Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles
The chair group Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles, led by Harm Veling, studies consumption and lifestyles of individuals and groups from an interdisciplinary perspective. We embed these insights in the design, evaluation and implementation of interventions to enable healthy and sustainable behaviours.
Research themes
Inequality, diversity and social change
Through our research, we strive for a shift towards a more inclusive and equal society in which all are able to achieve a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
Food transition
We refine and improve on state-of-the-art approaches to behaviour change, and go beyond such approaches by examining new ways of promoting durable adoption of health behaviours.
Interventions for healthy lifestyles
We refine and improve on state-of-the-art approaches to behaviour change, and go beyond such approaches by examining new ways of promoting durable adoption of health behaviours.
Education
Education by Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles
The chair group Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles contributes to multiple BSc and MSc programmes, from Business and Consumer Studies to Data Science for Food and Health, and we contribute to five minor programmes. Our courses include topics like psychology, data science, and sociology. It is also possible to do your thesis or internship with out chair group, and we offer PhD-positions as well.
Publications & Projects
We aim to produce knowledge and insight in two main fields of inquiry: understanding how health behaviours and healthy lifestyles arise among various groups, and how (food) policies and other interventions can change individual behaviors and consumption to benefit healthy lifestyles. We publish our results on a regular basis in scientific journals, professional journals, scientific and popular books, and proceedings.
Chair Holder
Harm Veling is professor and chair holder of Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles. In his research, he integrates fundamental psychological research on changing preferences and confidence in value-based decision-making with research on the importance of promoting direct positive experiences to facilitate behavioural change. Furthermore, he is interested in exploring opportunities to apply insights from this work in policy to promote behavioural change in the realms of health, sustainability, and safety.
prof.dr. HP (Harm) Veling
Professor / Chairholder
People of Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles
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