Emelien Lauwerier
Emelien Lauwerier is an assistant professor in the Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. She is also an affiliated independent academic staff member of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at Ghent University and primarily working within the research units ‘Equity in (primary) health care’ and ‘Family Medicine and Primary Care’. She obtained her PhD within the field of Health Psychology investigating coping with chronic pain in clinical populations. Currently, her research focuses on health promotion and health behavior change in vulnerable populations, such as those suffering from chronic illness and people in socially vulnerable situations. She also studies how to improve health communication (motivational interviewing) and behavior change within communities and health care practice, and uses a theory-based, process approach in setting up, implementing and evaluating interventions, often rooted in scientific realist thinking.
Interests
- Health promotion
- Motivation and Behavior change
- Chronic illness
- Adjustment & Resilience
- Inequity in health (care)
- Community oriented health care
- Interdisciplinary collaboration and identity
Meet the team
Meet our enthousiastic and lively team of professors, post-doctoral researchers, phd students and research assistants
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.
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.
