Gerlieke Veltkamp
Biographic Data
| ID | 329240 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerlieke Veltkamp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerlieke |
| FAMILY NAME | Veltkamp |
| SIGNATURE | VELTKAMP G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5644-5004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Democratising participatory health promotion: Power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention
Public policy aimed at preventing undesired phenomena has increasingly sought to engage representatives of the target population. Little is known, however, about how power dynamics function to shape the processes and outcomes of risk governance engagement interventions. In order to study the ways in which, and the extent to which, power differentials can be reduced in participatory health promotion initiatives, we develop a conceptual framework s…
Negotiating policy ideas: Participatory action research projects across five European countries
Between 2019 and 2021, 199 adolescents collaborated with adults in 15 participatory action research projects, called Youth Alliances, to contribute to system-directed obesity prevention in five EU countries. We investigated if and how these Youth Alliances included diverse youth, enhanced engagement, generated policy proposals and changed problem perception. We assessed the Youth Alliances from a micro-sociological perspective of negotiated order…
From Danger to Uncertainty: Changing Health Care Practices, Everyday Experiences, and Temporalities in Dealing With Covid-19 Policies in the Netherlands
Based on ongoing longitudinal research in families with young children, we investigate parents’ changing everyday experiences and health care practices of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands from March to June 2020. We identify four key themes developing over time. In relation to evolving COVID-19 prevention policies, (a) the lockdown interrupted life and experiences of temporality. (b) Following the lockdown, risk management change…
From danger to uncertainty: Changing healthcare practices, everyday experiences, and temporalities in dealing with Covid-19 policies in the Netherlands
Based on ongoing longitudinal research in families with young children, we investigate parents' changing everyday experiences and healthcare practices of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands from March until June 2020. We identify four key themes developing over time. In relation to evolving Covid-19 prevention policies 1) the lockdown interrupted life and experiences of temporality. 2) Following the lockdown, risk management changed…
Family health competence: Attachment, detachment and health practices in the early years of parenthood
During the first years of a baby's life, parents develop ways of caring that affect the child's health later in life. In this paper, we focus on eating and sleeping, as social practices that mediate between socioeconomic and cultural conditions and health outcomes, such as weight status. We argue for an analysis of what we call 'family health competence', meaning emerging know-hows and resources relevant to healthy living produced, embodied and s…
When Do Professionals Envision and Trust Fathers as Caregivers over the Course of Giving Birth? A Comparison of Pre- and Postnatal Healthcare Professionals’ Assessments of Fathers in the Netherlands, …
When fathers are involved in caregiving from the beginning of their child’s life, they are more likely to stay involved, resulting in more gender equality between spouses and in positive cognitive and psychosocial health outcomes for children. It has been shown, however, that professional experts often focus predominantly on and build trust relationships with mothers rather than fathers. In this paper, drawing on interviews with and observations …
The everyday risk work of Dutch child-healthcare professionals: Inferring 'Safe' and 'Good' Parenting Through Trust, as Mediated by a Lens of Gender and Class
Amidst intensifying policy concerns with children's wellbeing and development, healthcare professionals are required not only to assess risk of abuse and neglect, but to manage risk of 'poor parenting' more broadly. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews and non-participant observations of 61 professional-family interactions, across four preventative public health services for children in the Netherlands, we explored how professionals accomplished suc…
Institutions as reference points for parents-to-be in European societies: A theoretical and analytical framework
All over Europe, the social conditions under which couples become parents in the early twenty-first century differ markedly from those of their parents’ generation. Unlike earlier cohorts, today’s women and men tend to have quite similar life experiences and skills when they form a couple and decide to start a family. Yet, research shows that couples still appear to be giving up gender equal divisions of labour in favour of more traditional famil…
Is personality modulated by language
We administered German and Spanish versions of the Neuroticism Extraversion Openness–Five-Factor Inventory personality inventory to two groups of late bilinguals (second-language learners) of these two languages. Regardless of individuals’ first language, both groups scored higher on Extraversion and Neuroticism when Spanish was the test language. In turn, scores on Agreeability were higher when German was used as the test language. The results a…
The everyday risk work of Dutch child-healthcare professionals: Inferring 'Safe' and 'Good' Parenting Through Trust, as Mediated by a Lens of Gender and Class
Amidst intensifying policy concerns with children's wellbeing and development, healthcare professionals are required not only to assess risk of abuse and neglect, but to manage risk of 'poor parenting' more broadly. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews and non-participant observations of 61 professional-family interactions, across four preventative public health services for children in the Netherlands, we explored how professionals accomplished suc…
Family health competence: Attachment, detachment and health practices in the early years of parenthood
During the first years of a baby's life, parents develop ways of caring that affect the child's health later in life. In this paper, we focus on eating and sleeping, as social practices that mediate between socioeconomic and cultural conditions and health outcomes, such as weight status. We argue for an analysis of what we call 'family health competence', meaning emerging know-hows and resources relevant to healthy living produced, embodied and s…
When Do Professionals Envision and Trust Fathers as Caregivers over the Course of Giving Birth? A Comparison of Pre- and Postnatal Healthcare Professionals’ Assessments of Fathers in the Netherlands, …
When fathers are involved in caregiving from the beginning of their child’s life, they are more likely to stay involved, resulting in more gender equality between spouses and in positive cognitive and psychosocial health outcomes for children. It has been shown, however, that professional experts often focus predominantly on and build trust relationships with mothers rather than fathers. In this paper, drawing on interviews with and observations …
Is personality modulated by language
We administered German and Spanish versions of the Neuroticism Extraversion Openness–Five-Factor Inventory personality inventory to two groups of late bilinguals (second-language learners) of these two languages. Regardless of individuals’ first language, both groups scored higher on Extraversion and Neuroticism when Spanish was the test language. In turn, scores on Agreeability were higher when German was used as the test language. The results a…
Institutions as reference points for parents-to-be in European societies: A theoretical and analytical framework
All over Europe, the social conditions under which couples become parents in the early twenty-first century differ markedly from those of their parents’ generation. Unlike earlier cohorts, today’s women and men tend to have quite similar life experiences and skills when they form a couple and decide to start a family. Yet, research shows that couples still appear to be giving up gender equal divisions of labour in favour of more traditional famil…
The everyday risk work of Dutch child-healthcare professionals: Inferring 'Safe' and 'Good' Parenting Through Trust, as Mediated by a Lens of Gender and Class
Amidst intensifying policy concerns with children's wellbeing and development, healthcare professionals are required not only to assess risk of abuse and neglect, but to manage risk of 'poor parenting' more broadly. Drawing on 15 in-depth interviews and non-participant observations of 61 professional-family interactions, across four preventative public health services for children in the Netherlands, we explored how professionals accomplished suc…
When Do Professionals Envision and Trust Fathers as Caregivers over the Course of Giving Birth? A Comparison of Pre- and Postnatal Healthcare Professionals’ Assessments of Fathers in the Netherlands, …
When fathers are involved in caregiving from the beginning of their child’s life, they are more likely to stay involved, resulting in more gender equality between spouses and in positive cognitive and psychosocial health outcomes for children. It has been shown, however, that professional experts often focus predominantly on and build trust relationships with mothers rather than fathers. In this paper, drawing on interviews with and observations …
From danger to uncertainty: Changing healthcare practices, everyday experiences, and temporalities in dealing with Covid-19 policies in the Netherlands
Based on ongoing longitudinal research in families with young children, we investigate parents' changing everyday experiences and healthcare practices of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands from March until June 2020. We identify four key themes developing over time. In relation to evolving Covid-19 prevention policies 1) the lockdown interrupted life and experiences of temporality. 2) Following the lockdown, risk management changed…
Family health competence: Attachment, detachment and health practices in the early years of parenthood
During the first years of a baby's life, parents develop ways of caring that affect the child's health later in life. In this paper, we focus on eating and sleeping, as social practices that mediate between socioeconomic and cultural conditions and health outcomes, such as weight status. We argue for an analysis of what we call 'family health competence', meaning emerging know-hows and resources relevant to healthy living produced, embodied and s…
From Danger to Uncertainty: Changing Health Care Practices, Everyday Experiences, and Temporalities in Dealing With Covid-19 Policies in the Netherlands
Based on ongoing longitudinal research in families with young children, we investigate parents’ changing everyday experiences and health care practices of dealing with COVID-19 policies in the Netherlands from March to June 2020. We identify four key themes developing over time. In relation to evolving COVID-19 prevention policies, (a) the lockdown interrupted life and experiences of temporality. (b) Following the lockdown, risk management change…
Negotiating policy ideas: Participatory action research projects across five European countries
Between 2019 and 2021, 199 adolescents collaborated with adults in 15 participatory action research projects, called Youth Alliances, to contribute to system-directed obesity prevention in five EU countries. We investigated if and how these Youth Alliances included diverse youth, enhanced engagement, generated policy proposals and changed problem perception. We assessed the Youth Alliances from a micro-sociological perspective of negotiated order…
Democratising participatory health promotion: Power and knowledge involved in engaging European adolescents in childhood obesity prevention
Public policy aimed at preventing undesired phenomena has increasingly sought to engage representatives of the target population. Little is known, however, about how power dynamics function to shape the processes and outcomes of risk governance engagement interventions. In order to study the ways in which, and the extent to which, power differentials can be reduced in participatory health promotion initiatives, we develop a conceptual framework s…
Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Health care (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Citizen journalism (2 works) · Community Health and Development (2 works) · Environmental health (2 works)