Dr E.W.M. Rommes (Els)

Els Rommes studied public policy and public administration and received her PhD at Twente University in gender and STS in 2002. She has been guest professor at the faculty of computer science and feminist studies at Bremen University and at the department Gender and Diversity at University of Applied Sciences Rhein-Waal in Germany, and visiting researcher at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University and at SFU, both in Canada and at the faculty of interdisciplinary studies at the NTNU in Norway. From 2005 to 2010 Els Rommes was coordinator of the PhD education of the national STS research school WTMC (science, technology and modern culture). She has worked at Gender and Diversity Studies since 2002 and is founder and coordinator of the international master specialization ‘diversities in youth care’ since 2015. She participated in EU funded projects SIGIS (Strategies of Inclusion of Gender in the Information Society) ‘IMAGES’, ‘Motivation’, ‘UseITSmartly’, 'DignityFirm' and EIGE projects as well as having been PI of various large-scale national projects (e.g. ZonMW, NWO-WOTRO, Platform Beta Techniek, FWOS). Els Rommes has published extensively on gender and ICTs, occupational choices, youth and sexualities and transcultural (mental) health care. She has been a consultant for various commercial, governmental and European research groups and organizations and member of various boards, program committees and review committees.