Dr. Jan Willem (Wim) Nieuwenboom

     Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

    • 2009: Specialist Psychologist for Health Psychology FSP (Federation of Swiss Psychologists)
    • 2006: PhD on “The recording of reading activities in children with the help of structured diaries” with Prof Dr François Stoll, Faculty of Philosophy I, University of Zurich, Psychological Institute
    • 1989: Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Utrecht, Netherlands

    Main focus

    Teaching

    • Research methods and statistics
    • Mental impairment
    • Substance-independent addictions
    • Addiction epidemiology
    • Developmental psychology
    • Health and integration

    Continuing education

    • Resilience
    • Quantitative methods and statistics

    Research

    • Health and integration/migration
    • Health in the family context
    • Dependency/addiction
    • School and extracurricular support

    Services

    • CAS Research in the Social Sciences, University of Zurich in cooperation with the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, quantitative methods

    Further information

    • Member of the Commission, Employee Participation Organisation of the School of Social Work (MOM-HSA)
    • Board member of the Swiss Society for Health Psychology (SGGPsy)
    • National Delegate for Switzerland in the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS)
    • Member of the Federation of Swiss Psychologists (FSP)
    • Member of the D/A/CH Network for Health Promotion
    • Member of the association chronischkrank.ch, Switzerland
    • Member and co-founder of NCBI Switzerland (National Coalition Building Institute, Switzerland)

    Review activities

    • 2016: Review Panel of 7th European Conference for Social Work Research, Aalborg University.19 – 21 April 2017
    • 2015: Review Panel of 6th European Conference for Social Work Research, Lisbon, Portugal. 30 March - 1 April 2016
    • 2015: Review Panel of 29th Conference of the EHPS: Principles of Behaviour Change in Health and Illness, Limassol, Cyprus. 1 - 5 September 2015

    Publications and projects