Judith van de Wetering

Judith works as Healthy Start Fellow (postdoc) on the Ambition Youth Participation and Involvement. She is interested in how youth are affected by and can contribute to societal challenges (e.g., climate change, polarization). Her goal is to contribute to transdisciplinary research that recognizes youth’s potential to be transformative frontrunners in society.

During her PhD project (2020-2024, Department of Psychology, Utrecht University) Judith studied how interventions that harness adolescents’ motives for autonomy and peer status can promote their climate-friendly behavior. Before her PhD, Judith obtained her bachelor’s degree in Psychology (2018) and research master’s degree in Development and Socialisation in Childhood and Adolescence (2020, cum laude) at Utrecht University.