Our research aims to advance our understanding of parenting and parent-child relationships within the family, of education, special education, child and family welfare, and long-term care for children and adults with a disability.
We use knowledge from EFS itself, but also from psychology, neuroscience and social sciences. We use a variety of research methods, such as experiments, longitudinal questionnaire research, observations, interviews and normative-ethical reflection. The research groups are part of the Learning sciences and Child rearing research programs of LEARN! research institute, and of the Amsterdam Public Health institute.