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Team

The Social Sciences Health and Well-being centre of expertise was established in 2020 to connect researchers from the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences who share an interest in understanding the social-behavioral and institutional underpinnings of leading a healthy, socially connected, cognitively sharp, and active life across the lifespan. The center focuses on three themes: health in social context and policy development, healthy aging, and health interventions.

Center Director

Lisette van der Meer, assistant professor Clinical & Developmental Neuropsychology, board member of Social Sciences Health and Well-being.

Lisette is interested in (social) cognitive functioning and identity development in people with mental health problems (mostly psychotic disorders). Her research varies from fundamental studies into underlying psychological mechanisms to more applied projects evaluating cognitive rehabilitation programs in clinical practice. She additionally works as a lead researcher at the department of psychiatric rehabilitation at Lentis Psychiatric Institute to sustain the connection between research, education and clinical practice. More info is available at the website of her research group GRIP (Group for Research and Innovation in Psychiatry)

Board

Tina Kretschmer, adjunct professor in Pedagogy and Educational Science, board member of Social Sciences Health and Well-being.

Susanne Scheibe, professor in Organizational Psychology, board member Social Sciences Health and Well-being.

Susanne Scheibe holds the chair for “Lifespan development and organizational behavior’. She is interested in how emotional competencies and daily emotion/stress dynamics change across adulthood and how age-related changes affect people in work settings. She combines experimental, longitudinal and experience-sampling methods to understand the strengths and vulnerabilities that different age groups bring to the workplace and how work experiences in turn impact people’s emotional development over time.

Bertus Jeronimus, assistant professor in Developmental Psychology, board member Social Sciences Health and Well-being.

Bertus studies individual differences in personality and happiness and their lifespan trajectories and links to affect/emotion/mood dynamics (internalizing problems) and the environment in which one lives and grows, especially social networks, daily activities, adverse events, and culture. Currently he works on the interaction between personal strengths and vulnerabilities in his Veni project on happy neurotics and the studies HowNutsAreTheDutch and Ieder Kind Is Anders.

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