Curriculum Vitae
Pearl A. Dykstra (Summer 2014) Biography
Birth: 14 december 1956, Sarnia (Ontario, Canada)
Family: partner Hans Kleipool, children Emma Kleipool (year of birth 1990) and Cato Kleipool (year of birth 1993)
Work address: Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam, Netherlands +31 10 4082112
e-mail: [email protected] Education:
1968-1970 Antwerp International School, Ekeren, Belgium
1970-1974 Christelijke Scholengemeenschap Walcheren, Middelburg (Atheneum-B) 1974-1976 Nursing, Academic Hospital Vrije University Amsterdam
1976-1979 ‘Kandidaats’ (undergraduate, psychology), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 1979-1982 M.A., Department of psychology, University of Toronto
1983-1985 ‘Doctoraal’ (graduate level, social psychology), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Dissertation:
Next of (non)kin: The importance of primary relationships for older adults’ well-being. Supervisors: J. de Jong Gierveld & F. Tazelaar. Faculty Social-Cultural Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1990 Honors:
‘Kandidaats’, cum laude, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1979 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1980
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1981
‘Doctoraal’, cum laude, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1985
Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Studies (NIAS), 2002-2003
Elected Member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), 2004 Elected Member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), 2005 Elected Member of the Dutch Social Sciences Council (SWR), 2006
Fellow of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Studies (NIAS), 2009
Elected Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA), 2010
Elected as one of the ‘top scientists’ of the Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2011 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant, 2013
Current positions:
Full Professor of Empirical Sociology, Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (since 2009)
Professional experience and employment:
2014 Thematic expert on the Active Ageing Index, European Commission’s Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion
2009 Consultant for the Population Unit of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)
2009 Coordinator Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) 2002-2009 Chair in Kinship demography, Universiteit Utrecht
2000- Director Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS)[In2010 the NKPS was nominated for the first data prize of the Data and Networking Services (DANS)] 2000 Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Social Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam
1990-2009 Senior researcher, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute, Den Haag 1985-1990 Research associate, Department of Social Research Methods, Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam
1983-1985 Legislative assistant, Dutch Parliament, Den Haag
1979-1982 Teaching assistant, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto 1974-1976 Nurse trainee, Academic Hospital Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Part-time employment between 1990 and 2002 in connection with childrearing responsibilities. Grants:
2014-2018 Principal investigator ‘Sustaining employability’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research TOP grant (NOW, 407-13-021) (€630,000)
2013-2018 Principal investigator ‘Unraveling the ways in which policy, economic, and cultural contexts structure generational interdependencies in families and their life outcomes’ (Families In Context), European Research Council Advanced Investigator Grant (ERC, 324211) (€2,179,862)
2013-2017 Principal investigator ‘The benefits of marriage: A cross-national comparative perspective on health and earnings, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Talent Grant (NWO, 406-13-047) (€171,000)
2013-2017 Co-investigator ‘Changing families and sustainable societies: Policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations’ (FamiliesAndSocieties), (EU 7th framework, 320116) (€6,495,000)
2012-2014 Co-investigator ‘The Generations and Gender Programme: A large-scale, longitudinal, comparative database for social science analysis’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Facilities (NWO, 184-032-204) (€500,000)
2011-2013 Principal investigator ‘Productive in multiple ways: In search of activating institutions’, Stichting Instituut GAK (SZ 2025) (€298,100)
2009-2011 Principal investigator ‘Netherlands Kinship Panel Study Wave 3’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, 481-08-008) (€245,000)
2009-2012 Co-investigator ‘Generations and Gender Programme (GGP): A European research infrastructure on the causes and consequences of demographic developments’ (EU 7th framework, 212749) (€2,000,000)
2008-2011 Principal investigator “Netherlands Kinship Panel Study Wave 3’, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) Strategic Fund (€275,000)
2008-2011 Principal investigator ‘How demographic changes shape intergenerational solidarity, well-being, and social integration: A multilinks framework (MULTILINKS)’ (EU 7th
framework, 217523) (€1,499,694)
2006-2007 Principal investigator, ‘Support norms: Willingness to give and willingness to receive’, The Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands (SCP, U-20060239) (€40,000)
2006-2007 Co-investigator, ‘European landscape of variations in intergenerational solidarity (ELVIS)”, European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (VS/2006/0684) (€110,000)
2006-2009 Co-investigator, ‘Major ageing and gender issues in Europe (MAGGIE)’, European Commission (EC, 028571) (€ 2,300,000)
2004-2008 Principal investigator, ‘Antecedents and consequences of childlessness’,
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, 457-03-012) (€190,000) 2004-2008 Co-investigator, ‘From generation to generation: Parents’ work-family patterns and
the role of paid and unpaid labor in their adult children’s life courses’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, 457-03-006) (€190,000)
2001-2007 Principal investigator, ‘Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS): A multi-actor, multi-method panel survey on solidarity in family relationships’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Major Investment Grant (NWO, 480-10-009) (€3,995,000)
2001-2005 Co-investigator, ‘Diversity in late life’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Programme Grant (NWO, 490-24-161) (€ 2,500,000)
2001-2003 Principal investigator, ‘Effectiveness of loneliness interventions among older adults’, Stichting Sluyterman van Loo (€140,000)
2000-2003 Co-investigator, ‘Determinants of chronic good health and chronic ill health’, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC, 828-1999-1000) 1999-2003 Co-investigator, ‘Network for integrated European population studies’, European
Commission (HPSE-CT-1999-00005) (€220,000)
1998-2002 Co-investigator, ‘Causes and consequences of divorce in the Netherlands from the ‘40s and onwards’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Programme Grant (NWO, 97-05-04) (€ 2,500,000)
1998-1999 Co-investigator, ‘Changing lives: Charting the life courses of the 1900-1970 Dutch birth cohorts’, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR, 890199) 1998-1999 Co-investigator, ‘What if grandma has a job: The future of informal childcare’,
Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS/DSB/ASB-71898) and Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment (SZW/A&O 32-890004)
1997-1998 Principal investigator, ‘Older adults at risk of becoming socially isolated’, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS, DOB/OAO-U-975606) (€35,000)
1996-1997 Co-investigator, ‘Linking population, labour, and social protection: A European perspective’, European Commission (DG-V 96 102035 - 05E01) (€65,000) 1995 Workshop ‘Childlessness in late life’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific
Research (NWO / ISW 95011) (€18,000)
1991-1996 Co-investigator, ‘Older adults’ living arrangements and social networks’, NESTOR, the Netherlands Program for Research on Aging (€2,195,000)
1986-1988 Principal investigator, ‘Primary relationships and social emotional well-being in late life’, Queen Juliana Foundation (KJF 6962) (€140,000)
1985-1989 Principal investigator, ‘The importance of friendships for older adult well-being’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO, 500-277-001) (€500,000) Service to the profession:
2014 Member Scientific Advisory ‘Active Ageing – Pathways and Outcomes’, Norwegian Social Research
2014- Member Scientific Advisory Board ‘Migration Law as a Family Matter’, VU University 2014 Advisor Rector Bocconi University, Milan
2014 Advisor Faculty of Law, Economics, Governance and Organization, Utrecht University
2014- Member of the Advisory Board of Teylers Museum, Haarlem
2013 Member of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Committee for the Mid-term evaluation of Netspar, Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement
2013 Member of the ESRC-NWO-DFG-ARN-NSFC delegation scoping European-Chinese collaboration on research into ‘Understanding population change’
2013 External assessor, Faculty of Social & Human Sciences, University of Southampton 2013 Advisor UK Economic and Social Research Council, Mid-Term Review of the Centre
for Population Change Southampton
2013 Member National Advisory Group EU Horizon programme ‘Health, demographic change and well being’
2013 Member Consolidator Grant Panel European Research Council ‘Environment, space and population’
2013- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Population Policy Database, Max Planck Society Germany
2013- Member Steering Group FP7 Collaborative Project (Large-scale integrating project) ‘FamiliesAndSocieties’
2012 Advisor School of Management and Governance, University of Twente 2012 Member International Jury of the Austrian Academy of Science for the New
Frontiers Groups Funding Programme
2012 Member Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences – Lorentz Center Advisory Board
2012 Member of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Teaching Award Committee 2012 Member of the Erasmus University Rotterdam Professor Lambers Prize for Master
Student Excellence
2012 Advisor for the European Research Council Starting Grant Panel 'Environment, space and population'
2012- Member Council of Advisors of Population Europe
2012- Member Advisory Board for the Data Collection on Legal Arrangements of Divorced and Separated Dutch Parents
2012 Member of the Peer Review Panel of the European Research Area in Ageing 2012 Chair of the MaGW Evaluation Committee 2012-2015 Change Studies Netherlands
Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
2012- Member of the Council of Advisors of Population Europe
2012- Member Expert Group Developing an Active Ageing Index (United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe/European Commission, DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion)
2012 Advisor for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2012 Advisor for the Fulbright Scholar Program
2012 Advisor for the Czech Science Foundation
2011- Member Advisory Board of the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Surveys in the Netherlands (CILSNL)
2011- Chair of the Board of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
2011- Chair of the International Assessment Committee Academy Professorships (KNAW) 2011-2012 Member of the Theme Expert Group New NORFACE Joint Research Programme on
‘Welfare State Futures” (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe, NORFACE)
2011-2013 Member of the Advisory Board of the Netherlands Central Bureau of Statistics (NCBS) Spearhead on the Life Course
2011- Chair of the Jury for the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science
2010-2012 Guest Editor Demographic Research (special issue on intergenerational family relationships in ageing societies)
2010-2011 Member of the European Commission panel evaluating the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
2010-2014 Member of the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Scholarships for Young Artists and Scholars Grant Committee
2010- Chair of the Examination Board of the Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2010 Chair of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) jury awarding the prize for best highschool student project in the area of culture and economics
2009-2010 Scientific Advisor for the Netherlands Institute for Social Research (SCP) report on families
2009- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board Jan Brouwer Fonds 2009-2011 Member of the Board of the Dutch Social Sciences Council (SWR)
2009-2011 Guest Editor Journal of Social and Personal Relationships (special issue on personal relationships in late life)
2009 External reviewer for the Department of Sociology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
2008-2011 Member of the MaGW Medium Investment Grant Committee, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
2008-2011 Member of the Social Sciences Division of the Research School Accreditation Committee (ECOS)
2006-2007 Guest Editor Journal of Family Issues (special issue on childlessness in late life) 2007- Member of the Board of the Sluyterman Van Loo Foundation
2007- Member of the Consortium Board of the United Nations Generations and Gender Programme
2007-2010 Member of the Commission on Improving and Modernizing Career Policy of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences
2007-2012 Expert Advisor European Research Area in Ageing (ERA-AGE)
2007-2012 Member of the Council of Scientists for FUTURAGE - A Road Map for Ageing Research
2007- Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Population Ageing
2006-2011 Convenor of the Social Sciences Section of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (MW/KNAW)
2006 Program Reviewer International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) 2006 Expert Advisor McArthur Foundation Program on Aging
2006-2007 Member of the Advisory Board of the Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS/KNAW) 2006-2008 Member of the Commission Forum Function of the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences
2006-2008 Member of the Board of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)
2006-2010 Member of the Editorial Board of Personal Relationships (Cambridge University Press) 2006-2008 Member of the Open competition grant program of the Social Sciences Division of
the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (MaGW / NWO) 2005-2011 Member of the Netherlands Body on Scientific Integrity (LOWI) 2005 Advisor to the Committee on Aging Policy of the Dutch Parliament
2004-2005 Member Conference Committee Scientific symposium Silver Jubilee Queen Beatrix 2004-2007 Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 2004-2006 Member of the Committee on the Future of Sociology in the Netherlands, Social
Sciences Council, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (SWR / KNAW)
2004-2006 Member of the MaGW Innovational Research Incentives Scheme VIDI Grant Committee, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
2003-2009 Member of the Program committee ‘Family relationships: The ties that bind’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
2001-2003 Member of the Program committee ‘Successful ageing’, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
1999-2005 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of SISWO / Institute for Social Sciences Program
1993-2003 Representative for the Netherlands of the Network for Integrated Population Studies (NIEPS)
1998-2001 Coordinator for the Netherlands of the International Network of Research on Older Care (INREC)
1991-1999 Executive secretary of the Southern Steering Committee of the NWO Priority Program ‘Population Issues’
1995-1998 Member of ESR/NWO review committees
1994-1998 Member of the Board of the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships (ISSPR)
1991-2012 Editor Mens en Maatschappij (editor in chief as of 2001) 1989-1992 Editor Gezin: Tijdschrift voor Primaire Leefvormen Ad hoc reviewer:
Journals: Social Forces, European Sociological Review Journal of Marriage and Family, Journal of Family Issues, Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, Advances in Life Course Research, Gerontologist, Social Science and Medicine, Journal of Psychology, Population, Ageing & Society, European Journal of Population, , Canadian Journal of Ageing, European Journal of Ageing, Journal of Family History, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Ageing Studies, Research on Aging, , International Journal of Aging and Human Development, Psychology and Health, Journal of European Social Policy
Granting agencies: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences, European Research Council, Israeli Science Foundation, Czech Science
Foundation, Fulbright Scholar Program, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, German Research Council, Fund for Scientific Research Flanders, Austrian Science Fund, Economic and Social Research Council of Britain, Estonian Research Council
Professional associations:
Netherlands Sociological Association (NSV) American Sociological Association (ASA) Netherlands Demographic Society (NVD) Netherlands Society of Gerontology (NVG)
Netherlands Network of Female Professors (LNVH) European Association for Population Studies (EAPS) National Council Family Relationships (NCFR) Gerontological Society of America (GSA)
International Association for Relationship Research (IARR) Work Family Researchers Network (WFRN)
Teaching:
Courses developed and taught*
2000 The life course and aging (Department of Social Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
2004-2009 Families, generations and demographic change (Department of Sociology, Universiteit Utrecht)
2009- Research methods (Department of Sociology, Erasmus University Rotterdam) 2010- Redistributing, participating, and caring (Master, Department of Sociology, Erasmus
University Rotterdam)
* Student evaluations consistently in the upper range of rating scales (available upon request) Guest lectures
1980-1982 Personality / Group Processes / Social Cognition (Department of Psychology, University of Toronto)
1989 Social networks and support (Department of Social Gerontology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
1991-1993 Theory-driven empirical research (Graduate Studies in Demography, PDOD, Amsterdam)
2001 Divorce (Department of Sociology, Universiteit Utrecht)
2004-2005 Families and the life course (Research Master Sociology, Universiteit Utrecht) 2007-2008 Marriage (Actuarieel Instituut, Utrecht)
2009-2011 Multi-actor research on families (University College, Utrecht) 2010 Intergenerational family ties (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)
2012 Social policy, gender and the life course (Nordic Centre of Excellence in Welfare Research, Oslo)
PhD thesis supervision
1996 J. Smits (Sociology, Radboud Universiteit; member evaluation committee) 2002 H. Bras (Sociology, Universiteit Utrecht; member evaluation committee) 2003 H. Matsuo (Spatial Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; member evaluation
committee)
2002-2008 I. Doorten (ICS-Universiteit Utrecht) 2002-2006 H. de Valk (NIDI/ICS-Universiteit Utrecht) 2003-2007 M. Voorpostel (ICS-Universiteit Utrecht) 2003-2007 R. van Gaalen (NIDI/ICS-Universiteit Utrecht) 2004-2011 M. Stuifbergen (Medicine, Universiteit Utrecht)
2004 T. Fischer (Sociology, Radboud Universiteit; member evaluation committee) 2005 M. Khatun (Spatial Sciences, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen; member evaluation
committee)
2005 A. Machielse (Social Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht; member evaluation committee) 2005-2009 A. van Putten (NIDI/ICS-Universiteit Utrecht)
2005-2010 R. Keizer (NIDI/ICS-Universiteit Utrecht)
2006-2008 V. Bordone (Max Planck Institute of Demography, Rostock) 2006-2012 T. Geurts (Psychology & Health, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 2008-2013 N. Schenk (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
2008 E.-M. Merz (Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; member evaluation committee) 2008 M. Pollman (Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; member evaluation
committee)
2009 I. de Goede (Sociology, Universiteit Utrecht; member evaluation committee)
2009 M. Guiaux (Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; member evaluation committee) 2009 M. M. Sánchez Rodrigues (Universidad de Salamanca; member evaluation
committee)
2010 W. Kalmijn (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; member evaluation committee)
2010 A. Roeters (ICS-Universiteit Utrecht; member evaluation committee) 2010 M. Berg (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; member evaluation
committee)
2010 N. Newall (Psychology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg; external evaluator) 2010-2014 M. Fleischmann (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
2011 B. Pouwels (Economics, Universiteit Utrecht, member evaluation committee) 2011 A. Bergsma (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, member evaluation
committee)
2011 L. Heylen (Social Sciences, Universiteit van Antwerpen, member evaluation committee)
2011- M. Jappens (Interface Demography, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, with J. Van Bavel) 2011 J. Mandemakers (Sociology, Universiteit van Tilburg; member evaluation committee) 2011 K. Täht (Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; member evaluation committee) 2011 J. Raven (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; member evaluation
2011- T. van den Broek (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) 2012-2013 I. Saris-van Bijnen (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) 2012- S. de Hoon (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) 2012- L. Abuladze (Demography, Tallinn University, with M. Klesment)
2013 B. Suanet (Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; member evaluation committee) 2013 S. Vanassche (Center for Sociological Research, Leuven University; member evaluation
committee)
2013 N. Lucassen (Medicine, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; member evaluation committee)
2013 G. J. A. A. Spijker (Medicine, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; member evaluation committe)
2013 G. Rodenburg (Medicine, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam; member evaluation committee)
2013- J. Ooijevaar (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, with H. Entzinger) 2013- B. Ory (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
2013- W. Quite (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) 2013- N. Conkova (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
2014 B. Struminskaya (Social Science Research Methods, Utrecht University; member evaluation committee)
2014 M. Verlinden (Medicine, Erasmus University Rotterdam; member evaluation committee)
2014- C. Roobol (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) 2014- J. Coenders (Sociology, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
