PhD Place: Digital Lifestyle Interventions for Financially Weak Groups

Would you wish to contribute to decreasing well being inequalities by co-creating, evaluating, and optimizing an tailored digital well being intervention (i.e. a Combined Lifestyle Intervention, CLI) that actually aligns with individuals’s on a regular basis realities? As a PhD candidate on this undertaking, you’ll work on an revolutionary, systems-oriented, and participatory analysis undertaking during which monetary help and life-style help are built-in for individuals who battle to make ends meet. You could have the chance to mix scientific analysis with societal influence, in shut collaboration with municipalities, professionals, and folks with lived expertise.

Financial insecurity negatively impacts well being and well-being by power stress. These elements typically reinforce each other, inflicting individuals to enter a downward spiral during which obese and weight problems are extremely prevalent amongst financially weak teams. Although mixed life-style interventions (CLIs) and digital well being options have vital potential, they’re not often designed for or with individuals experiencing monetary difficulties. This typically leads to low participation charges, excessive dropout, and restricted effectiveness. A holistic and customized strategy—integrating monetary and life-style help, co-developed with the goal group, and taking into consideration societal context, residing circumstances, and accessible assets—is due to this fact important to realize sustainable influence.

The intention of this undertaking is to co-create, consider, and optimize an tailored digital CLI with the goal group that helps life-style change for individuals who battle financially. By integrating help throughout a number of life domains into the digital CLI and embedding it inside the native context, we try for a multi-level programs strategy to bettering well being and well-being. The undertaking follows an built-in strategy consisting of 4 work packages. First, we are going to map the advanced system surrounding monetary difficulties and life-style conduct. These insights will kind the idea for creating a digital CLI tailor-made to completely different person profiles. Finally, the tailored digital CLI might be examined and evaluated, producing insights for additional optimization and scaling.

Your duties and obligations

• Mapping system dynamics associated to monetary issues, life-style conduct, and well being;
• Identifying elements that contribute to and co-developing a digital CLI for individuals who battle to make ends meet;
• Evaluating and optimizing a personalised digital CLI prototype;
• Conducting participatory analysis with individuals and stakeholders;
• Analyzing qualitative and quantitative knowledge and publishing leads to peer-reviewed scientific journals;
• Actively collaborating with tutorial and societal companions and contributing to information sharing.

Your office

The analysis is embedded inside the Chair Group of Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles, led by Prof. Dr. Harm Veling. You might be supervised by Dr. Annemien Haveman (promotor; Wageningen University), Dr. Ayla Schwarz (Wageningen University), Dr. Monique Simons (Wageningen University), and Dr. Jantien van Berkel (Utrecht University, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences).

The Chair Group of Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles research consumption conduct and life-style patterns of people and teams from an interdisciplinary perspective. The group focuses on bettering understanding of the determinants of wholesome consumption and existence, and on investigating intervention methods that help conduct change and promote long-term well being. A socio-ecological perspective is central, acknowledging the interplay between particular person, social, and environmental elements.