Qualitative Methods

Gerdien Regts
I am a postdoc researcher at the Faculty of Economics and Business, department Operations. My research interests are in the field of Healthcare Management and include regional healthcare networks, value-based healthcare, and evaluating the hospitalist, a new medical function in Dutch hospitals. Currently, I'm involved in a project in which we investigate the way in which value-based healthcare in regional oncology networks facilitates improvement of healthcare delivery.

Sander van Lanen
I am an urban geographer working on the intersections of economy and culture. My research focuses on the everyday consequences of poverty, concentrated deprivation, and the political economy of everyday life. In other words, how political decisions and economic transformation transform everyday practices like work, mobility and leisure. This includes considerations of work, health, housing, social life and many more.

Extra keywords: Social inclusion/exclusion

Tess Osborne
Tess Osborne is a social geographer with a focus in two connecting areas: first, exploring the application of technology as a research tool and in everyday life, including biosensing, digital worlds, and GIS; second, examining questions around embodiment and health and wellbeing, particularly how these relate to the built environment. She is currently working on the Meaningful Mobility project to develop and implement new approaches to enhance research of mobility and health in later life.

Albert Boonstra
Albert Boonstra is a full professor of Information Management at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. His research interests include the implementation of advanced information technologies in healthcare environments, especially the socio-political dimensions. He is interested in the transformative potential of digital technologies in healthcare, including eHealth, Internet of Things, Electronic Health Records and Telecare. He presented his work at international conferences and is author of three books and more than 60 international journal articles. He is senior editor of Information Systems Journal. He is research fellow of research school SOM and of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health.

Extra keyword: Implementation

Louise Meijering
Louise is associate professor in Health Geography and is leading a research programme on Well-being, mobility and attachment to place in later life. Her key contributions to the field have been on the outdoor mobility of older adults; place and identity after stroke; and the multi-dimensionality of well-being in later life. Her work is interdisciplinary, at the intersection of geography, gerontology and public health. Currently, she is leading an ERC-funded project called Meaningful Mobility, in which she aims to develop a novel approach to in- and outdoor movement in later life, in the Netherlands, United Kingdom and India.

Hinke Haisma
Hinke holds a position as professor in Child Nutrition and Population Health at the Population Research Centre (PRC), at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She has a background (MSc) in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University (1992), and a PhD in Medical Sciences from the University of Groningen (2004). She was a nutrition officer at the IAEA from 1995 to 1998, and was thereafter employed by WHO and seconded to the Federal University in Pelotas, Brazil (until 2002). Since 2009 she is employed at the PRC in Groningen, where she leads the research line Global Health & Development.

Her research focuses on people's capabilities in relation to child health and nutrition across the globe. In her research, she applies theories from various disciplines (social and behavioural sciences, evolutionary biology), and applies both quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection and analysis including ethnographic methods.

Her countries of study are Tanzania, India, Brazil, and the Netherlands.

Extra keyword: Child Nutrition

Lucy Avraamidou
Lucy Avraamidou is the Director of the Institute for Science Education and Communication. She holds a PhD in Science Education from the Pennsylvania State University in the USA. Prior to her appointment at the University of Groningen (2016), she worked at the University of Nicosia in Cyprus and the Center of Informal Learning and Schools at King's College London. Her research is associated with theoretical and empirical explorations of what it means to widen and diversify STEM participation in school and out-of-school settings through the lens of intersectionality. At the heart of the account of her work is an exploration of underrepresented groups' identity trajectories and negotiations with the use of narrative and life-history methods.

Peter Meister Broekema
Peter Meister Broekema is senior researcher at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences and is also working on his dissertation at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen. In his research he is focusing on the relationship between co-creation and social innovation. By combining quantitative and qualitative research, he tries to disentangle the complex interactions between different types of partners in large multidisciplinary international projects. Besides that, he is also driven by a desire to ensure and stimulate the impact from research to society. At the moment he is working on a ZonMW funded project on Healthy Environments and three EU funded projects on the intersection between co-creation and social innovation.

Margreet Luinge
Margreet Luinge, PhD, RD is Professor of Language Function & Healthy Ageing. Her research focuses on language development, prevention developmental language disorders in children and delaying language degeneration in elderly. In 2002 she obtained her degree in neurolinguistics at the University of Groningen. In 2005 she obtained her doctorate for the development of the language screening instrument Speech and Language Standards Primary (SNEL) at the Medical Sciences of the University of Groningen, for which she received two prizes. Margreet is a member of the national science council of the Dutch Association for Speech Therapy and Phoniatrics.

Ingeborg van der Meulen
Ingeborg van der Meulen, PhD, RN, is postdoc researcher and teacher within the professorship Nursing Diagnosis at the School of Nursing, the Hanze University of Applied Science in Groningen and at the Department of Critical Care, University Medical Center Groningen. Together with her colleagues, she works on the Follow-up Intensive Care Studies (FICS) which focus on the long-term impact of an ICU admission for ICU survivors and their family members. The goal is to identify patients and family members who are at high risk of long-term impaired physical, psychological, spiritual and social well-being. In addition, we explore which interventions can be effective to support ICU survivors and their family members in regaining their quality of life after ICU admission. Key to the research is that we work with an interdisciplinary team of nurses, medical doctors, health care chaplain, students and PhD-students. In addition, research and education is combined to improve clinical outcome for patients and their family members. Divers research designs are used, for example systematic literature review, qualitative research with storytelling or semi structured interviews and cohort studies.

Jeanet Landsman
Dr. J.A (Jeanet) Landsman is head of the section Applied Health Research (Toegepast Gezondheids Onderzoek) of the department of Health Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen. Her dissertation (2005) was titled ‘Building an effective short health promotion intervention; theory driven development, implementation and evaluation of a body awareness program for chronic a-specific psychosomatic symptoms’.

Dr. Landsman’s research interests’ societal participation and prevention of illness of vulnerable groups in society, for instance individuals with autism with or without an intellectual disability, chronic pain patients, patients with Long-COVID, people who are at risk for developing or have NCD’s, individuals who have or are at risk for a burn out and older people with low health literacy.

Jeanet has a background in Physiotherapy and Movement Sciences, and she is an expert in participatory action research and implementation research. She organizes and collaborates in learning communities with citizens, (healthcare-) professionals, scientific researchers, NGOs and government organizations. She managed several international and national research projects, funded by for instance EU or ZonMw and is daily supervisor and co-promotor of several PhD-students. One project led to the development of Werk Web Autisme for people with autism to find and keep work and another project about balancing sensory processing for people with autism and an intellectual disability. She is also working on a EU-funded project about Scaling Up NCD-Interventions in South East Asia.

Marline Lisette Wilders
Marline Lisette Wilders is Assistant Professor in Arts in Society at University College Groningen and the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at The Faculty of Arts. She specialises in empirical research methods, more specific in audience and reception research, studying aesthetic experiences in relationship to the experience of space and place. In 2013 she received a 2-years Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for the project From Working Space to Theatre Space: the user perspective, on the effects of adaptive reuse of industrial heritage sites for the functioning of the performing arts and built industrial heritage in society. A second post-doc period concerned the uses and re-uses of different types of heritage through the study of jazz and improvised music festivals, within the project Cultural Heritage and Improvised Music in European Festivals (CHIME), which was funded by the European Union. Currently she is second year coordinator of the Research Master Cultural Leadership where she also teaches research methods for Social Sciences and Humanities. At UCG she teaches Artivism, Visual and Arts Based Methods and gives project-based education. For the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health she teaches in the interdisciplinary minor More Healthy Years since the start of this minor, which she also helped to develop. In 2022 she will start as Community of Expertise Leader Interdisciplinary teaching for employability, lifelong learning and citizenship for the Teaching Academy Groningen. Moreover she is part of the recently started Enlight Quali co-ordination team of lecturers in qualitative research.

Extra Keyword: Arts based methods and health

Job van 't Veer
Dr. Job van 't Veer is professor Digital Innovation in Healthcare at the NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences. As a researcher, he is always focused on the social participation of vulnerable groups, such as people with mental illness, mild intellectual disorders, and dementia. 

Since 2012, he has focused on digital innovation in healthcare and welfare. Within all research projects, the emphasis is on a design-research approach: how can you, together with clients, residents, and professionals, innovatively and possibly digitally, improve healthcare and welfare? Apart from supervising PhD-students in their design research projects, he is main author of the book ‘Ontwerpen voor Zorg en Welzijn’ (Design for Healthcare & Social Work), which is used in about 50 bachelor-programs in Dutch/Belgian Universities of Applied Sciences.

Job van ‘t Veer is co-program leader of SIA SPRONG FAITH research, a network of more than 40 healthcare organizations and companies that generates and shares knowledge on frailty. He is associated in many (Northern) networks and projects that involve the topic of health technology, like HEALTHNoord, HTRIC, AndersWerkenindeZorg, TZA Drenthe, NWA eHealth Junior, Bridge2Health, PIT and MEE Lab.