Billie De Haas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1725467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Billie De Haas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Billie |
| FAMILY NAME | De Haas |
| SIGNATURE | DE HAAS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9862-0114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“What Else Would She Need to Be Happy?”
Despite sustained policy attention to women’s wellbeing, dominant approaches often rely on individualistic and outcome-based indicators that inadequately capture how well-being and agency are shaped within households, kinship relations, and gendered social norms. Drawing on the capability approach, this paper examines how women in rural Jharkhand conceptualise a good life and exercise agency within the obligations, relationships, and moral expect…
Reproductive Autonomy in Fertility Research in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility research in sub‐Saharan Africa regularly indicates the need to increase women's reproductive autonomy. However, individual, female‐focused conceptualizations of reproductive autonomy tend to neglect the power dynamics both internal and external to couples and other intimate relationships that shape a woman's reproductive autonomy. Furthermore, they disregard the reproductive autonomy of men and other subpopulations and partners in intim…
Challenges and opportunities during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging implications on the academic community and there have been numerous commentaries on the effects of the pandemic on qualitative health research. However, the vulnerabilities faced by participants and researchers during the pandemic have remained underexplored. Addressing this gap, this reflective article discusses the intersecting challenges and opportunities arising for participants and researchers in qu…
Older adults' adaptations to life events
Mobility research tends to focus on physical movement and experiences in later life; however, changes in older adult mobility over time remains underexplored. Furthermore, older adults typically experience many life events, some of which result from cognitive and physical decline, and many of which impact mobility. This article aims to explore how life events affect the mobility of older adults over time. We conducted in-depth interviews with 22 …
The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile
Informal carers are and will remain a vital part of dementia care. Given the nature of their caring tasks, which focus on enabling the care recipient to engage in meaningful activities, informal dementia carers are affected in their everyday mobility. Expectations manifested by society, loved ones and the carers themselves play a critical role in how carers perform their caring role and how they perceive their opportunity, or capability, to be mo…
Teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda
Little is known about how teachers’ personal sexual experiences influence their motivations and practices when teaching sexuality education. Cultural schema theory was used to explore teachers’ personal experience of the onset of sexual activity and explain how sexuality education teaching is influenced by such experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda. The interviews were transcribed ver…
Teachers’ conflicting cultural schemas of teaching comprehensive school-based sexuality education in Kampala, Uganda
Teachers can feel uncomfortable teaching sexuality education when the content conflicts with their cultural values and beliefs. However, more research is required to understand how to resolve conflicts between teachers' values and beliefs and those implicit in comprehensive approaches to sexuality education. This study uses cultural schema theory to identify teachers' cultural schemas of teaching sexuality education and the internal conflicts ari…
Young people’s perceptions of relationships and sexual practices in the abstinence-only context of Uganda
The Ugandan government has been criticised on several grounds for its abstinence-only policies on sexuality education directed towards young people. These grounds include the failure to recognise the multiple realities faced by young people, some of whom may already be sexually active. In the study reported on this paper, students’ perceptions of relationships and sexual practices were analysed to obtain an understanding of how young people const…
The World Starts With Me
The study showed an intervention effect on a number of socio-cognitive determinants. However, the effectiveness of WSWM could be improved by giving more systematic attention to the context in which such a programme is to be implemented. Implications for the systematic development and implementation of school-based safe sex interventions in Uganda will be discussed
Older adults' adaptations to life events
Mobility research tends to focus on physical movement and experiences in later life; however, changes in older adult mobility over time remains underexplored. Furthermore, older adults typically experience many life events, some of which result from cognitive and physical decline, and many of which impact mobility. This article aims to explore how life events affect the mobility of older adults over time. We conducted in-depth interviews with 22 …
The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile
Informal carers are and will remain a vital part of dementia care. Given the nature of their caring tasks, which focus on enabling the care recipient to engage in meaningful activities, informal dementia carers are affected in their everyday mobility. Expectations manifested by society, loved ones and the carers themselves play a critical role in how carers perform their caring role and how they perceive their opportunity, or capability, to be mo…
The World Starts With Me
The study showed an intervention effect on a number of socio-cognitive determinants. However, the effectiveness of WSWM could be improved by giving more systematic attention to the context in which such a programme is to be implemented. Implications for the systematic development and implementation of school-based safe sex interventions in Uganda will be discussed
Young people’s perceptions of relationships and sexual practices in the abstinence-only context of Uganda
The Ugandan government has been criticised on several grounds for its abstinence-only policies on sexuality education directed towards young people. These grounds include the failure to recognise the multiple realities faced by young people, some of whom may already be sexually active. In the study reported on this paper, students’ perceptions of relationships and sexual practices were analysed to obtain an understanding of how young people const…
Teachers’ conflicting cultural schemas of teaching comprehensive school-based sexuality education in Kampala, Uganda
Teachers can feel uncomfortable teaching sexuality education when the content conflicts with their cultural values and beliefs. However, more research is required to understand how to resolve conflicts between teachers' values and beliefs and those implicit in comprehensive approaches to sexuality education. This study uses cultural schema theory to identify teachers' cultural schemas of teaching sexuality education and the internal conflicts ari…
Teachers’ personal experiences of sexual initiation motivating their sexuality education messages in secondary schools in Kampala, Uganda
Little is known about how teachers’ personal sexual experiences influence their motivations and practices when teaching sexuality education. Cultural schema theory was used to explore teachers’ personal experience of the onset of sexual activity and explain how sexuality education teaching is influenced by such experiences. In-depth interviews were conducted with 40 secondary school teachers in Kampala, Uganda. The interviews were transcribed ver…
The role of performativity in informal dementia carers' capability to be mobile
Informal carers are and will remain a vital part of dementia care. Given the nature of their caring tasks, which focus on enabling the care recipient to engage in meaningful activities, informal dementia carers are affected in their everyday mobility. Expectations manifested by society, loved ones and the carers themselves play a critical role in how carers perform their caring role and how they perceive their opportunity, or capability, to be mo…
Challenges and opportunities during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had wide-ranging implications on the academic community and there have been numerous commentaries on the effects of the pandemic on qualitative health research. However, the vulnerabilities faced by participants and researchers during the pandemic have remained underexplored. Addressing this gap, this reflective article discusses the intersecting challenges and opportunities arising for participants and researchers in qu…
Older adults' adaptations to life events
Mobility research tends to focus on physical movement and experiences in later life; however, changes in older adult mobility over time remains underexplored. Furthermore, older adults typically experience many life events, some of which result from cognitive and physical decline, and many of which impact mobility. This article aims to explore how life events affect the mobility of older adults over time. We conducted in-depth interviews with 22 …
Reproductive Autonomy in Fertility Research in Sub‐Saharan Africa
Fertility research in sub‐Saharan Africa regularly indicates the need to increase women's reproductive autonomy. However, individual, female‐focused conceptualizations of reproductive autonomy tend to neglect the power dynamics both internal and external to couples and other intimate relationships that shape a woman's reproductive autonomy. Furthermore, they disregard the reproductive autonomy of men and other subpopulations and partners in intim…
“What Else Would She Need to Be Happy?”
Despite sustained policy attention to women’s wellbeing, dominant approaches often rely on individualistic and outcome-based indicators that inadequately capture how well-being and agency are shaped within households, kinship relations, and gendered social norms. Drawing on the capability approach, this paper examines how women in rural Jharkhand conceptualise a good life and exercise agency within the obligations, relationships, and moral expect…
Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (3 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Human sexuality (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works)