Through scientific research, these research projects contribute to various issues surrounding homelessness, further development of homelessness shelters, protected housing and a soft landing in the neighborhood. These issues are raised by various municipalities, regions and partners from local professional practice in the Netherlands.and studied by means of an integrated research design for research, policy and practice.
In our research projects we gain experiences from various perspectives at client, executive, policy and administrative levels. We often do this on the basis of different measurement moments over several months and/or years. The client’s needs are the starting point. To this end, we work closely with trained interviewers with lived experience on the topic of this research. Our trained peer-support workers are involved during various phases of the research process. The aim is to learn jointly (interim) on the basis of this (experienced) knowledge and to provide input for changes in policy and practice.
From 2020 to 2024, the The Hague research project has been carried out by the UvA. For more information, please look at Regio Den Haag – nienkeboesveldt.com and the UvA profile page of Dr. N.F. (Nienke) Boesveldt – University of Amsterdam (uva.nl)
From 2023 research will be carried out in the Flevoland region by Nienke Boesveldt, Merel Otto and Nikkie Buskermolen from the Nienke Boesveldt Research Institute. The research institute aims to monitor national progress in the development of protected housing (BW) and homelesness shelters (MO), in combination with sharing knowledge in practice. The Institute tries to achieve its goal, among other things, by conducting independent scientific research with and about people with homelessness, mental health problems and/or addiction. The Nienke Boesveldt Research Institute is an independent legal entity, therefore independent of the University of Amsterdam, and achieves its goals by following developments, partly through research in Dutch regions in close collaboration with the academic world. More information about the Flevoland project can be found here Regio Flevoland – nienkeboesveldt.com. Contact with the research institute can be obtained via nienke@nienkeboesveldt.com.
FEANTSA’s European Observatory on Homelessness presents the 15th Annual European Research Conference on Homelessness. The conference is made up of various online sessions, including one of our research team. Nienke Boesveldt, Juul Mulder and Marte Read more
On 20 november 2019 Focus Ireland, an Irish non-profit organization who delivers services for homeless people and people who are at risk of losing their house, organises a conference on peer-research in the field of Read more
Researchers Nienke Boesveldt and Emmely van Dijk will speak at the Housing First Partners Conference in Seattle (WA) March 2020 In March our researchers Nienke Boesveldt and Emmely van Dijk will speak at the biannual Read more