Honours & awards
Total approx. £2.000.000.
2019 European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA). Research Award. Clinical Trials of Transactional Analysis.
2019 European Association of Transactional Analysis (EATA). Research Award. Review of Transactional Analysis.
2018 Metanoia Institute. Internal Research Award. Meaning-centered psychotherapy for cancer patients: a pilot study.
2017 TimeOut Magazine. Supporting my research line has been called “one of 28 Good deeds in London 2017”.
2016 University of Roehampton. Internal Research Award. Meaning-centered therapy for cancer patients: a feasibility study.
2014 University of Roehampton. Internal Research Award. Coping with chronic pain: an in-depth study on the lived experience of pain.
2014 Research grant. The Health Foundation. Scaling up improvement. Humanistic counselling in CAMHS: a nation-wide multi-centre randomized controlled trial study. (Co-applicant.)
2012 Brandstof. ‘Most talented young philosopher in the Netherlands’. Winner of both the audience prize (70% voted for me) and the jury prize (unanimous).
2010 Alpe d’Huzes / Dutch Cancer Society. Research grant for developing and testing the training ‘Living meaningfully with cancer’.
2009 Leidse Studenten Ekklesia. Research grant for developing existential group training.
2008 René Vogels Stichting/ Dutch Association for Oncology. Educational grant
2007 Dutch Cancer Society. Continuation research grant for PhD-study. Opening the psychological black box in genetic counselling.
2006 Universiteit voor Humanistitek. Leo Polak Scriptie Prijs (National Thesis Award) for master thesis in philosophy.
2005 Interreligieuze Werkplaats/stichting Interreligieuze Dialoog. First prize. Essay title: ‘Tussen zwijgen en schreeuwen in, een visie op het Nederlandse integratiedebat’.
2003 Serge Heederik National Award for Philosophy. First prize. Essay title: ‘De wereld zal nooit meer zijn zoals hij was, filosoferen na 11 september en 6 mei’.
2001 Serge Heederik National Award for Philosophy. Honourable mention. Essay title: ‘Op zoek naar menselijke waardigheid en ethiek, een kritische beschouwing van de postmoderne moraal.’