Silke Hassreiter is a researcher and lecturer in research methodology and media production for the Bachelor programme International Media and Entertainment Management (BA) and the Master Programme Media Innovation at Breda University of Applied Sciences. She is skilled, knowledgeable and experienced especially in qualitative research methods, ethnography and action research. Her main research interests are in (1) Virtual Reality (VR) and Character Identification and the development of VR products for Public Awareness Raising (2) LGBT gender identities and their lived experiences transgressing socio-cultural boundaries. Before joining BUas in 2007 Silke worked as a TV Content Editor, Cinematographer and Video Editor for TV productions worldwide for 13 years. Currently she is next to her full time position teaching at BUas also an external PhD student at Erasmus University Rotterdam, exploring together with femme 'new normal' lesbian mothers living in The Netherlands their lived experiences when transgressing socio-cultural boundaries of motherhood and lesbianism.