Biography
Dr. Lieke Oldenhof is Associate Professor in anthropology of the changing welfare state at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management. She is member of the daily board of the healthcare governance department.
Her research focuses on how citizens, professionals and public managers reconfigure the welfare state at the local level: in cities, neighbourhoods and communities. Drawing from anthropology, pragmatic sociology, public administration and urban health, she generates new transdisciplinary insights about how the transformation of the welfare state can become more inclusive and reduce rising health inequalities.
To ensure societal impact, her research projects and education are co-productions with partners like citizen initiatives, local welfare organizations and city goverments. To more structurally embed collaboration, she co-founded the CARE Lab Rotterdam (Connect, Action, Research, Education). The goal of the CARE Lab is to jointly do action research together with citizens, professionals and policymakers in order to contribute to personalized and integrated support for citizens with multiple interlocking problems (health, debts, precarious work and housing). She is also member of the Young Erasmus Academy and in this capacity involved in the development of Recognition & Rewards Policies at EUR and school level.
Lieke received several prizes and grants. She finished her PhD cum laude: an ethnographic study about how public managers deal with conflicting values in the changing welfare state. For this research, she won the best PhD thesis award of the Karolinska Medical Management Centre and European Health Management Association. Her article ‘On Justification Work’ in Public Administration Review was awarded with the best Published Article Award by the Academy of Management. In 2018, she obtained a Veni grant by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) to investigate public encounters between citizens and professionals in the changing local welfare state. In 2019, she received the Frans Rutten Research Award for Research Talent at ESHPM. In 2023, she co-obtained a Horizon grant CityMove: city-based interventions to stimulate active movement for health. She is WP lead of action research in city living labs (Europe, Latin America, Africa).
Research themes:
- Wicked problems in society, such as unequal citizen participation, rising health inequalities, unhealthy living environments, digital surveillance and discrimination.
- Transformation of welfare states at the local level:
- Citizen participation
- Healthy placemaking
- Prevention
- Digitalization
- Personalization
- Boundary-crossing governance
- Value and system complexity
- Trans-disciplinary research
Research methods:
- Multi-sited ethnography (from micro practies to macro policy)
- Participatory action research
- Shadowing of key stakeholders
- Narrative conversation analysis
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- oldenhof@eshpm.eur.nl
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Work
- Jonathan Berg, Lieke Oldenhof, Kim Putters & Jeroen van Wijngaarden (2024) - Which client is worthy of using discretion?: Analysing storytelling practices of Dutch street-level bureaucrats in inter-departmental settings. - Journal of Social Policy, 1-20 - doi: 10.1017/S0047279424000199
- Lieke Oldenhof, Margot Kersing & Liesbet van Zoonen (2024) - Sphere transgressions in the Dutch digital welfare state: causing harm to citizens when legal rules, ethical norms and quality procedures are lacking - Information Communication and Society, 1-17 - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2358163 - [link]
- Rik Wehrens, Iris Wallenburg & Lieke Oldenhof (2024) - Sphere transgressions in health and social care: reflections on the role of the embedded social scientist - Information Communication and Society - doi: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2314546 - [link]
- Lieke Oldenhof & Roland Bal (2023) - Regulatory leadership: conducting mundane work to 'tailor' rules - doi: 10.4337/9781800886254.00030
- Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp, Lieke Oldenhof & Roland Bal (2023) - The clocks run at slightly different speeds. Clashing timeframes in COVID-19 health risk governance - Health, Risk and Society, 25 (7-8), 366-386 - doi: 10.1080/13698575.2023.2255619 - [link]
- Janet Ressang-Wildschut, Lieke Oldenhof & Ian Leistikow (2023) - Can leadership make the difference?: A scoping review of leadership and its effects in child and youth care - Children and Youth Services Review, 150 - doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107017 - [link]
- Hugo Peeters, Lieke E. Oldenhof, Wilma van der Scheer & Kim Putters (2023) - Bedtime negotiations: Unravelling normative complexity in hospital-based prevention - Sociology of Health and Illness, 45 (5), 1082-1100 - doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13633 - [link]
- Rik Wehrens, Lieke Oldenhof, Marjolijn Heerings, Violet Petit-Steeghs, Sander van Haperen, Roland Bal & Trisha Greenhalgh (2023) - Integrating System Dynamics and Action Research: Towards a Consideration of Normative Complexity Comment on “Insights Gained From a Re-analysis of Five Improvement Cases in Healthcare Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research” - International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12 (1) - doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2023.7582 - [link]
- Sabrina Huizenga, Lieke Oldenhof, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Governing the resilient city: An empirical analysis of governing techniques - Cities, 135 - doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2023.104237 - [link]
- Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Stadslabs als experimentele tussenruimte: nieuwe waardenafwegingen in stedelijke ontwikkeling - Bestuurskunde, (2) - [link]
- Lieke Oldenhof (2023) - Maatwerk in tijden van schaarste
- Lieke Oldenhof (2023) - University of New South Wales (External organisation)
- Lieke Oldenhof (2023) - Health Care Governance (HCG) (Organisational unit)
- Jonathan Berg, Jeroen van Wijngaarden & Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - Kenniscafe CARE lab Rotterdam
- Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences (Organisational unit)
- Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - Street-level bureaucracy in the 21st century
- Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - Young Erasmus Academy, Erasmus University Rotterdam (External organisation)
- LE (Lieke) Oldenhof (2020) - CARE Lab Rotterdam (External organisation)
- LE (Lieke) Oldenhof (2019) - Veldacademie (External organisation)
- Marianne Bochove & Lieke Oldenhof (2016) - Who Gets to Be Called a Professional in a Transforming Welfare State?
- LE (Lieke) Oldenhof (2019) - Frans Rutten Research Award for Research Talent
- Lieke Oldenhof (2016) - Best PhD Thesis Award by the Karolinska Medical Management Centre and the European Health Management Association
- Kim Putters, Lieke Oldenhof & J. Postma (2015) - Best Article Award Academy of Management for 'Justification work: how compromising enables public managers to deal with conflicting values'
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW103K
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW208K
Integration project
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW208I
Module Knowledge
- Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year Level
- Bachelor 3
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW309K
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW101K
Integration project
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- GW103I