Silke Vereeken
Research Associate
Profile
Biography
Silke is a health psychologist with a specialisation in clinical child and youth psychology, and further experience in sports psychology research, physiotherapy, sexology, and epidemiology.
Silke has been assisting and teaching on multiple modules of the department’s Masters in Public Health and is completing a PhD investigating Syndemics in vulnerable populations (youth and people with SMI) with a focus on the role of health behaviours in health experience.
Qualifications
- BSc in Psychology (UvA, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- MSc in Health Psychology (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)
Departmental roles
- Teaching Assistant on Masters of Public Health
University roles
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Research Ethics and Governance Committee
Research
Overview
Silke’s current research interests centre around global public health, with a focus on the possible ways to encourage and support health behaviours through social prescribing, and the role of exposure to nature in health
Projects
Research group(s)
Teaching
Undergraduate
- Department of Psychology, module practicals, 2022-2023
Postgraduate
- Department of Health Sciences, Masters of Public Health, 2022-2024
Other teaching
- Department of Psychology, Summer School programme 2023 + 2024