Melissa Ceuterick
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Melissa Ceuterick is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University. She is originally trained as an anthropologist (MA Comparative Sciences of Cultures 2002) and holds an additional degree in Development Cooperation (2004). She obtained her PhD in Medical Biosciences from the University of Bradford (UK) in 2009 with a Leverhulme-funded study on the use of traditional medicine among Andean communities before and after migration. Upon working as a resident professor for Duke University’s Global Health Study Abroad Program in Costa Rica, she returned to Belgium in 2013 and coordinated several applied research projects on the nexus between health and migration at the former Expertise Centre on Migration and Integration. In 2017 she came back to her alma mater to combine her passion for academic research and teaching as a doctoral-assistant at the Sociology Department.
Currently she is partially affiliated as a research associate to the Ghent Health Psychology Lab (PP05) and HEDERA Health and Demographic Research (PS04). In this dual capacity she is both conducting and supervising interdisciplinary research on stigma, health and the sociology of pharmaceuticals (funded by FWO, BOF and BELSPO). Methodologically she has ample experience in qualitative methods, particularly discourse analysis, although she equally bridges paradigms in several mixed-methods projects.
She is the co-supervisor of several PhD students, lecturer-in charge of the course in ‘Health Sociology’ for the interuniversity Bachelor in Social Sciences (Ghent University- VUB) and is co-teaching in other courses at bachelor and master level (Seminar on Health Sociology and Social Demography, Sociology of Health and Illness, Societal Impact of Medications). As an adept of the Community Service Learning teaching method, she collaborates with different societal and public organisations. In addition, she coordinates the KoZ-network for qualitative research. Since 2023 she is an elected member of the advisory board of the European Society for Health and Medical Sociology.
She is the proud mom of two young boys.
Interests
- Health-related stigma
- The sociology of pharmaceuticals
- The impact of migration on (mental) health
- Health and identity
Fleur Baert
Fleur graduated as a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University.
Maya Braun
Maya obtained her Master of Science in Clinical Psychology at Ghent University. After collecting experience in different areas of psychology during her student jobs, internships and theses, she joined the Health Psychology Lab of Ghent University as a doctoral student
Geert Crombez
Geert Crombez is Professor of Health Psychology in the Department of Experimental-Health Psychology at Ghent University.
Lena De Bonte
Lena obtained a Master of Science in criminological sciences (2021) and sociology (2023) from Ghent University. During her Bachelor's studies, she developed a keen interest in opioid use and the related stigma
Marie De Breucker
I obtained my Master of Science in Theoretical and Experimental Psychology at Ghent University in 2021. During my six month research internship at the Ghent Experimental Psychiatry Lab, where I investigated an attentional bias to food in patients with anorexia nervosa, my interest in research was further enhanced, especially involving clinical populations.
