Gender

Susanne Täuber
Susanne Täuber is an expert in moral motivation and defensive inaction. As a social psychologist working in Economics and Business, her research is interdisciplinary and spans questions of inequality, justice, trust, polarization, identity, and conflict. Täuber applies her research to understand the discrepancy between policy and actual progress, for instance with respect to health disparities between groups with low and high socio-economic status. In an NWO-funded project, Täuber demonstrated how the moralization of health polarizes society. She works with many organziations and the municipality in projects such as the "Healthy Livingroom".

Agnieszka Postepska
I am an Assistant Professor in the Economics, Econometrics and Finance Department at the University of Groningen. My main research interests lie in the field of applied microeconomics. In particular, I am interested in labor, migration, development and education economics. My current research focuses on immigrants in the US, with a focus on human capital transmission, occupational networks and relative position of immigrant groups on the labor market as well as labor force participation of women in the Netherlands. With respect to public health, I am interested in the interplay of health and the labor market. In particular I'm interested in how flexible employment forms mediate the adverse effects of health on labor market outcomes.

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.

Laura Baams
Laura Baams is an Assistant Professor in the Youth Studies Research Group, in Pedagogy and Educational Sciences. Overall, her research addresses health disparities among LGBTQ youth, and how these can be exacerbated or diminished by social environmental factors.

Mónica López López
Mónica López López is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences. For the last 16 years, Mónica has been actively seeking a way of improving child and family welfare systems through research on decision-making, with a special interest in disparities in decision-making processes. In her research, Mónica focuses on the voice of the service users, children and families, as a powerful instrument to develop better services. Her recent projects include Hestia, a European funded project comparing policies and practices of child protection in England, Germany and the Netherlands (NORFACE, H2020); project Audre on the wellbeing and resilience of LGBTQIA+ young people in out-of-home care (FWOS); and Brighter Future on the educational experiences of children in care and adopted (Erasmus+). Mónica has been involved in transferring scientific knowledge through her teaching at the international master Youth Society and Policy, training professionals, and developing international research networks in Europe and Latin America. She is a board member of EUSARF (European Scientific Association on Residential and Family Care for Children and Adolescents), and iaOBERfcs (International Association for Outcome-based Evaluation and Research on Family and Children’s Services).

Pelin Gül
As a psychological scientist, Pelin Gül explores the psychological and cultural foundations of gender relations and sexism. Her research is directed to finding new ways of addressing gender inequalities by offering researchers, practitioners and the general public a more nuanced understanding of why sexist beliefs and female purity norms persist and continue to restrict women’s health, rights and opportunities in and outside of the home. She takes a combined nature and nurture perspectives in her empirical pursuit, employing diverse methods from experiments, surveys, observations, and interviews.

Currently, for the past three years, she has been working as an Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen’s interdisciplinary faculty, Campus Fryslan in Leeuwarden, where her passion for interdisciplinary education and research continues to shape the field of psychology of culture and gender relations.  She has developed and coordinate the Psychology of Culture and Diversity course in the Global Responsibility and Leadership Bachelor program. Additionally, she serves as the chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee, and a member of the board of the University College Fryslan.