Hennie Boeije (PhD, sociologist) is coordinator at Nivel of the research program into people with chronic illness and disability. 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 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.