Hennie Boeije (PhD, sociologist) is coordinator at Nivel of the research program Research program Care Demand of the Chronically Ill and Disabled. This program consist of a large amount of studies into quality of life, self-management, integrated care and societal participation, including employment and care for the elderly.
Her research team takes an interest in people with a motory or sensory disability as well as intellectual disabilities. Their main interest lies in the field of identity, life course, resilience and coping in adversity, including health, restrictions.

For her research, her team makes extensive use of:
- the National Panel of the Chronically Ill and Disabled (NPCD), a nationwide Dutch panel consisting of over 3,500 people living independently with a chronic condition (a physical disability), established to gather information on the consequences of chronic disease and disability from a patient perspective
- the Panel Together Living (PSL), with over 500 people with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities aged 15 years or older, and over 350 relatives, established to gather information on n the care and living situation of people with a intellectual disability and their relatives, from their perspective.

For fifteen years Hennie was an associate professor in qualitative research methods in social sciences at Utrecht University. Here she gained extensive experience in conducting review research of qualitative studies and of mixed studies. Under her (co-)supervision several PhD-students graduated. Hennie published academic books and numerous papers on qualitative research methodology and on healthcare and related issues.