Charlotte Van Campfort
(she/her)
BACKGROUND
Charlotte started a PhD in social health sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2025. Her research will focus, among other things, on the role of social, cultural, and physical environments interact to shape the experiences of individuals and communities during times of serious illness, caregiving, loss, death, dying and grief.
‘COCO_ENV’ is an interdisciplinary research program (IRP) of the Compassionate Communities Expertise Centre (COCO). COCO is an interdisciplinary research consortium of eight research groups that, through research and knowledge exchange, aims to create a more compassionate society in which communities have the capacity and knowledge to provide care for their members in times of serious illness, death, dying and loss. In addition, Charlotte is part of the End-of-Life Care Research Group at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the University of Ghent.
Before starting her PhD, she obtained a Master in Adult Educational Sciences (2021) and an Educational Master (2023) from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and already worked as a quality assurance officer for the Adult Educational Sciences programme and scientific assistant at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel within the research groups ‘Society and Ageing Research Lab (SARLab)’ and ‘PArticipation and Learning in Detention (PALD)’.
KEY PUBLICATIONS
Van Campfort, C., Ielegems, E., Petermans, A., Smetcoren, A. & De Donder, L. (in preparation). Ageing well in place: a systematic review on the role of housing on the wellbeing of older adults. To be submitted to Journal of Housing and the Built Environment.
Van Campfort, C. (2025). Care Homes in a Turbulent Era: Do They Have a Future? Pat Armstrong and Susan Braedley (eds), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023, 184 pp., hbk £76.50, ISBN: 978 180392 581 3. Ageing and Society, 1–3. doi:10.1017/S0144686X24000552
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
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E-mail: Charlotte.Maria.Van.Campfort@vub.be
Telephone: +32 491078558