Deborah De Moortel
Biography
I am an assistant research professor at the Sustainable Work Research Unit of the Brussels Institute for Social and Population Studies (BRISPO) at 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.
Currently, my work focuses on the development and evaluation of workplace interventions for the prevention of poor mental health among workers, using participatory and stakeholder-engaged methods. I am a member of the Compassionate Communities Center of Expertise (COCO) and the co-coördinator of the Horizon Europe funded EU-CoWork project: Building compassionate workplaces in Europe and the HELIOS-VUB Chair for mental well-being at work.
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
