Bram Peper

Bram Peper (1966) studied sociology at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) and the University of Maryland at College Park (USA). In 1998 he received his Ph.D at the Law department of the EUR. His thesis “Sociale Problemen en de Moderne Samenleving. Een Cultuursociologische Beschouwing [Social Problems and Modern Society. A Treatise in the Sociology of Culture]” concerns the genesis of the idea of social problems, and the sociological treatise of this idea.

Since 1997 he worked as contract researcher for two research projects: an evaluation of experiments with community mediation in the Netherlands; and an evaluation of a repressive and pro-active approach towards ‘drugs runners’ in Rotterdam (Kralingen-Crooswijk). In 2000 he became postdoc researcher at the department of sociology/women’s studies, EUR. He  works at three research projects:

1. "Changes in Work and Life" (CWL) a project regarding implementation, utilization of work/life policies and the integration of work and private life. Together with Dr. Laura den Dulk (Utrecht University), he collects data in seven organizations (private and public) located in three different countries. They also conduct a vignette study on managerial decision-making regarding the use of work/life policies. (2001-2007)

2. An EC research project on “Gender, Parenthood and the Changing European Workplace: young adults negotiating the work-family boundary”: TRANSITIONS (coordinated by prof. Sue Lewis (MMU, UK)), together with Dr. Laura den Dulk and Prof. Anneke van Doorne-Huiskes (Utrecht University). (2003-2006)

3. Together with drs. Claartje ter Hoeven (Twente University), he conducts a research on absense due to sickness in a subsidiary of large multinational consultancy firm in the Netherlands. (2005-2008)

Since 2004 he works as assistant professor at the sociology master Labour, Organization, and Management. Next to teaching, he supervises a research project on the bonding and bridging social capital of Maroccan women in a neighbourhood in Rotterdam (the Netherlands). This research is carried out by drs. Marguerite van den Berg and financed by STIP (2005-2006). And he supervises, together with prof.dr. Romke van der Veen, drs. Fabian Dekker on his PhD. project on flexibilisation and social security (2006-2009).