Research Centre Social Innovation

LIA VAN DOORN

Lecturer Innovation of Social Work

Curricilum Vitae

Lia van Doorn

Dr. Lia van Doorn, PhD, is professor since 2007. She studied pedagogy at the Utrecht University before working as a researcher at the General Social Sciences Vakgroep of the UU. Between 1994 and 2007 she was senior project manager at the Dutch Institute for Care and Well-being(NIZW) at the Local Policy department. She gained her PhD at the University of Utrecht with the PhD dissertation ‘Een tijd op straat’ (English: ‘On the streets for a while’). She participated in a number of international networks in the field of care and well-being. In 2005 she was guest researcher at the Institut National d’Etudes Demographiques (INED) in Paris.