the donation behaviour of others? This was prompted by the finding that the cultural sector could use a helping hand when it comes to fundraising. She conducted various experiments, including in collaboration with the Dutch crowdfunding platform Voordekunst.

As a postdoctoral researcher, Claire has spent the past years researching giving among Dutch households, with a specific focus on generational effects on giving. She is currently looking at giving and fundraising in the cultural sector in the Netherlands. Is the cultural sector in the Netherlands increasingly raising funds from private sources? Is the cultural sector entrepreneurial or heavily dependent on government subsidies? She is also looking at giving behaviour in an online context, specifically crowdfunding. Crowdfunding is becoming increasingly popular as a means of financing arts and cultural projects. Who donates via crowdfunding and what do they donate to? She also works as a lecturer in the Sociology department of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Together with her students, she is investigating how crowdfunding can be used to financially support the cultural sector. She joined the Science, Business and Innovation department of the Faculty of Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.