Anja Machielse
Professor
- a.machielse@uvh.nl
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prof. dr.
- External positions
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from 1 May 2025Chair Scientific Advisory Committee "Een tegen eenzaamheid",The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sportfrom 1 December 2024Supervisory board member,Nationaal Ouderenfondsfrom 1 January 2023Member of Programme Committee Day Activities for People with Dementia & Reablement,ZonMwfrom 1 December 2022Chair supervisory board,Avoordfrom 1 January 2022Board member Socrates foundation,Humanistisch Verbondfrom 1 January 2020Member of nomination committee Humanistic Spiritual Counsellors,Humanistisch Verbondfrom 1 January 2020 until 1 January 2025Member of Social Trials Monitoring Committee,ZonMwfrom 1 January 2018 until 1 January 2022Supervisory board member,AvoordUnknown role ,from 1 January 2018 until 1 January 2025The Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sportfrom 1 January 2015Loneliness policy advisor,Gemeente Rotterdam
Profile
Anja Machielse is professor emeritus of Humanism and Social Resilience and endowed professor Social Resilience of Older Adults. She studied philosophy at the University of Amsterdam and the Erasmus University Rotterdam and received her Ph.D. at Utrecht University.
Her work focuses on the social embeddedness of human beings and the significance of social relationships, both for personal life and the wider community. The tension between individual autonomy and the demands of the social environment is central to this. Important themes in her work are social isolation and loneliness, social resilience, existential problems, and meaning in life. Her research into older adults emphasizes (social) resilience, meaning in life, and promoting social recognition.