European Society on Family Relations (ESFR)
ESFR is an interdisciplinary scientific association for European research on families and family relations.
Its purpose is to serve as a network, to support and to link family research as well as to exchange its results.
It has been established as a federation of family researchers and of family research institutes within Europe in the first place, but ESFR also welcomes researchers and institutes outside of Europe as affiliates.
The organisation was founded in Nijmegen, in The Netherlands, in late 2002
Mission Statement
The European Society on Family Relations (ESFR) represents a multidisciplinary, non-profit organization of family researchers.
The Society aims to promote excellence in the scientific study of family relations in context by bringing together European family researchers.
The ESFR is devoted to the advancement of theoretical and empirically-oriented research at both the basic and applied levels.
In addition, the ESFR aims at fostering excellence in the training of family researchers at the institutional and individual levels.
The ESFR encourages scientific cooperation between family scientists from European countries and provides a forum for the international exchange of scientific knowledge concerning the family, including dissemination of the current state of the art knowledge in the field.
Moreover, it will serve as a platform for expert knowledge concerning family relations including the interface between research and policy on the local, national, and international levels. This information will be available for dissemination to individual families, corporate organizations and government agencies
Executive Board
Jorge Gato
President
Univeristy of Porto, Portugal
Jorge Gato is a Researcher in the Centre for Psychology at University of Porto, with an interest in the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals in different contexts, such as school, family, and work. He is a Systemic Family Therapist and an advocate for LGBTQ+ human rights.
jorgegato@fpce.up.pt
Uwe Uhlendorff
President-Elect
Treasurer
TU Dortmund University, Germany
Uwe Uhlendorff is professor for social pedagogy and social work at the Faculty of Education and Psychology/Dortmund University. His research is focused on families in need and social services based on qualitative and quantitative methods.
uwe.uhlendorff@tu-dortmund.de
Isabelle Albert
Past President
Univeristy of Luxemburg
Isabelle Albert (psychologist) is a research scientist at the University of Luxembourg in the Institute for Lifespan Development, Family and Culture, Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences. Her main research interests are in the field of (cross-)cultural, life-span developmental and family psychology. She has made major contributions to the areas of transgenerational family relations and transmission of values, cultural diversity, identity and belonging in the context of migration and ageing. She also holds a certificate in Systemic Family Counselling
isabelle.albert@uni.lu
Olga Węglerska – Komolka
Secretary
SWPS Univeristy, Poland
Olga is a doctor of psychology. She works at the SWPS University in Poznań. Her research focuses on human sexuality, primarily the issue of sexual violence against children and the sexuality of couples undergoing infertility treatment.
oweglerska@swps.edu.pl
Katharina Herlofson
Regular Board Member
Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Norway
Katharina Herlofson (sociologist) is a researcher at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is co-responsible for the Norwegian Life course, Ageing and Generations Study (NorLAG), and her main research interests include gender and intergenerational family relationships in ageing societies.
kather@oslomet.no
Christian Deindl
Regular Board Member
TU Dortmund University, Germany
Christian Deindl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at TU Dortmund University and the Head of the Institute of Sociology. He is a quantitative sociologist, and his research interests include intergenerational relations and transfers, informal care, aging, and life course research.
christian.deindl@tu-dortmund.de
Dominik Schoebi
Regular Board Member
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
DS is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Fribourg, and the director of the Institute of Family Research and Counseling. His work focuses on emotion and interaction dynamics in intimate relationships, and on physical and psychological violence in families.
dominik.schoebi@unifr.ch
Viorela Ducu Telegdi Csetri
Regular Board Member
Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
Viorela Ducu Telegdi Csetri holds a PhD in Sociology and earned her habilitation with a thesis focused on families as agents of social transformation. She is currently Director of CASTLE – the Center for the Study of Transnational Families at the College of Political, Administrative and Communication Sciences (FSPAC), Babeș-Bolyai University. She also serves as a faculty member in the Department of Social Work within the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work. Her research interests lie at the intersection of transnational and mixed-family studies, and the rights of children and young people.
viorela.telegdi@ubbcluj.ro
Rita Gouveia
Regular Board Member
University of Lisbon, Portugal
rita.gouveia@ics.ulisboa.pt
Margarida Henriques
Regular Board Member
Univeristy of Porto, Portugal
mrangelhenriques@gmail.com
Joanna Jarocka
Student Board Member
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Joanna Jarocka is a psychologist, psychotherapist and a PhD student at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), with an interests in normative and non-normative sexual development and child sexual abuse. She is in the process of becoming a certified Psychodynamic Psychotherapist.
joanna.jarocka@amu.edu.pl
Michele Falcone
Student Board Member
Catholic University of Milan, Italy
Michele is a PhD student at the Catholic University of Milan. His research interests primarily lie in social psychology, with a particular focus on discrimination and microaggressions perpetrated against migrant populations, as well as the developmental pathways and social contexts of juvenile delinquency.
michele.falcone1@unicatt.it
Scientific Committee
Gerardo Meil
Autonoma University, Madrid, Spain
Gerardo Meil is professor in Sociology at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. His research and publications focus on Family Sociology, Gender Violence, and Work-Family Balance Policy and its impact on family dynamics. For a full vita see his web-page at http://www.uam.es/gerardo.meil
gerardo.meil@uam.es
Kimmo Jokinen
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Kimmo Jokinen is a Professor of Family Studies in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. His areas of expertise are changing family forms, family transitions, families and well-being, and sociological family theories.
kimmo.j.jokinen@jyu.fi
Lenka Šulová
Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Prof. PhDr. Lenka Šulová, CSc. works at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In her work, she focuses on an individual’s psychological development in society and especially on partner and family relationships.
sulova.lenka@gmail.com
Allan Westerling
Roskilde University, Denmark
Allan Westerling is an associate professor in Social Psychology at Roskilde University, Denmark. His area of research includes fatherhood and parenthood and generally the issues and troubles of everyday family life. He works with mixed methods and takes a problem oriented, interdisciplinary approach.
allanw@ruc.dk
Katharina Herlofson
Norwegian Social Research (NOVA), Norway
Katharina Herlofson (sociologist) is a researcher at NOVA, Oslo Metropolitan University. She is co-responsible for the Norwegian Life course, Ageing and Generations Study (NorLAG), and her main research interests include gender and intergenerational family relationships in ageing societies.
kather@oslomet.no
Uwe Uhlendorff
Uwe Uhlendorff is professor for social pedagogy and social work at the Faculty of Education and Psychology/Dortmund University. His research is focused on families in need and social services based on qualitative and quantitative methods.
uwe.uhlendorff@tu-dortmund.de
Tina Miller
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Tina Miller is a Professor of Sociology at Oxford Brookes University who specialises in policy relevant research, impact and teaching with an expertise in family lives and theorizations/practises of gender. She specialises in micro- focused, longitudinal research on transitional periods in individual and family contexts. This includes in relation to motherhood and fatherhood transitions, parenthood, paid work and caring, constructions of gender, identities and ethnicities and equity in reproductive health service provision and experiences. These areas are underpinned by an expertise in qualitative (longitudinal) research methods, systematic reviews and research ethics.
tamiller@brookes.ac.uk
Dominik Schoebi
University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Dominik is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Fribourg, and the director of the Institute of Family Research and Counseling. His work focuses on emotion and interaction dynamics in intimate relationships, and on physical and psychological violence in families.
dominik.schoebi@unifr.ch
Daniela Barni
University of Bergamo, Italy
Daniela Barni is a psychologist and an Associate Professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Human and Social Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy. She is a member of the Family Studies and Research University Centre, Catholic University of Milan, Italy. Her main research interests are in family relationships, with particular attention to intergenerational relations and value transmission processes.
daniela.barni@unibg.it