Applied Social and Forensic Psychiatry

The research infrastructure for studies in the area of Applied Social and Forensic Psychiatry is financed by the Epidemiological and Social Psychiatric Research institute (ESPRi) and by Fivoor (Forensic Psychiatry) / Stichting Vrienden van Oldenkotte.

The Department of Psychiatry chairs the ESPRi network, which brings together mental health care organisations in the Southwestern part of the Netherlands and the municipality of Rotterdam. ESPRi aims to perform studies directly related to patient care in the participating mental health organisations and to public mental health throughout the wider Rotterdam region.

Principal Investigators

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  W.J.G. Hoogendijk, Professor

  Head of Department

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  C.L. Mulder Professor

  Professor of public mental health and social psychiatry

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  S.J. Roza MD

  Associate professor Forensic Psychiatry

Project Leaders

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  A.I. Wierdsma, PhD

  Methodologist

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  N.H. Grootendorst - van Mil, PhD

  Principle Investigator the iBerry Study

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  A.M. Kamperman PhD

  Assistant professor