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prof.dr. A. Need (Ariana)

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About Me

My profile is three-sided. First, I am a senior scholar in sociology using state-of-the art methods and statistics, with 25 years of exper­ien­ce. I have a broad interest with respect to research topics and a strong track record in in­ter­disciplinary projects. The last ten years, my research has increasingly focused on health and inequality. Second, I am a scholar who is actively involved in teaching and educational innova­tion, ranging from stimulating excellence programmes in university edu­cation to being responsible for exams in social sciences in secondary education. Last, I am a university professional with strategic responsibilities, who is departmental chair but also works as a trust person for the accused in Scientific Integrity Com­plaints Procedures. I have a professional network extending across academia, the field of edu­cation and society.

Expertise

Netherlands
Netherlands
Education
Economics
Child Abuse
Municipality
Career
Delivery Of Health Care

Organizations

Research

In my research, I combine methodological rigor, societal relevance, transparency and par­si­mony. I have organized and led many large research projects, for instance a vidiproject and, more recently, the so-called Academic Workplace Youth (Academische Werkplaats Jeugd) in Twen­te. So far, I have suc­cess­fully supervised ten PhD students. I have presented the results of my research to a wide variety of audiences.

Publications

Recent
Jans, W., Need, A., Van Gerven, M., & Denters, B. (2018). Youth Policy Innovation in the Netherlands: The Realization of Centers for Youth and Families by Municipalities. International public management journal, 21(3), 346-368. DOI: 10.1080/10967494.2018.1428703
van Stenus, C. M. V., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., Kerkhof, E. F. G. M., & Need, A. (2018). Client experiences with perinatal healthcare for high-risk and low-risk women. Women and Birth. DOI: 10.1016/j.wombi.2018.01.006
Nieuwenhuis, R., Need, A., & van der Kolk, H. (2018). Family policy as an institutional context of economic inequality. Acta sociologica. DOI: 10.1177/0001699318760125
Priante, A., Ehrenhard, M. L., van den Broek, T. A., & Need, A. (2018). Identity and collective action via computer-mediated communication: A review and agenda for future research. New media & society, 20(7), 2647-2669. DOI: 10.1177/1461444817744783
van den Broek, T. A., Walker, E., Ehrenhard, M. L., Priante, A., & Need, A. (2017). Collective action in context: a multi-level analysis of movember teams' effectiveness.
van Stenus, C. M. V., Gotink, M., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., Sools, A., & Need, A. (2017). Through the client’s eyes: using narratives to explore experiences of care transfers during pregnancy, childbirth, and the neonatal period. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 17, [182]. DOI: 10.1186/s12884-017-1369-6
Nisrane, B. L., Morissens, A., Need, A., & Torenvlied, R. (2017). Economic Reintegration of Ethiopian Women Returned from the Middle East. International migration, 55(6), 122-136. DOI: 10.1111/imig.12358
Nieuwenhuis, R., Need, A., & van der Kolk, H. (2017). Is there such a thing as too long childcare leave?International journal of sociology and social policy, 37(1/2), 2-15. DOI: 10.1108/IJSSP-07-2015-0074
van Stenus, C. M. V., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., Kerkhof, E. F. G. M., & Need, A. (2017). Client satisfaction and transfers across care levels of women with uncomplicated pregnancies at the onset of labor. Midwifery, 48, 11-17. DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2017.02.007
Konijnendijk, A. A. J., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., Kaya, A. H., Haasnoot, M. E., & Need, A. (2017). In-house consultation to support professionals’ responses to child abuse and neglect: Determinants of professionals’ use and the association with guideline adherence. Child abuse & neglect, 69, 242-251. DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2017.04.025
Knoeff-Gijzen, S., Petter, J., L'Hoir, M. P., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., & Need, A. (2017). Procedures in child deaths in The Netherlands: a comparison with child death review. Journal of Public Health, 25(4), 357-370. DOI: 10.1007/s10389-017-0800-9
Jans, W., Denters, S. A. H., Need, A., & van Gerven-Haanpää, M. M-L. (2017). Lifting the ban on Dutch brothels: Do local social needs and local political demands matter for municipal prostitution policies?Policy & politics, 45(3), 449-466. DOI: 10.1332/030557316X14556289470900
Nieuwenhuis, R., van der Kolk, H., & Need, A. (2017). Women’s earnings and household inequality in OECD countries, 1973–2013. Acta sociologica, 60(1), 3-20. DOI: 10.1177/0001699316654528
Kuijpers, J. C., van den Broek, T. A., Ehrenhard, M. L., & Need, A. (2016). Thank You For Smoking! Assessing the Influence of Corporations and Activists on Tobacco Legislation in 22 European Countries. Paper presented at 76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management 2016, Anaheim, United States.
Knoeff-Gijzen, S., L'Hoir, M. P., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., & Need, A. (2016). Stakeholders’ opinions on the implementation of Child Death Review in the Netherlands. BMC research notes, 9(228), 228-. [228]. DOI: 10.1186/s13104-016-1966-x
Knoeff-Gijzen, S., Hilhorst, M. I., L'Hoir, M. P., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., & Need, A. (2016). Implementation of Child Death Review in the Netherlands: results of a pilot study. BMC health services research, 16(235), -. [235]. DOI: 10.1186/s12913-016-1500-9
Gijzen, S., L'Hoir, M. P., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., & Need, A. (2016). How do parents experience support after the death of their child?BMC pediatrics, 16, [204]. DOI: 10.1186/s12887-016-0749-9
Jans, W., Denters, S. A. H., Need, A., & van Gerven-Haanpää, M. M-L. (2016). Mandatory innovation in a decentralised system: the adoption of an e-government innovation in Dutch municipalities. Acta politica, 51(1), 36-60. DOI: 10.1057/ap.2014.36
Priante, A., Hiemstra, D., van den Broek, T. A., Saeed, A., Ehrenhard, M. L., & Need, A. (2016). #WhoAmI in 160 characters? Classifying social identities based on Twitter profile descriptions. In Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science: NLP+CSS, EMNLP (pp. 55-65). Austin, Texas: Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.18653/v1/W16-5608
Konijnendijk, A. A. J., Boere-Boonekamp, M. M., Fleuren, M. A. H., Haasnoot, M. E., & Need, A. (2015). What factors increase Dutch child health care professionals’ adherence to a national guideline on preventing child abuse and neglect?Child abuse & neglect, 54, 118-127. DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2015.11.006

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Education

I teach classes in sociology and in research methods for university students at all levels (ba­che­lor, master, research master, PhD). In 2013, I was awarded thenigSupervisor of the Year prize, being the best PhD supervisor of the Netherlands Institute of Government (nig), the Dutch Research School for Public Administration and Political Science. 

Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Courses

Projects

2017    Research Program ‘Expert at Work’ (on Effective deployment of volunteers in debt relief; main applicant); funded by ZonMw; budget k€150.

2015    Research Program ‘Academic Collaborative Centre Youth’(on strengthening care for chil­d­ren in poverty; main applicant); funded by ZonMw; budget: k€360

2014    Research Program ‘Academic Collaborative Centre Youth’(on strengthening care for vul­ne­ra­ble children; main applicant M. Cerneus,ggdTwente); extension funded by Zon­Mw; budget k€148

2014    Research Program ‘The diffusion and effectiveness of cancer early de­tec­tion campaigns on twitter’ (in collaboration with T. van den Broek, M. Ehren­hard and D. Hiem­stra); supported by Twitter #Data Grant (Access to Twitter’s unfiltered archival data since 2008 from nine Twitter cancer awareness campaigns and six cancer types since 2008 via gnipservice)

2012    Research Program ‘Zwangerschap en geboorte Subsidieronde: Regionaal consortium met inhoudelijk project 1b’ (Analysis of the coordination of care during pregnancy and perinatal period; main applicant M. Cerneus, ggdTwente); budget k€233

2010    Research Program ‘Academic Collaborative Centre Youth’(on strengthening care for vul­ne­ra­ble children; main applicant: M. Cerneus, ggdTwente); budget k€720

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Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn (building no. 10), room 4117
Hallenweg 17
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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University of Twente
Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Ravelijn  4117
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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