Biography
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Godfried Engbersen is an emProfessor of Sociology.
He is an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences (KNAW) and an elected member of the Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR).
Before, he worked at the universities of Leiden (Ph.D. University of Leiden, 1990), Amsterdam and Utrecht, and as a visiting professor at the Centre of Western European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (spring 1996).
His research programme focuses on social inequality and international migration. In 2012, together with Erik Snel, he founded the knowledge lab for ‘Liveable neighbourhoods’ [Leefbare wijken]: a partnership between the city of Rotterdam and Erasmus University where local knowledge is produced and exchanged.
You can view Godfried Engbersen's Google Scholar profile here.
For more information about his work visit his personal website.
Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Professor emeritus | Policy, Politics and Society
- engbersen@essb.eur.nl
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Work
- Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen, Erik Snel & Jan de Boom (2025) - The effect of institutional trust on the relationship between social media as an information resource and policy non-compliance: Dutch survey evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic - International Review of Administrative Sciences, 91 (2), 259-274 - doi: 10.1177/00208523241306410 - [link]
- Anna Triandafyllidou, Homayoun Shirazi & Godfried Engbersen (2024) - Migration Skill Corridors - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen, Peter G.M. van der Heijden, Hanne Oberman & Jan de Boom (2024) - Ongelijke verdeling van de sociale gevolgen van de coronapandemie - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen & Julia Reinold (2024) - The Complexity of Migration Decisions within Migration Corridors: Applying Insights from EUMAGINE and THEMIS Studies to the Link4Skills Project - [link]
- Carla Kolner, Kevin Pijpers, Guusje Enneking, Laxsini Murugesu & Godfried Engbersen (2024) - De vijf functies van de sociale infrastructuur tijdens een pandemie - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen, Jan de Boom & Y (Youri) Seidler (2024) - Nederland na de pandemie: Over de doorwerking van de coronapandemie op sociale cohesie - [link]
- Gijs Custers, Marjolijn Das & Godfried Engbersen (2023) - Change or stability in educational inequalities?: Educational mobility and school effects in the context of a major urban policy - Urban Studies, 60 (14), 2852-2873 - doi: 10.1177/00420980231162774 - [link]
- Margriet Lenkens, Frank J. van Lenthe, Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Sabine Severiens, Godfried Engbersen & Gera E. Nagelhout (2023) - Experiential peer support and desistance from crime: a systematic realist literature review - Psychology, Crime and Law, 30 (10), 1421-1451 - doi: 10.1080/1068316X.2023.2203925 - [link]
- Gijs Custers & Godfried Engbersen (2022) - Linking social capital and organizational ties: How different types of neighborhood organizations broker resources for the urban poor - Journal of Urban Affairs, 46 (10), 1992-2008 - doi: 10.1080/07352166.2022.2137032 - [link]
- Erik Snel, Godfried Engbersen, Jan de Boom & Marianne van Bochove (2022) - Social capital as protection against the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic - Frontiers in Sociology, 7 - doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2022.728541 - [link]
- Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Reshmi Marhe, Laura van Duin, Godfried Engbersen, Arne Popma & Sabine Severiens (2021) - The Longitudinal Interplay Between Social Network and Psychopathology in Multi-Problem Young Adult Men; Separating Within-and Between-Person Effects - Frontiers in Psychology, 12 - doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.727432 - [link]
- Margriet Lenkens, GE Nagelhout, Loïs Schenk, M Sentse, Sabine Severiens, Godfried Engbersen, L Dijkhof & Frank Lenthe (2021) - ‘I (really) know what you mean’. Mechanisms of experiential peer support for young people with criminal behavior: A qualitative study - Journal of Crime and Justice, 44 (5), 535-552 - doi: 10.1080/0735648X.2020.1848608 - [link]
- Roel Jennissen, MAP (Mark) Bovens & Godfried Engbersen (2021) - Clusteren op basis van cultuur: Etno-linguïstische indelingen van herkomstlanden als alternatieven voor westers/niet-westers in integratieonderzoek - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen, Marianne Van Bochove, Jan de Boom, Jet Bussemaker, Btissame el Farisi, Andre Krouwel, Jeroen van Lindert, Katja Rusinovic, Erik Snel, Laura van Heck, Hasse van der Veen & P van Wensveen (2021) - De laag-vertrouwensamenleving: De maatschappelijke impact van COVID-19 in Amsterdam, Den Haag, Rotterdam & Nederland, vijfde meting - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2021) - COVID-19 als contrastvloeistof: Over oude en nieuwe ongelijkheden en het ontstaan van een parallelle samenleving - [link]
- Loïs Schenk, Miranda Sentse, Margriet Lenkens, Gera E. Nagelhout, Godfried Engbersen & Sabine Severiens (2021) - Instrumental mentoring for young adults: A multi-method study - Journal of Adolescent Research, 36 (4), 398-424 - doi: 10.1177/0743558420979123 - [link]
- Godfried Engbersen (2025) - De ontdekking van de samenleving. Over het plezier van de sociologie (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Europe's Arizona: On the Local Limits to Migration Control (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Rotterdam: City of Immigrants (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - The Public Value of the Social Sciences (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - The relevance and irrelevance of migration networks in understanding decreasing and expanding migration flows (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Arm Nederland (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Erik Snel, M 't Hart & Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Reactive Transnationalism: transnational involvement in the face of discrimination (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - 'Het beste medicijn tegen armoede' (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - Armoede in Nederland. Wat doen we ertegen? (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic - Godfried Engbersen (2013) - De publieke functie van de sociale wetenschappen (Speaker)
Activiteit: Oral presentation › Academic
- Godfried Bernard Maria Engbersen, J. Burgers, Gerda Rodenburg, Miranda Sentse, D. Van de Mheen & S. Severiens (2014) - Bridging the gap between science and practice: Vulnerable youth in major cities (EUR REI grant, 800k)
