Eva Borkhuis

Eva is one of our PhD candidates for the Healthy Start ambition ‘Mental well-being of youth’. Her research explores the most important factors that influence mental well-being of youth in the Netherlands. She employs a bottom-up, holistic approach by exploring youth perspectives: how children and adolescents define and perceive mental well-being and what (environmental) challenges and resources they identify as impacting their mental well-being. Eva uses methods such as literature reviews, focus groups, co-creation, and co-analyses.

Supervised by Pauline Jansen, Ruth van der Hallen, Danielle Remmerswaal, and Ryan Muetzel, Eva’s goal is to provide actionable insights for both research and practice, aligned with the experiences of youth today, and thereby contribute to empowering youth and improving mental well-being across the Netherlands.