Daniela Grunow, Dr. University of Amsterdam - Department of Sociology and Anthropology Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185 1012 DK Amsterdam The Netherlands email: d.grunow[at]uva.nl

Daniela Grunow is the director and principal investigator of the APPARENT project. She is also an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam and Associate Fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University. She defended her Ph.D. thesis Convergence, Persistence and Diversity in Male and Female Careers at Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg (Germany) in 2006. From 2006 - 2008 Daniela was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, Yale University (CT, USA). During her Ph.D. phase she served as a Research Associate in the GLOBALIFE project at Bielefeld University and Bamberg University (Germany), 2001 - 2005. As a member of the DFG-Project The Household Division of Domestic Labor as a Process, 2005 - 2006, she engaged in developing longitudinal time-use measures and contributed to establishing a unique set of time-use measurement data on German couples. As the director and principal investigator of the APPARENT project she coordinates the cross-national cooperation with researchers in six European countries, collects original data on parental roles, norms and identities, and engages in comparative research within the APPARENT subprojects. download CV

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Kristina John, PhD candidate University of Amsterdam - Department of Sociology and Anthropology Kloveniersburgwal 48 1012 CX Amsterdam The Netherlands email: k.a.d.john[at]uva.nl

Kristina John is a PhD-candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She studied Social Sciences (including Sociology, Statistics, Political Science, Social Psychology and Industrial Organizational Psychology) at the University of Mannheim (Germany) and at the bilingual University of Ottawa (Canada) financed by the OBW-scholarship. In her diploma-thesis she developed a typology for gender policy regimes. She was a Teaching Assistant at the Chair for Empirical Methods (University of Mannheim) where she taught four courses in STATA, SPSS, Amos and Statistics. In 2009 she was a Research Assistant at the MZES (Mannheim). From 2008 - 2009 she was a Research Assistant at the University of Ottawa comparing citizenship policies. Before, she was a Research Assistant for almost three years at the German Microdata Lab (GESIS). Her research interests include qualitative and quantitative methods, comparative sociology and gender studies. As a junior researcher in the APPARENT project she will extract the political discourse and norms about father-and motherhood from mainstream media from the 1980s to 2010 across several European countries. download CV

Maria Reimann, PhD candidate University of Amsterdam - Department of Sociology and Anthropology Kloveniersburgwal 48 1012 CX Amsterdam The Netherlands email: m.w.reimann[at]uva.nl

Maria Reimann is a PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam. She studied ethnography and cultural anthropology at the University of Warsaw and the University of Copenhagen (ERASMUS scholarship). She defended her MA thesis “The good stepfather. A father figure or a friend?” at the University of Warsaw in February 2011. Maria’s main research interests include kinship and family, parenthood, medical anthropology, institutions and human agency, and qualitative methods. As a junior researcher in the APPARENT project, she will conduct in-depth interviews with Polish couples at the life course transition to parenthood. She will then compare the data with the data from other European countries of the project, focusing on the norms and practises of parenting and the gender division of labour. download CV

Gerlieke Veltkamp, Research Master student email:  g.veltkamp[at]student.uva.nl

Gerlieke Veltkamp is a Research Master student at the University of Amsterdam. She follows a mixed track of Sociology and Anthropology, using both qualitative and quantitative methods, with core specializations in ‘Health, Care and the Body’, ‘Institutions, Inequalities and Internationalisation’ and ‘Migration and Integration’. She works as an editor for the ‘Sociologie Magazine’. Gerlieke is furthermore employed in the forensic youth psychiatry sector in Amsterdam, where she is involved in benchmarking and policy writing. Previously, she was educated as a family therapist and she worked with youth and families with psychosocial problems in a forensic context. As a student research assistant in the APPARENT project, Gerlieke will focus on family professional perceptions of new parent’s roles and how parenting roles are negotiated, reproduced and shaped in expert-parent interactions in The Netherlands. download CV