dr. Elke Veirman (PhD)

CRIG member
Elke Veirman


Postdoctoral researcher – Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences (UGent)
Principal investigator: Prof. Stefaan Van Damme (PhD)
 

Research focus

Elke Veirman is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher on the RIZIV-INAMI WD-FAB project (psychometric validation of the Dutch and French Work-Disability Functional-Assessment-Battery) and the H2020 Sleep Revolution project (development and validation of the European Sleep Questionnaire). 
Furthermore, she has a particular interest in sleep health and wellbeing, related to

  • healthy sleep and sleep in acute and chronic medical diseases

  • sleep in children and adolescents and its interaction with parental sleep 

  • sleep in challenging work environments

Her line of research is mainly focused on 

  • broader questions that challenge research in psychological assessment in general

  • the development, evaluation, and optimization of psychological assessment in clinical and health psychology practice, psycho-oncology, and sleep

  • the assessment and treatment of sleep disorders

Her teaching experience is related to 

  • health psychology (e.g., theories of behavioral change, health action process approach, motivational interviewing, biopsychosocial and contextual perspective)

  • psychodiagnostics (e.g., non(cognitive) tests and questionnaires)
     

Biography

  • MSc in Clinical Psychology (Ghent University)
  • PhD in Psychology (Ghent University)
  • Inter-University Certificate in Psycho-Oncology (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Cedric Hèle Institute)
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (UZ Leuven, Belgian Association for Sleep research and Sleep medicine)
     

Contact & links

  • Lab address: Ghent Health Psychology Lab, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 
    B-9000 Gent, Belgium
  • LinkedIn
  • ORCID
  • ResearchGate
  • Elke Veirman is interested to receive invitations for talks or presentations