
Ute Bültmann
RUGCore-applicant
Title(s)Professor Community & Occupational Medicineedicine Medicine
First nameUte
InitialsU
Last NameBültmann
FTE0.4 fte/year for 10 years
Brief summary of research over last 5 years / academic profile
International visibility, activities, prizes, scholarships etc.
- Bültmann has published extensively in flagship journals of the public and occupational health domain, such as the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, American Journal of Public Health, and the European Journal of Public Health.
- She co-edited with Professor Johannes Siegrist the new Springer Nature “Handbook of Disability, Work and Health” that is among the top used publications on SpringerLink that concern one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Bültmann & Siegrist, 2020)
- Bültmann has a strong national and international academic network, as shown by collaborations with researchers from the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, the USA and Canada. She is affiliated with the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI-KNAW; since 2016), Visiting Professor at the National Research Centre for the Working Environment in Copenhagen, Denmark (since 2014); Guest Researcher at the Karolinska Institutet, Division of Insurance Medicine, Department of Clinical Neuroscience in Stockholm, Sweden (since 2012), and Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Work & Health (IWH) in Toronto, Canada (since 2007; on hold since 2017 due to appointment in IWH’s Scientific Advisory Committee).
- She serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation (Q1), has hosted the 2nd International Scientific Conference on Work Disability Prevention and Integration (ICOH-WDPI) with >200 attendants in 2012, and has organized/chaired >20 symposia on work and health at international conferences.
- Bültmann has been keynote/invitational speaker at many international scientific meetings and for public and governmental bodies, including: two opening keynote lectures in 2019 on “Work and Health from a lifecourse perspective” (5th ICOH Work Disability Prevention and Integration) and “Occupational factors in Healthy Ageing” (Dutch Epidemiology Conference); the 8th European Congress of Epidemiology (2015), the 11th Stress Research Conference (2013), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Employment Labour and Social Affairs (OECD, Paris, 2014), and the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA, Berlin, 2013).
- She is Vice-President of the section “Social Security, Work and Health” of the European Public Health Association (since 2016); appointed member of the Scientific Committee of the Work Environment Research Fund of the Danish Ministry of Employment (since 2018), from 2016-2018 she served on the Health Council of the Netherlands, committee “Health and working longer”.
- Bültmann obtained a Rosalind Franklin Fellowship for talented international researchers at the University of Groningen (2007) for research on mental health and work, and a Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies International Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship (2016) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada to advance research on work and mental health by integrating a life course perspective.