dr. A.M. Sools (Anneke)

Anneke Sools is Assistant Professor at the department of Psychology, Health and Technology at the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands). She is also Program Director of the Storylab (research group with expertise in narrative psychology, health, and technology connected to the University of Twente). Sools is the recipient of the 2018 Early Career Award from AERA (American Educational Research Association) Narrative SIG (Special Interest Group).

Her PhD dissertation at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht concerned narrative research methodology in the context of health promotion. She received a MSc Degree in Psychology of Culture and Religion from the University of Nijmegen. Her MSc thesis was awarded the Professor Halkes Thesis Award in 2001. For some years she has been a member of the advisory board of CNR (Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London) and a member of the steering committee of the international conference Narrative Matters. She is also on the advisory board of EQUIP (Association of European Qualitative Researchers in Psychology). In 2010 she founded the Dutch Network for Narrative Research together with Floor Basten from Campus Orléon. 

For her current research on how people construct hopeful, possibility-rich futures in social and societal situations where possibilities are under pressure (e.g. chronic illness, precarious employment, and at risk youth) she collaborates with researchers, professionals and artists in the Netherlands, Greece, the UK, Finland and Israel. 

Organisations

• Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS), Psychology, Health & Technology (PGT)