Patricia Wijntuin
In 2019 Patricia joined the Research Group Decent Work at Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. Her research expertise centers on two main areas: diversity and inclusion within organizational contexts and the ways space structures interactions between people particularly regarding gender and race.
Patricia is also affiliated with the Social Work program where her education activities focus on themes related to diversity in the broadest sense. Four years ago she developed the minor Food Journeys in which food is used as a lens to study and analyze societal questions. She also works as lecturer-researcher at the Utrecht University School of Governance.
During her doctoral research, Patricia was a lecturer at the Social Work Institute, and a municipal councillor for the political party GroenLinks in the municipality of Utrecht. She has been working at Utrecht University since 2015, at the Utrecht School of Public Administration and Organisation Science.
Patricia is interested in the way in which space & place form the actions and interactions of people and structures, with a special focus on ethnicity and gender. In 2018, she was the project leader responsible for the design and implementation of research into women working during their menopause, which was carried out at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht. She began with a follow-up study in September 2019. She will also be starting as a Postdoc at the Research group Organising Decent Work. With her Postdoc position, she will be also be preparing a study into the practice salons of black hairdressers.
Fields of expertise
- Diversity in management and organisations
- Qualitative research
- Moroccan-Dutch youth
