Janneke van Mens-Verhulst is a social scientist who taught in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology at Utrecht University, until 2006. Her research activities within the Netherlands' Research School of Women's Studies were in the area of Gender and Health. For more than a decade she was member of the board of the Dutch Foundation for Women and Health Research. From 1995 until 2007 Van Mens-Verhulst held an endowed chair "Feminist Social and Health Care" at the University for Humanist Studies in Utrecht. After her prepensioning she is still active as free-lance writer, researcher and teacher.
Nowadays, she takes efforts to link the intersectionality approach with health (care) research, in cooperation with professor Lorraine Radtke from Calgary University. During the 7th Feminist Conference (in June 2009) she organized the Round Table `Daughtering and Mothering Revisited', together with profesor Liesbeth Woertman of Utrecht University. In 2008 she has edited the history of Dutch feminist health care, together with professor dr. B. Waaldijk from Utrecht University. (See also the video production). She is a member of the Editorial group of the Dutch Gender Studies Journal.
Van Mens-Verhulst has been involved in Feminist or Women's (Mental) Health Care since 1981. Almost inevitably her interest has extended from sex/gender differences to multiple social differences in health care, i.e. diversity.
Her methodological interests included exploring the possibilities of computer simulation for indicating a promising avenue for prospective research. Her theoretical interests still include on the one hand, theories of self-regulation (she chaired the national group 'Social Cybernetics') and, on the other, a constructivist approach to clinical and health psychology.
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