Toon Vercauteren

(he/him)

BACKGROUND

Toon Vercauteren is a PhD researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). His research focuses on quantitative comparative study of secondary data from databases like SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe), EQLS (European Quality of Life Survey) and ELSA (English Longitudinal Study Of Ageing) about the exclusion of multidimensional civic participation in later life at a micro-, meso- and macro levels. 

 

Toon has a Bachelor’s degree in teaching (Dutch-history-economics) and a Master’s Degree in Adult Educational Sciences from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He started his PhD in 2021 and is currently working in the CIVEX project which is focused on the social exclusion of civic engagement of a diverse older population. Toon was also involved in the CALICO and SEE ME projects as a job student at the VUB.  

KEY PUBLICATIONS

  • Vercauteren, T., Van Regenmortel, S., Näsman, M., Nyqvist, F., Brosens, D., Serrat, R., & Dury, S. (2024). Multi-dimensional civic engagement of older Europeans: A latent class analysis. Ageing and Society, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X2400062X
  • Juma, F., Fernández-Sainz, A., Vercauteren, T., Stegen, H., Häussermann, F., De Donder, L., & Delaruelle, K. (2025). Intensity and changes in grandparental caregiving: Exploring the link to loneliness in Europe. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 128, 105630. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2024.105630
  • Ristolainen, H., Van Regenmortel, S., De Donder, L., Vercauteren, T., Lehtiö, J., & Tiilikainen, E. (2024). Patterns of Multidimensional Social Exclusion Among Older Home Care Services Recipients. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 79(9), gbae118. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbae118
  • Vercauteren, T. (2024). Shaping Ageing: Social Transformations and Enduring Meanings Adriana Teodorescu and Dan Chiribucă (eds), Routledge, New York, 2022, 196 pp., pbk £38.99, ISBN 13: 9780367495954. Ageing and Society, 44(2), 491-493. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X23000739

For a full overview: Pure Databank.  

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4142-5745 

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

  • Civic participation and engagement 
  • Social inclusion and exclusion 
  • Life story interviews, Latent class analysis, Statistical analysis using SPSS 

GET IN TOUCH

Email: toon.vercauteren@vub.be  

Telephone: +32 497 65 31 48