Hennie Boeije (PhD, sociologist) is coordinator at Nivel of the research programme into people with chronic illness and disability. Within this programme studies are being done into quality of life, self-management and integrated care, societal participation including employment and care for the elderly. The research group takes an interest in people with a motor or sensory disability as well as intellectual disabilities. Her main interest lies in the field of identity, life course, resilience and coping in adversity including health restrictions. For fifteen years she was an associate professor in qualitative research methods in the social sciences at Utrecht University. Here she gained extensive experience with reviews of qualitative studies and mixed studies reviews. Under her (co-)supervision several PhD-graduations took place. Hennie published academic books and numerous papers in the field of qualitative research methodology and health care and related issues.