Lode Vermeersch is a research manager at HIVA (Research Institute for Work and Society of the University of Leuven). He holds a PhD in Educational Sciences and an advanced master’s degree in Cultural Studies. Lode joined HIVA in March 2007. During the past fifteen years Lode was involved in numerous research projects. Most of his research publications are in the field of lifelong learning and non-formal adult education, arts and cultural education, museum education, cultural theory and cultural policy, literacy (visual literacy, cultural literacy, multiliteracies, low-literacy, etc.). He is currently leading several research projects on in-school and out-of-school arts education.