Biographies
Griet Roets has a master (2000) and a PhD in Educational Sciences (2008), and is currently Associate Professor in Social Work affiliated to the Department of Social Work and Social Pedagogy, and member of the core team of the inter-disciplinary research consortium of the Urban Academy at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests include social work in relation to social inequalities of disability, poverty, and place/space, conceptualisations of citizenship and the history of the welfare state, socio-spatial perspectives in social work, and qualitative research methodologies.
Dries Cautreels graduated as a pedagogue in 2005 at Ghent University, more specifically at the special education-disability studies department. He then started his carrier at Heder ((opens in a new window)www.heder.be); a large Antwerp-based care organization providing (specialized and very diverse) care and support to children, youngsters and adults with multiple disabilities. Dries started working as a pedagogue, the last years he was director responsible for the support-policy. Dries started his PhD in March 2022 as a member of the Academic Workspace on Deinstitutionalisation. In his research, he will focus on processes of ‘professionalisation’ in order to reconsider ‘institutional professional cultures and logics’ as a central theme and conceptualise de-institutionalised professionalism as a vital prerequisite to realise deinstitutionalisation.