Assistant professor
As an assistant professor at Utrecht University, Rianne is an impact-driven researcher on family dynamics, child participation, and children's psychosocial adjustment after parental separation or divorce. She's interested in both qualitative research methods, such as longitudinal survey research on different time scales (micro, meso, macro) and meta-analyses; as well as qualitative methods, such as interviews and observation research. Currently, she's mainly involved in (1) An interdisciplinary project on children's participation in divorce-related decisions, together with colleagues from Pedagogics and from Family law; (2) Research on the effectiveness of interventions in a divorce context; and (3) the supervision of a PhD-project: It takes two: Studying parent-adolescent interactions as dyadic, dynamic, and micro-level processes.
As a teacher, she's involved in the Bachelor, Master, and Research Master programs within the department of Education & Pedagogy. Her tasks include supervising theses and research internships, (co-)coordinating three courses, giving lectures, and she's a tutor and the clinical coordinator within the Researchmaster DaSCA.
Family break-up, system break-down
In 2022 Rianne obtained her PhD at Utrecht University. In her research project, Rianne aimed to examine processes that explain how and under what circumstances family dynamics affect children’s psychosocial adjustment over time in recently divorced families. Based on family systems theory, multiple interrelated processes of all family subsystems and their dynamics were examined by linking behaviours on a micro- (observations), meso- (daily diaries), and macro-timescale. The doctoral dissertation can be found online: https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/423783
Additional info
- Website Luister! [in Dutch]
- Website 'Gezinsrelaties na Scheiding' [in Dutch]