Liesbet Heyse is associate professor of Sociology at the University of Groningen. She studies how public, nonprofit and private organizations attempt to address societal challenges through their operations. She is interested in the societal effects and performance of these organizations in relation to their governance structures and organizational practices. She applies these questions - in close collaboration with organizations involved - to specific settings, such as Dutch municipalities and NGOs working on the labor market integration of refugees and in the youth care sector, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Liesbet Heyse is the Secretary to the SCOOP board as well as a board member of the Dutch Sociological Association, and a member of the ICS.
Specific research themes:
- Labormarket integration of refugees
- Professionalization and performance of international (humanitarian) nonprofit organizations
- Public sector organizations and public sector reform
- Humanitarian crisis and aid provision.
Expertise
Sociology
- Projects: 04.04 Roots and routes to migrants’ economic participation in the Netherlands: the constraining and facilitating impact of home and host society contexts (1970-2021)04.05 Sustainable Labor Market Integration of First Generation Migrant Groups: The Quest for the ‘Migrant-Organization Fit’ 05.06 Urban Collective Living Arrangements: Golden Key to Sustainable Communities?05.07 The impact of volunteer initiatives for informal language learning on the integration of migrant newcomers06.05 Informal Social Networks and Organizational Inclusion: The Invisible Minority’s Dilemma07.05 Sustainable Collaborative Networks: Design, Dynamics, and Decay of Cooperation in a Multilevel Organizational Field07.06 Cross-Border Network Governance for Sustainable Training in Health Care07.07 The role of organizational diversity approaches and employee diversity ideologies in LGBTI+ inclusion in organizations07.09 “Diverse We Stand!” Organizational Leadership Diversity and Sustainable Value Creation in Periods of Crisis09.04: Cooperation Decay in Organizations13.06 Sustainable cooperation for resilient societies: synthesis of social mechanisms
