Trudie Knijn

Trudie Knijn is full professor of Interdisciplinary Social Science at Utrecht University since 2003. She studied sociology at the University of Tilburg (1971 – 1978) and held a position as junior researcher in cultural psychology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (1978 – 1985). From 1985 on she is working at the department of Interdisciplinary Social Science of Utrecht University where she coordinates the research programme Social Policy, Interventions and Integration (SOPINS) and the master programme Social Policy and Social interventions.

From 1993 to 2003 she was the coordinator of the European network on Theory and Methodology on Women, Welfare State and Citizenship. She is a member of the board of ESPAnet (The European Social Policy Analysis network) and chair of the Dutch ESPAnet network. She is also member of the executive committee of RECWOWE (see below), member of the editorial board of Social Policy and Administration and member of the advisory board of Social Politics.

Her current research projects include:

• The Netherlands Kinship Panel Study (NKPS) a large scale quantitative and qualitative family panel among 10.000 Dutch people and their family members. Coordination: Pearl Dykstra, researchers: Matthijs Kalmijn, Trudie Knijn, Aafke Komter, Aat Liefbroer, Clara Mulder. Financed by NWO investment large programme.
• Reconciling Work and Welfare (RECWOWE) a 6th framework European network in which 27 European universities participate to integrate welfare state and labour market studies.
• Work under Pressure (WOUPS), a cross-national study in 7 European countries on the reconciliation of work and care for children and the elderly. Financed by the French ARN and NWO/ NKPS.
• Pathways to work (Re-integratie verbeteronderzoek), a study on the influence of the social, institutional and work environment on re-entering the labour market of welfare recipients. In this project the staff of SOPINS cooperates with researchers of the Coronel Institute (AMC) and the Hugo Sinzheimer Institute (UvA). Financed by the Stichting Institute GAK.    

She has published in a wide rage of international journals, such as Social Politics, Social policy and Administration, Administration and Society, Journal of the Marriageand the Family and Journal of Family Issues. Among her books are Solidarity Between the Sexes and the Generations (with Aafke Komter, Edward Elgar, 2004); Working Mothers in Europe (with Ute Gerhard and Anja Weckwert, Edward Elgar, 2005); Policy, People and the New Professional (with Jan Willen Duyvendak and Monique Kremer, Amsterdam University Press, 2006).