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• 2023 Chair of the ZonMw Arbeid en Zorg Commitee. The aim of this program is to bundle knowledge about support and possible interventions aimed at job retention during and after cancer for workers, employers and practitioners, to make it more accessible and to stimulate utilization. This is to optimize the return to work process during or after cancer.

• 2022 Chair of the ZonMw Mental Vitality Committee. The aim of this program is to strengthen the mental vitality of workers. To this end, subsidies are granted for the deployment and evaluation of innovative interventions at the level of labor organizations.

• 2022 Chair of Program Advisory Committee of AKC.  The program advisory committee consists of labor experts, external experts from universities, colleges and research institutes, and representatives of policy authorities. The committee provides advice aimed at decision-making about the knowledge agenda, the research design and which research institution or researcher will carry out the project.

• 2022 Member of the committee that assesses applications for the Expedition Scheme of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. The aim of the Expedition Scheme is firstly to stimulate a social movement in which interventions, working methods and methods in the field of sustainable employability (DI) and lifelong development (LLO) are applied more often, better and faster. And secondly, to (further) develop practical knowledge and scientific knowledge and make these widely applicable.

• 2021- (Vice-)chair of the ZonMW Improvement Reintegration Second Track Committee. This program contributes to improving reintegration with another employer (2nd track) by developing and trying out innovative approaches. Insight is needed into how employers and employees can make better use of the possibilities for reintegration and there is a need for concrete practical tools

• 2020- Editor since 1 September 2020 of Gedrag & Organisatie, scientific journal in the field of social, work and organizational psychology

• 2019- (Vice-)chair of the ZonMW committee to improve the quality of s Gatekeeper Process. The aim of the program is to: Improve the quality of the gatekeeper process and promote the quality of work-related care during this process. It is about quality improvement during the gatekeeper process, i.e. optimal guidance for the reintegration of a sick employee during this period and not about the quality of prevention in the period before.

• 2017-2024 Vice-chair of the “Werken is Gezond”committee of ZonMW. This program focuses on reducing the health differences and strives to promote the health of workers with a lower socio-economic position (SEP) through research.

• 2013-2024 Member of Scientific Board of Blik op Werk. Blik op Werk is an independent quality organization of approved service providers, proven methodologies and practical knowledge about sustainable labor participation and integration. 

• 2010- Member of Advisory Board Tijdschrift voor Bedrijfs- en Verzekeringsgeneeskunde.

• 2010-2024 Bijzonder hoogleraar in Strategisch Human Resource Management, in het bijzonder Vitaliteitsmanagement, faculteit Managementwetenschappen, Open Universiteit, Heerlen. 

• 2006-2024 Senior-Consultant Human Resource Management, a.s.r. re-integratie en diensten, consultants duurzame inzetbaarheid, Loyalis Kennis en Consult. 

• 2001-2006 Team manager at TNO Work & Employment Hoofddorp

• 2001-2002 Lecturer at BeNeLux-Universitair Centrum, post-graduate education for professionals,
  Eindhoven (0,1 fte)

• 1995-2001 (Senior) researcher/consultant, NIA/TNO, Amsterdam and TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden.

• 1992-1995 Senior Consultant Human Resource Management, Department of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment, The Hague.

• 1990-1990 Lecturer at the Department of Occupational Psychology, Birkbeck College,
  University of London. Supervisor: Dr. J. Hartley.

• 1989-1992 Lecturer at the Department of Social Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. Supervisor: Dr. P.G. Klandermans

• 1985-1989 PhD Research fellow, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Hague. Supervisors: 

  • Prof. Dr. P.G. Klandermans, Department of Social Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

  • Prof.dr P.J.D. Drenth, Department of Work and Organisational Psychology,
    Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

• 1984-1985 Research Fellow, Research on organisational change in the civil service
  Supervisor: Dr. P.L. Koopman, Department of Work & Organisational Psychology,
  Vrije Universiteit te Amsterdam

• 1981-1982 Reseach Assistant, Research on decision making in Works Councils

  • Supervisor: Dr. P.L. Koopman, Department of Work & Organisational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

• 1977-1984: Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

• 1978: Propedeutics: June, 1978

• 1980: Candidate: October, 1980

• 1984: Graduation: August 1984

Majors: ‘Social  Psychology’ (cum laude) and ‘Work & Organisational Psychology’

(cum laude). Teaching Degree in Social Studies (Maatschappijleer): one year course: Didactics of Social Studies

• 1985-1989:   PhD Research fellow at the department of Social Psychology, Vrije Universiteit. Amsterdam.  Research on job insecurity

Supervisors: 

• Prof. Dr P.G. Klandermans, Department of Social Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 

• Prof.dr P.J.D. Drenth, Department of Work and Organisational Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 

• Date of graduation: October, 1990

• 2011- 2014 PhD “Aantrekkelijke banen en organisaties voor jonge baanzoekers” (Stephan Corporaal, Saxion Hogeschool, Open Universiteit Nederland with Dr. Maarten van Riemsdijk and Prof.dr. Frits Kluijtmans). Defense PhD thesis on October, 10, 2014.

• 2011-    PhD “Job design for older workers” (Hiske den Boer, Open Universiteit Netherlands  with Prof. dr. E. Groenland Nyenrode University, The Netherlands)

• 2011-2022 PhD “"The effects of personal leadership on the motivation and vitality of nurses" (Pauline van Dorssen-Boog, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands). Defense PhD thesis on February 18, 2022. 

• 2011- PhD “"Parallel Careers" (Maria Candida Baumer de Azevedo, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands with Dr. J. Semeijn )

• 2015-2017 PhD “The Resilient Innovation Team. A study of teams coping with critical incidents during innovation projects”, Peter R.A. Oeij, Open Universiteit, The Netherlands with Prof. dr. J. Gaspersz, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands and Prof. dr. S. Dhondt, TNO/ KU Leuven, Belgium). Defense PhD thesis on January, 25, 2017.

• 2018-2022 PhD “Lange termijn klachten na kanker(behandeling) en optimalisatie van werkvermogen bij werkende (ex-)kankerpatiënten (Ingrid Boelhouwer, Open Universiteit met dr. Willemijn Vermeer Hogeschool van Amsterdam). Defense PhD thesis on September 30, 2022.