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Liesbeth De Donder

  • category
    professor
  • research group
    Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab)
  • keywords
    demography & population
    education
    health

Liesbeth De Donder is professor Adult Educational Sciences, and director of the Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab).

Liesbeth De Donder is Professor Adult Educational Sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel where she teaches  courses on cpmmunity development, care and inclusion, social work and research.  Her research focuses on ageing in place, caring communities, and exclusion, and has a particular interest in participatory methodologies (peer-research, co-construction and action research).

She has received the VUB Excellent PhD Supervision Award in 2021, and has published more than 100 papers in leading peer-reviewed journals in gerontology, care, education and social work.