Renate Buisman is an assistant professor at the Institute of Education and Child Studies, Leiden University.

More information about Renate Buisman

Short cv

• Assistant professor, research group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies, Leiden University (2020-current) 
• Postdoctoral researcher, Clinical Child and Family Studies, VU university, Amsterdam (2019-2020)
• PhD-candidate, research group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies, Leiden University (2015-2019). Doctoral thesis: Getting to the heart of child maltreatment: a multidimensional investigation using an extended family design. Supervised by prof.dr. Lenneke Alink and prof.dr. Marianne Bakermans-Kranenburg
• MSc Youth, Education, and Society, Utrecht University (cum laude)
• BSc Educational Sciences at Utrecht University

Research

Renate’s research focuses on stress and child maltreatment with a special focus on the intergenerational transmission of child maltreatment and its psychobiological mechanisms.

In her dissertation, she investigated the etiology and sequelae of child maltreatment by concurrently examining processes at different levels of functioning (i.e., cognitive-affective, physiological and behavioral) in an extended family design. After her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at VU university Amsterdam on a project investigating the neurobiological correlates of paternal caregiving.

Currently, Renate works as an assistant professor within the research group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies, Leiden University.

Current research projects

• Fathers in the spotlight: the role of stress and childhood trauma in first-time fathers
• Parenting under stress:  an examination of the role of acute stress and empathy in negative parenting in an experimental setting.
• Stress under the skin: investigation of the applicability of wearable biosensor devices to detect changing levels of emotional states and behaviors in parents and children in a daily setting.

Teaching

Bachelor

• Training in Research practices
• Introduction to developmental psychology (lectures)
• Minor Child abuse and neglect: a life course perspective (seminars)

Master

• Child abuse and neglect: Neurobiological consequences and interventions (seminars)
• Preventie, family mediation en behandeling in de forensische context (lectures and seminars)
• Thesis and internship supervision

Grants

• Starters grant (2023) for the project 'Fathers in the spotlight: the role of stress and childhood trauma in first-time fathers’  
• NVO grant (2023) for the project ‘Vaderschap in de eerste 1000 dagen na een verleden van kindermishandeling: een ‘mixed methods’ onderzoek naar stress, welzijn en opvoedgedrag’
• Leids Universitair Fonds and Jo Kolk studiefonds (2018). Grant for study trip to University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
• Travel and participation grant (2016) for the 4th Haruv International PhD Workshop on Child Maltreatment, Jerusalem, Israel

Workdays

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday

Publications