Anneke Vedder (she/her) is a Junior Assistant Professor, licensed Psychotherapist (BIG 99917459616, House of Psychology ) and Neuropsychologist, who joined the Clinical Psychology Department of Utrecht University in 2013.
By working together with her students, she quickly came to realize that the stigma of mental ill-health also manifest itself in the way we educate our psychology-students. Therefore, she started to normalize talking about mental wellbeing in her classes and embarked on her PhD-journey (supervised by Prof. Dr. Paul Boelen), focussing on two emotional experiences that most of us can relate to: loneliness and bereavement. Inspired by, and together with, Prof. Dr. Margaret Stroebe & Dr. Henk Schut, she has set herself the goal of exploring these joint interests scientifically.
Anneke aims to put her knowlegde into practice in her active membership of the Taskforce Student-Wellbeing and Caring Universities. Together with her students, she has co-created peer support groups for bereaved individuals (Good Mourning) and those that seek meaningful connections (Conscious Connections) at Utrecht University. This initative has been awarded with the Social Impact Award.
Her mission as lecturer, researcher and therapist is to contribute to a society in which mental health literacy and self-care are common sense.