Joeke Kuyvenhoven has a background in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences with a specialisation in socio-spatial processes and inequalities. After graduating from the Research Master Social Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a researcher at the Amsterdam Bureau for Research, Information and Statistics studying educational careers and inequalities.
Her main research interests include residential mobility, neighbourhood effects and social inequalities. At NIDI she worked on her doctoral studies for the MYMOVE project where she studied the impact of childhood residential mobility on adult outcomes. She specifically focused on differential patterns and consequences of internal migration and the exposure to neighbourhood disadvantage of immigrant children.
July 2024 she successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled ‘When moving matters – Unpacking patterns and consequences of childhood residential mobility‘ at the University of Groningen.
As of August 2024 she is no longer employed at NIDI. She is currently employed at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).
Expertise
Inequalities, residential mobility, segregation, contextual effects
