Marleen Groeneveld obtained her PhD at the Child and Education department, at Leiden University, focusing on professional childcare. She conducted two studies concerning (1) quality of center-based and home-based childcare, and associations with cortisol and wellbeing of children, and (2) a randomized controlled trial directed at enhancing childcare quality. After obtaining her PhD, she started working as a Postdoc researcher in two large longitudinal studies that focused on gender socialization in the family and school context both (financed by the ERC). In the first project, she supervised four PhD students, who all received their PhD’s in 2015. In the current longitudinal project, she supervises five PhD students. In addition, Marleen is involved in a study focusing on gender socialization of young children in Dutch ethnic majority and ethnic minority families, supervising one PhD student. Besides these research project, Marleen is involved in the project ‘Children in the City’, focused on language stimulation of children with a migration background in primary schools in The Hague.

Academic Career

• Assistant professor at the Societal Challenges Lab, Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University college. (2018-present)

• Assistant professor at the Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group, Leiden University. (2012-2018)

• Postdoc researcher at the Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group, Leiden University. Research project: Gender differences in the socialization of disruptive behaviour in early childhood (2010-2012)
• Postdoc researcher at the Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group, Leiden University. Research project: Relations between children's wellbeing in daycare, child variables, process quality and context variables (2010-2012)
• PhD. student at the Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group, Leiden University. Research project: Quality in Home-based childcare: Impact and Improvement. Supervised by prof. dr. M.H. van IJzendoorn, dr. H.J. Vermeer, and dr. M. Linting (2006-2010).
• MSc. Education, cum laude, Parenting, Child Care and Development programme group, Leiden University. Master's thesis: Child maltreatment: Characteristics of the perpatrator. Supervised by prof. dr. M.H. van IJzendoorn and dr. S.N. Brilleslijper (2006)

Academic awards

• Award ISED. Award for the most excellent dissertation in the field of educational science Institute for the Study of Education and human Development. (2011)
• Spinoza scholarship. Centre for Child and Family Studies and Data Theory, Leiden University (2006)

Teaching activities

• Lectures: Professional childcare, Fathers
• Werkgroups: SPSS, Inleiding in de pedagogische en onderwijswetenschappen 1
• Assistance Recent Advances in Developmental Psychopathology
• Assistance bachelor en master students

Research areas and activities

• Gender differences in the socialization of disruptive behaviour in early childhood
• Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting – Child Care (VIPP-CC) in home-based childcare
• Children's wellbeing and cortisol levels in childcare centers and home-based childcare
• Child maltreatment: National prevalence study of child maltreatment [ Nationale Prevalentiestudie Mishandeling van Kinderen en Jeugdigen (NPM-2005)]

See Dutch profile Marleen Groeneveld