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Baukje Schippers (May 1981) has varied experience in professional care for people with disabilities. From 1999-2003 she studied physiotherapy at the Saxion Hogeschool in Enschede. During this study she worked as a staff member with non-congenital brain injury. Subsequently she worked as a physiotherapist, mainly also with people with non- congenital brain injury. From 2004 she studied pedagogical sciences at the University of Utrecht, a study that she completed in 2007 with the master's in Child Rehabilitation - and Disability Care. During this study she worked as a staff member with people with and hearing impairment and people with a intellectual disability and challenging behaviour. From 2007 to 2013 she worked as an child psychologist at various care organizations for people with intellectual disabilities, of which the latest years at ’s Heeren Loo. From March 2013 she conducted her PhD research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. C. Schuengel. The results of this research are described in this dissertation. Currently she works as a postdoc researcher at the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Intellectual Disabillities’, 's Heeren Loo and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a senior policy advisor at Advisium 's Heeren Loo where she develops and implements policy on involuntary care and other care-related themes.
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