Leonieke Boendermaker
Professor in Child and Youth Social Care
Prof. Dr. Leonieke Boendermaker (1961) is a professor in Child and Youth Social Care at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) and professor by special appointment of Implementation Challenges in Youth Care at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Her work focuses on the development, implementation, quality and effectiveness of interventions, with a special focus on residential care and interventions for young people with serious behavioural problems.
Expertises
Youth care | Effective interventions | Evidence-based practice | Implementation | Secure and judicial youth care | Youth crime and behavioural disorders
Contact
- E-mail: l.boendermaker@hva.nl
- LinkedIn: Leonieke Boendermaker on LinkedIn
About Leonieke Boendermaker
Leonieke Boendermaker (1961) studied Social Pedagogy at the University of Amsterdam and obtained an additional master's degree in Methods & Techniques of Social Scientific Research at Leiden University. Leonieke obtained her PhD in 1999 with a thesis on the population and working methods in juvenile detention centres at Utrecht University. She worked as a researcher at the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice, at the De Lindenhorst State Institution and at the youth department of the Netherlands Institute for Care & Welfare, later known as the Netherlands Youth Institute (NJi).
Since February 2010, she has been a professor in Child and Youth Social Care at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. In 2021, she was also appointed professor by special appointment of Implementation Challenges in Youth Care at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of the University of Amsterdam.
Ancillary positions
- Professor of Implementation Challenges in Youth Care, University of Amsterdam
- Editor-in-chief of the 'Jeugd in Ontwikkeling' magazine