prof. dr. Marjolein Broese Van Groenou

Full Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sociology

Full Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, The Social Context of Aging (SoCA)

Personal information

Marjolein Broese van Groenou (1959) is full professor on 'Informal Care in a Changing Society' at the department of Sociology. She hold a Fenna Diemer Lindeboom chair, a chair for talented female professors, from 2014 to 2019. She was Head of the department and Director of PARIS, the research program of the department from 2016 till 2024. She was theme leader of the Institute of Societal Research's theme Care and Welfare in a resilient society until 2019. Since 1992 she is a senior member of the research team of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam and chair of the LASA-Care team. She was chair of the James Coleman Association, the alumni network of ICS PhD-students in sociology (2014-2021).

Research

Her research interests are on the social functioning of older adults in an ageing society. Her research is largely embedded in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA), an ongoing study on functioning of older adults. Publications include the interplay between social network relationships and health, social inequality in health and care, family caregiving, trends in use of informal and formal care over time, and the use of care at the end of life. Additional topics concern the collaboration between formal and informal caregivers of community-dwelling older adults, studied in the project Care networks of frail older adults, both from the perspective of individual helpers as from the perspective of the care organization. Another research project focused on how employers and employees can facilitate the combination of work and care. Current projects involve trends in socio-economic inequality in long term care use, trajectories in care use, the association between care use and wellbeing in a family perspective, and the interdependence between work and caregiving.

Teaching

At the master level she teaches a course on theories and policies regarding societal participation (Arbeid, burgerschap and social participation) in the Master Sociology. In the FSS Research Master she co-teaches a course on Care and Welfare in Resilient Societies. Supervision of master theses involve subjects on societal functioning and population ageing: social networks, intergenerational solidarity, informal care, care networks, health and wellbeing in later life. I give guest lectures on long term care in changing societies to other faculties and universities.

Grants

Over the years she received multiple grants from the National Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for PhD-projects on family caregiving, older couples, widowhood and divorce. Multiple grants are also received from the National Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw) for projects on care networks of frail older adults, work and care, and gender differences in the burden of caregiving. The most recent grants are from NWO-Open Research Area for In-CARE (2019-2023), an international project (with partners in UK, Germany and Japan) on how long term care policies impact on inequality in care and wellbeing, from NWO Open Competition for FAMCARE (2023-2025) on how families build well functioning care networks for their older parent, and from the GAK institute on the interdependence on work and caregiving (together with SCP).

Ancillary activities

Wetenschappelijke Adviescollege NWO | Den Haag | Adviseur | 2022-09-01 - 2026-10-01
Adviestafel SR voor NWO | Denb Haag | Adviseur | 2024-09-01 - present

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