Early-Life Conditions

Susan Ketner
Susan Ketner has served as professor of Comprehensive Approach to Child Abuse at Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen as of 1 March 2019. Her specific background as a researcher is in diversity, parental support and parenthood. She is keen on using her professorship to improve parental support in families where parents face various types of pressure and where concerns over safety exist. In doing so, she prefers to link up research, education, policy and practice.

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Viola Angelini
Viola Angelini is Full Professor in the Economics of Household Behaviour and Aletta Jacobs Chair at the Department of Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance and coordinator of the theme Justice of the Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health, focusing on socio-economic inequalities in health. In her research, she tries to understand what drives differences in individual physical, mental and financial well-being in adulthood and at older ages by taking a life-cycle perspective and using large scale individual-level data, both from survey and administrative sources. She maintains a large network of national and international collaborations: she is research fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO), the Network for Studies on Pensions, Ageing and Retirement (Netspar), the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), the Health Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) of the University of York and the Center for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies (CeRP) of the University of Turin. She holds a joint Ph.D. in Economics from the Universities of York and Padua.

Margot Bochane
My dream is for every child to develop optimal communication skills. I contribute to this dream via lectures and research. I work at Hanze University of Applied Sciences, where I am teaching in the program of speech and language pathology in the School of Health Care Studies. Since 2021, I am also teaching in the Bachelor and the international Research Master (EMCL+) of Linguistics at the RUG. I have a PhD in Medical Sciences – Public Health Research.

Vera Heininga
Vera Heininga is an Assistant Professor Youth Studies. Her research draws together psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and pedagogy with the aim to unravel the psychosocial mechanisms of resilience in youth. Using an idiographic approach (i.e., diary studies), she investigates to what extent youth’s resilience - and the intergenerational transmission thereof - is shaped by contextual factors such as positive emotions, wellbeing and social relationships.