Theo van Tilburg
Short biography
Personal information: Theo
van Tilburg (PhD in Social Sciences in 1988) is professor of Sociology and Social
Gerontology at the Department of Sociology, director of the Graduate School
Social Sciences, director of the research program ‘Participation in Society
(PARIS): Social Context of Aging’, and board member and senior researcher of
the ‘Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam’, an ongoing interdisciplinary study
into aspects of aging since 1991.
Research: His research
focuses on the social functioning of older adults, in particular the family;
the personal network; social support, and informal help and care; and
loneliness. These topics are studied from the perspectives of individual change
trajectories and societal change across birth cohorts. He also studies
interventions to improve one’s social living conditions. Van Tilburg published
more than 250 scientific articles, book chapters, professional publications and
publications aimed at the general public. His work is widely cited (H = 41 in
ISI and 68 in Google Scholar). He supervised PhD theses (twenty three completed
and two in progress). He received a five-year fellowship of the Royal
Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (1989), and various large grants from
NWO and ZonMw. In that research he collaborates with researchers from various
other faculties of Vrije Universiteit (e.g. epidemiology, psychiatry, health
sciences) and with researchers from universities of applied sciences (HvA,
HAN).
Teaching: He taught various
courses, both at the bachelor and master level, and post graduate, and both in
sociology and in research methods. Currently he teaches Introduction to
sociology: Modern Societies, and a course on multivariate methods.
Academic service: He was
multiple times member of the faculty board and served as vice-dean and in the
portfolio research and portfolio education. He was external member of the
approval panel of a MSc program in the UK. For research he had a variety of
functions, such as: associate editor and board member of various international
journals; advisor in various research projects; chair of the VENI Selection
Committee MaGW; chair of the Open competition Selection Committee MaGW; chair
of the Academy of Finland’s review panel Social Sciences; member of the Appeal
Committee NWO/ZonMw.
Ancillary activities: He is
member of the approval committee Interventions in the domain of Societal Support,
Participation and Safety. He is Fellow of the Gerontological Society of
America. He advised the national Coalition against loneliness, the municipality
of Amsterdam, and the Minister of Health on strategies against loneliness.
Personal
Curriculum Vitae
Personal page at NARCIS: http://www.narcis.info/person/RecordID/PRS1242162/
Personal page at Vrije Universiteit: https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/theo-van-tilburg
Personal page at http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1005-6732
Personal page at https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=7003820557
LinkedIn: http://lnkd.in/bCWQWHW
In the news
Selected reports and interviews – magazines,
(national) newspapers, TV (in Dutch )
Publications
References to all scientific and professional publications
- with abstracts (pdf) and without abstracts (pdf)
- with calculation of citation metrics based on ISI (www.researcherid.com/rid/F-1269-2010)
- with calculation of citation metrics based on Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=VVoZ-ZIAAAAJ)
- as available in Pure (https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/theo-van-tilburg/publications/)
Selected scientific publications in PubMed
Research
Supervision
of PhD projects
Living arrangements and Social Networks of
older adults (Leefvormen en sociale netwerken van ouderen; LSN)
Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA)
The
Social Context of Aging (SoCA)
Loneliness Scale
Manual (updated from the 1999 edition) – Word – pdf
Email and phone
email theo.van.tilburg at vu.nl
phone (+31) 20 598 6870
Mailing address
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Faculty of Social Sciences ( Faculteit Sociale Wetenschappen - FSW)
Dept. of Sociology ( afdeling Sociologie)
De Boelelaan 1105, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Visiting address
De Boelelaan 1105, Main
Building, Room 2A78
Updated: 24-2-2022