Deborah De Moortel
Biography
I am a professor at the Department of Sociology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. I received my PhD in Sociology in 2016 (title: Mental well-being & employment quality in Europe. Analysing gender and social class differences from a cross-national comparative perspective). I worked at the Institute of Medical Sociology of the Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany from 2017 to 2019. There I collaborated with the research group, which founded the Effort-Reward Imbalance model, to study the link between (involuntary) working hours and health.
Currently, I am a FWO senior postdoctoral researcher investigating the link between employment trajectories and mental health. Besides my postdoc projects, I have been involved in projects examining unemployment and mortality using the Belgian census, the transfer of knowledge about health prevention and promotion at the Belgian work, building a typology of self-employed in Europe, etc. I am a member of the Compassionate Communities Center of Expertise (COCO) and the co-coördinator the Horizon2020 funded project; EU-CoWork project. Building compassionate workplaces in Europe.
Research projects:
Quality of employment trajectories and mental health: the role of gender and social norms
The manifestation of non-standard employment arrangements in a comparative global perspective (PhD of Julie Vanderleyden)
Research keywords:
Job quality, employment quality, mental well-being, labour market inequalities, cross-national comparative research, gender, social class, compassionate communities
Location
Pleinlaan 5
1050 Elsene
Belgium
