She worked in primary education for ten years and has been teaching Dutch in the Primary Education Teacher Training program at HZ University of Applied Sciences since 2012.
Within the professorship Excellence and Innovation in Education, Hilde represents the literacy pillar. She is project manager of the Reading Literacy Research Workshop, in which teachers from the entire educational column in Zeeland work together in an investigative way to strengthen their reading education.
As a PhD student at Utrecht University, Hilde is also researching the possibilities of integrating reading education into science and technology lessons in upper elementary school. The focus is on teaching knowledge about the structure of texts.