Biography
Dr. Lieke Oldenhof is Associate Professor in anthropology of the changing welfare state at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management.
Her research focuses on how citizens, professionals and public managers reconfigure the welfare state at the local level. Drawing from anthropology, pragmatic sociology and public administration, she generates new transdisciplinary insights about how the transition from a ‘welfare state’ to a ‘participation society’ is shaped at kitchen tables, in court rooms and in back-offices of local government administrators. Central questions are: what happens when (conflicting) values of the welfare state and the participation society meet? How are the outcomes of negotiations about these values consolidated in new (health)care institutions and (digital) infrastructures. And how can we use these insights to contribute to a more inclusive and fair society?
To ensure societal impact, her research projects and education are co-productions with partners like the Rotterdam municipality, the Council for Public Health and Society and local welfare organizations. To more structurally embed collaboration, she co-founded the CARE Lab Rotterdam (Connect, Action, Research, Education) together with the Rotterdam municipality and dr. Jeroen van Wijngaarden (ESHPM). The goal of the CARE Lab is to jointly do action research together with professionals and policymakers in order to contribute to integrated support for vulnerable Rotterdammers with multiple problems (care, debts, work, housing). She is also member of the Young Erasmus Academy.
Lieke received several prizes and grants. She finished her PhD cum laude: an ethnographic study of the daily work of middle managers in a 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 (Dutch project title: 'Maatwerk of willekeur aan de keukentafel?'). In 2019, she received the Frans Rutten Research Award for Research Talent.
Research themes:
- Local welfare and social care
- Personalization of public services
- Regulatory pressure
- New professional roles and forms of accountability
- Conflicting public values
- (Health) inequalities
- Digitale welfare state
Research methods:
- Multi-sited ethnography
- Shadowing
- Narrative analysis
Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management
- oldenhof@eshpm.eur.nl
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
More information
Work
- 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 - [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]
- 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]
- 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]
- Lieke Oldenhof, Sabrina Huizenga, Hester van de Bovenkamp & Roland Bal (2023) - Stadslabs als experimentele tussenruimte: nieuwe waardenafwegingen in stedelijke ontwikkeling - Bestuurskunde, (2) - [link]
- Jonathan Berg, Jeroen van Wijngaarden & Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - Los maken wat vast zit: Evaluatie van het PRIO programma, gericht op het helpen van kwetsbare Rotterdammers die vastlopen in het systeem
- Lieke Oldenhof & Eline Linthorst (2022) - Public encounters and the role of citizens' impression management - doi: 10.4337/9781800889330.00021
- Margot Kersing, Liesbet van Zoonen, Kim Putters & Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - The changing roles of frontline bureaucrats in the digital welfare state: The case of a data dashboard in Rotterdam’s Work and Income department - Data & Policy, 4 (E24) - doi: 10.1017/dap.2022.16 - [link]
- Rik Wehrens, Lieke Oldenhof & Roland Bal (2022) - Dealing With Conflicting Values in Policy Experiments: A New Pragmatist Approach - Administration and Society, 54 (9), 1736-1766 - doi: 10.1177/00953997211069326 - [link]
- Jonathan Berg, Jeroen van Wijngaarden & Lieke Oldenhof (2022) - Kenniscafe CARE lab Rotterdam
- 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?
- 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'
Thesis HCM
- Level
- master
- Year Level
- master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4030MV
Integration project
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW208I
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 2
- Year Level
- bachelor 2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW208K
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW101K
Comparative Health Policy
- Year Level
- master, master
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW4574M
Module Knowledge
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW103K
Integration project
- Level
- bachelor 1
- Year Level
- bachelor 1
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- GW103I