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Pearl Dykstra’s publications are on family change, aging and the life course, aging societies, intergenerational ties, and loneliness. Her research program at the Erasmus University Rotterdam is a continuation of her work on families, generations and the life course with a specific focus on the role of welfare states in cross-national comparative analyses. In 2004 she was elected as a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
Research programs
- Director of the Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (more information: www.nkps.nl)
- Coordinator of the EU Seventh Framework program “How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework” (more information: www.multilinks-project.eu)
- Consortium member of the Generations & Gender Programme: A European research infrastructure on the causes and consequences of demographic developments (more information: www.ggp-i.org)
Publications
List of publications you can find here:
http://www.eur.nl/fsw/soc/medewerkers/profielen/?tx_atmetismis_pi1[metis_id]=1103674
CV
FULL PROFESSOR EMPIRICAL SOCIOLOGY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM
2009- PRESENT
RESEARCHER
NETHERLANDS INTERDISCIPLINARY DEMOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE (NIDI), THE HAGUE
(RESEARCH INDUSTRY)
1989-2009
CHAIR KINSHIP DEMOGRAPHY
UTRECHT UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
2003 — 2009
EDUCATION
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM
PHD , SOCIAL SCIENCES , 1985 — 1990
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM
MASTERS, SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY (CUM LAUDE)
1984-1985
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
MASTERS , PSYCHOLOGY ,
1979 — 1982
VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM
BACHELOR , PSYCHOLOGY , (CUM LAUDE)
1976 — 1979
Contact:
Department of Sociology, 010-4082085
Email: dykstra@fsw.eur.nl
Press officer: Marjolein Kooistra, kooistra@fsw.eur.nl, 010-4082135


