Alice de Boer

Alice de Boer is a Professor of Social Inequality and Informal Help at the Faculty of Social Sciences at VU University Amsterdam. She holds an endowed chair and is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Social Research in The Hague. She is affiliated with Eurocarers and JMZPro, advocating for carers and young carers' professionals.

Education: BSc in Household Economics (Wageningen University, 1990); PhD in Social Geography (Utrecht University, 1999).

Research focuses on informal caregiving dynamics, social inequality, gender roles in care-work balance, and ICT's role in elderly social integration. Her work uses mixed methods, including focus groups and longitudinal studies, to analyze caregiving impacts on labor markets and wellbeing.

Key research trends include exploring socioeconomic disparities in caregiving burdens, economic implications of informal care, and policy interventions to support carers. Her studies often involve collaboration with governmental agencies like the Dutch Ministry of Health and NWO-funded projects.

Grants include multiple awards from the Ministry of Health and NWO for research on young carers and caregiving economics. She has supervised 2 PhD theses.

Labs/Teams: Core researcher at the SCP (Social Cultural Planning) unit, leading large-scale national surveys on informal care.