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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Curriculum Vitae
Marlies Welbie was born on July 31, 1978, in Waalwijk, Netherlands. After graduating from the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences as a Physical Therapist in 2003, she started working as a physical therapist in Amsterdam Osdorp, a deprived area of Amsterdam, because she was very interested in the effect low health literacy of native and migrant patients would have on the effectiveness of physical therapy. Because, at that time, little was known about this subject in the Netherlands, she started her education as a Clinical Health Scientist (Clinical Health Science, Physical Therapy Science in the Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Utrecht, while continuing work as a physical therapist. The central theme during this study was exploring the barriers and facilitators of effective physical therapy in low health literate patient populations. Her Master thesis resulted in a Dutch publication (first author) and she received her Master of Science degree in 2008. During the last year of her Master of Science education, she combined her work as a physical therapist with working as a lecturer at the Master’s Program in Physical Therapy, specializing in Psychosomatic Physical Therapy, of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences.
After she graduated as Master of Science, she started working as a research assistant at the University of Applied Sciences, Rotterdam, in the research group Work and Health and later on in the research group Primary Care. In 2009, she started working as a researcher in the research group Lifestyle and Health of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences where she got the opportunity to raise funding and develop the research project that resulted in this current PhD thesis. Since then, she has combined research with lecturing activities, curriculum development and policy tasks which all are related to the subject of her research. In 2016, she changed to the research group Innovation in Health Care Processes in Pharmacology of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences to share her knowledge about health literacy and qualitative research methodology.
Currently, she is working as a researcher in the research group Methodology of Practice-Based Research of the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences. She focusses on qualitative research methods, research integrity, functional and effective collaboration between
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